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OpenClaw – Moltbot Renamed Again
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#213I understand what this does. I don't get the hype, but there are obviously 1000s of people who do. Who are these people? What is the analog for this corner of the market? Context: I'm a 47y/o developer who has seen and done most of the common and not-so-common things in software development. This segment reminds me of the hoards of npm evangelists back in the day who lauded the idea that you could download packages t…
cost.
the amount of things that before cost you either hours or real money went down to a chat with a few sentences.
it makes it suddenly possibly to scale an (at least semi-) savy tech person without other humans and that much faster.
this directly gives it a very tanglible value.
the "market" might not be huge for this and yes, its mostly youtubers and influencers that "get this". Mainly because the work they do is most impacted by it. And that obviously amplifies the hype.
but below the mechanics of quite a big chunk of "traditional" digital work changed now in a measurable way!
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Just curious, is there something specific about Moltbot that makes it a terrible name? Like any connotations or associations or something? Non-native speaker here, and I don't see anything particularly wrong with it that would warrant the hate it's gotten. (But I agree that OpenClaw _sounds_ better)
In many non-English languages it's a terrible name to pronounce. the T-B letters link in particular. Not all languages have silent letters like English, you actually have to pronounce them.
Every single letter in Moltbot would be pronounced in English.
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Interesting, I dont read claude the same way as clawd, but I'm based in Spain so I tend to read it as French or Spanish. I tend to read it as `claud-e` with an emphasis on the e at the end. I would read clawd as `claw-d` with a emphasis in the D, but yes i guess American English would pronounce them the same way. Edit: Just realized i have been reading and calling it after Jean-Claude Van Damme all this time. Happy f…
What do you mean an emphasis on the 'e'? As in claudé? The name Claude is pronounced with a silent 'e' in French, there is no 'e' to emphasize.
Now you're telling me I've been pronouncing it wrong in every possible case?!
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#216I understand what this does. I don't get the hype, but there are obviously 1000s of people who do. Who are these people? What is the analog for this corner of the market? Context: I'm a 47y/o developer who has seen and done most of the common and not-so-common things in software development. This segment reminds me of the hoards of npm evangelists back in the day who lauded the idea that you could download packages t…
I am with you on this one. I have gone through some of the use cases and seen pictures of people with dozens of mac minis stacked on a desk saying "if you aren't using this, you're already behind."
The more I see the more it seems underwhelming (or hype).
So I've just drawn the conclusion that there's something I'm missing.
If someone's found a really solid use case for this I would (genuinely) like to see it. I'm always on the lookout for ways to make my dev/work workflow more efficient.
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Yeah, keep it in a VM or a box you don't care about. If you're running it on your primary machine, you're a dumbass even if you turn on sandbox mode.
It's really easy to run this in a container. The upside is you get a lot of protection included. The downside is you're rebuilding the container to add binaries. The latter seems like a fair tradeoff. What I'll say about OpenClaw is that it truly feels vibe coded, I say that in a negative context. It just doesn't feel well put together like OpenCode does. And it definitely doesn't handle context overruns as well. Ult…
It is completely vibe coded. The author himself says he doesn't check the code.
https://x.com/Hesamation/status/2016712942545240203
Can't believe people are giving it full access to their MacOS user session. It's a giant vulnerability waiting to happen.
Sending an email with prompt injection is all it takes.
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#218Will now OpenAI legal team reach them and ask to change? So what's next XClaw? Are they getting paid to change name?
Apparently he phoned Sam and got the ok. Which TBF wouldn't be hard, OpenAI absolutely would not be able to defend the use of 'Open' in the name.
"Why should I change my name? He's the one who sucks."
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OpenClaw is now ClosedClaw - Priced from $99/mo for PromptProtectPlus > Countin me money!
Is this a reference to spongbob squarepants where Mr krabby likes money and clawdbot and everything is a crab too? https://getyarn.io/yarn-clip/81ecc732-ee7b-42c3-900b-b97479b... Hello I'm Mr Krabs and I like money. xD
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#220It's certainly unethical to have used the naming in order to get on the hype train. This was clearly a strategic decision.