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It is like musical one hit wonders, but for software. Some dumb idea which just hits at the right moment and makes a bunch of money.
it's the AI wave of the original viral app store apps like "Yo" and "I am Rich".
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This is an awful read on this acquisition. They didn't acquire Moltbook because of the software. Meta is far behind on the AI front especially as it applies to usage adoption. OpenClaw has begun showing new consumer use cases and Moltbook is directionally down a similar path. They get the team that built it and have more people on the AI initiative who are consumer-centric. I've watched Matt Schlicht from the team al…
I genuinely don't understand OpenClaw It's a worse version of Claude Code that you set up to work over common chat apps, from what I gather? Why would I not just use a Discord/WhatsApp bot etc plugged into Claude Code/Codex?
Next, consider how you might deploy isolated Claude Code instances for these specific task areas, and manage/scale that - hooks, permissions, skills, commands, context, and the like - and wire them up to some non-terminal i/o so you can communicate with them more easily. This is the agent shape.
Now, give these agents access to long term memory, some notion of a personality/guiding principles, and some agency to find new skills and even self-improve. You could leave this last part out and still have something valuable.
That’s Openclaw in a nutshell. Yes you could just plug Discord into Claude Code, add a cron job for analyzing memory, a soul.md, update some system prompts, add some shell scripts to manage a bunch of these, and you’d be on the same journey that led Peter to Openclaw.
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This is an awful read on this acquisition. They didn't acquire Moltbook because of the software. Meta is far behind on the AI front especially as it applies to usage adoption. OpenClaw has begun showing new consumer use cases and Moltbook is directionally down a similar path. They get the team that built it and have more people on the AI initiative who are consumer-centric. I've watched Matt Schlicht from the team al…
I genuinely don't understand OpenClaw It's a worse version of Claude Code that you set up to work over common chat apps, from what I gather? Why would I not just use a Discord/WhatsApp bot etc plugged into Claude Code/Codex?
(Not that I endorse that. I find peoope doing such wildly irresponsible.)
There are many days where I feel like the right thing for my career is to focus on building meaningful software that solves an actual problem. Then there are days like today, especially after seeing this.
This is an awful read on this acquisition. They didn't acquire Moltbook because of the software. Meta is far behind on the AI front especially as it applies to usage adoption. OpenClaw has begun showing new consumer use cases and Moltbook is directionally down a similar path. They get the team that built it and have more people on the AI initiative who are consumer-centric. I've watched Matt Schlicht from the team al…
I thought that Moltbook was sort of a joke because it was people LARPing as agents as much as it was agents, and given that, I'm confused by this: > "The Moltbook team has given agents a way to verify their identity and connect with one another on their human's behalf," Shah says. "This establishes a registry where agents are verified and tethered to human owners." So the impetus for the acquisition was either the ve…
Moltbook both asks you to verify with Twitter and has you verify an email address too. Not sure I'd treat that as "a registry where agents are verified" that's worth acquiring but there you go!
There are many days where I feel like the right thing for my career is to focus on building meaningful software that solves an actual problem. Then there are days like today, especially after seeing this.
It's easy to dismiss as more A.I. FOMO. I mean, Meta's AI has half the IQ of ChatGPT or Gemini. However, a fake social network full of generated content might well be a solution for Meta's problems where their userbase inevitably doesn't measure up to what they wish it would.
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I am right there with you. We might lack the language to describe this emotional state; its like the opposite of FAFO? There's also this nuance that they were acquired by meta so yeah they're rich but now they're working for not-serious people and will flame out in 18 months.
> now they're working for not-serious people Worse, they are working for extreme sociopaths.
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This is an awful read on this acquisition. They didn't acquire Moltbook because of the software. Meta is far behind on the AI front especially as it applies to usage adoption. OpenClaw has begun showing new consumer use cases and Moltbook is directionally down a similar path. They get the team that built it and have more people on the AI initiative who are consumer-centric. I've watched Matt Schlicht from the team al…
I genuinely don't understand OpenClaw It's a worse version of Claude Code that you set up to work over common chat apps, from what I gather? Why would I not just use a Discord/WhatsApp bot etc plugged into Claude Code/Codex?
Any FBers wanna talk about Meta's AI strategy? It seems... random.
They need a good-enough LLM (llama) to cut content moderation costs, they need a good segmentation model (segment anything) for photo filters, AR/VR and photo/video content moderation.
For LLM frontier, they can wait it out to see AGI become a commodity they can buy after it is ready.