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Re: Clawdbot - open source personal AI assistant

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Post by akmarinov »

saberience wrote: post #198
akmarinov wrote: post #133

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Peter Steinberger is a well respected developer that started out in the mobile dev community. He founded a company, then made an exit and is set for money, so he just does things for fun. Yes, he AI generated all of it, go through his articles at https://steipete.me/ to see how he does it, it’s definitely not “vibe coding”, he does make sure that what’s being output is solid. He was one of the people in the top chart…

How is he "well respected", based on what metric? Amount of vibe coded slop put out into the ecosystem? He sounds like someone who has just vibe coded shit until something stuck to the wall. I also find it hard to respect people who create things which are 99-100% coded by an LLM, with zero technical merit or skill. Again, just creating slop until something goes viral. As far as I can see Clawdbot is just more AI-slo…

Just the opposite, he has over 15 years of experience of providing third party frameworks for the iOS community, used in thousands of apps. He founded PSPDFKit, a library for working with PDFs and managed to make an exit of the company worth $100 million

He's written up hundreds of articles on different topics in the community and is very much a skilled developer, with tons of technical merit.

Now you come along with your small mind and a hard on for AI-hate and all you can comprehend is that nothing can challenge your world view so you reach out and attack what you don't understand. That just defines you as ignorant.

Re: Clawdbot - open source personal AI assistant

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Post by kristopolous »

edmundsauto wrote: post #235
kristopolous wrote: post #83

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You're just telling me common features. Those are just normal things now

What systems are making new skills for themselves? Not being snarky, I find this sort of self-teaching incredibly interesting but have only ever seen this approach

I literally hear about it a few times a week.

Re: Clawdbot - open source personal AI assistant

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Post by handoflixue »

kristopolous wrote: post #85
jason_tko wrote: post #77

I've seen many people say "I don't get the hype", so here's my attempt to explain it. I've been working in technology and software companies my entire life, but not as a developer. Two days ago, I submitted and had my first pull request merged to an open source project (Clawdbot) thanks to my AI assistant rei. A short story: rei suddenly stopped responding in some Slack channels. So I asked it to help me troubleshoot…

This is a thing you can enable on GitHub for any project. You just described a GitHub feature

What specific aspect of this is a GitHub feature? Can you link to the documentation for that feature?

The person you're replying to mentions a fairly large number of actions, here: "cloned the codebase, found the issue, wrote the fix, added tests. I asked it to code review its own fix. The AI debugged itself, then reviewed its own work, and then helped me submit the PR."

If GitHub really does have a feature I can turn on that just automatically fixes my code, I'd love to know about it.

Re: Clawdbot - open source personal AI assistant

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Post by mgdev »

bronco21016 wrote: post #226
mgdev wrote: post #192

This thing is cool except: 1) It chews through tokens. If you're on a metered API plan I would avoid it. I've spent $300+ on this just in the last 2 days, doing what I perceived to be fairly basic tasks. 2) It's terrifying. No directory sandboxing, etc. On one hand, it's cool that this thing can modify anything on my machine that I can. On the other, it's terrifying that it can modify anything on my machine that I ca…

> It chews through tokens. If you're on a metered API plan I would avoid it. I've spent $300+ on this just in the last 2 days, doing what I perceived to be fairly basic tasks. Didn’t Anthropic make it so you can’t use your Claude Code Pro/Max with other tools? Has anyone experienced a block because of that policy while using this tool? Also really curious what kind of tasks ran up $300 in 2 days? Definitely believe i…

I offhandedly set it up to do a weather alert every 4 hours during the big winter storm. Absent a well-specified API, I can only assume it was repeatedly doing a bunch of work to access some open API it discovered.

Very much the LLM equivalent of “to bake an apple pie you must first invent the universe”.

To its credit, it did a great job.

Re: Clawdbot - open source personal AI assistant

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Post by handoflixue »

aaronbasssett wrote: post #178
eclipxe wrote: post #39

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Uh. You can choose to use npm, pnpm or bun during install. It doesn’t try to install a new package manager. Maybe you were confusing clawdhub for something?

It doesn't try to install a package manager, except for Node Package Manager, Performant Node Package Manager, and the Bun package manager. Except for one of those three package managers, it doesn't install any package managers.

If you have any of those three installed, then no, it does not install any package managers.

Is there some missing and frequently used 4th option, here? Or some other route that you'd expect? Presumably it needs to get packages via some method.

Re: Clawdbot - open source personal AI assistant

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Post by esskay »

bronco21016 wrote: post #226
mgdev wrote: post #192

This thing is cool except: 1) It chews through tokens. If you're on a metered API plan I would avoid it. I've spent $300+ on this just in the last 2 days, doing what I perceived to be fairly basic tasks. 2) It's terrifying. No directory sandboxing, etc. On one hand, it's cool that this thing can modify anything on my machine that I can. On the other, it's terrifying that it can modify anything on my machine that I ca…

> It chews through tokens. If you're on a metered API plan I would avoid it. I've spent $300+ on this just in the last 2 days, doing what I perceived to be fairly basic tasks. Didn’t Anthropic make it so you can’t use your Claude Code Pro/Max with other tools? Has anyone experienced a block because of that policy while using this tool? Also really curious what kind of tasks ran up $300 in 2 days? Definitely believe i…

Seen a couple of people on X have posted about their Claude accounts being suspended after using this. All of them seem to have used it with Claude Code so yes looks like it violates their policy (not surprising really, it breaks their TOS).

I've tried it on Codex (ChatGPT Pro) and within an hour of just getting stuff set up and tested used half my weekly limit so I can see using $300 in a couple of days being very easy.

Until thats figured out this is basically a non starter, you can't use it if its going to cost $1k+ per week to use, and I'm not sure theres any local models that'd handle it without $10k+ in hardware costs.

Re: Clawdbot - open source personal AI assistant

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Post by bronco21016 »

mgdev wrote: post #254
bronco21016 wrote: post #226

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> It chews through tokens. If you're on a metered API plan I would avoid it. I've spent $300+ on this just in the last 2 days, doing what I perceived to be fairly basic tasks. Didn’t Anthropic make it so you can’t use your Claude Code Pro/Max with other tools? Has anyone experienced a block because of that policy while using this tool? Also really curious what kind of tasks ran up $300 in 2 days? Definitely believe i…

I offhandedly set it up to do a weather alert every 4 hours during the big winter storm. Absent a well-specified API, I can only assume it was repeatedly doing a bunch of work to access some open API it discovered. Very much the LLM equivalent of “to bake an apple pie you must first invent the universe”. To its credit, it did a great job.

Wow, so it must have been spending a ton of reasoning tokens then writing code to go fetch the weather. Or maybe using a browser?

Hopefully one day we get self-hostable LLMs good enough for this.

Re: Clawdbot - open source personal AI assistant

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Post by bronco21016 »

esskay wrote: post #256
bronco21016 wrote: post #226

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> It chews through tokens. If you're on a metered API plan I would avoid it. I've spent $300+ on this just in the last 2 days, doing what I perceived to be fairly basic tasks. Didn’t Anthropic make it so you can’t use your Claude Code Pro/Max with other tools? Has anyone experienced a block because of that policy while using this tool? Also really curious what kind of tasks ran up $300 in 2 days? Definitely believe i…

Seen a couple of people on X have posted about their Claude accounts being suspended after using this. All of them seem to have used it with Claude Code so yes looks like it violates their policy (not surprising really, it breaks their TOS). I've tried it on Codex (ChatGPT Pro) and within an hour of just getting stuff set up and tested used half my weekly limit so I can see using $300 in a couple of days being very e…

I’ve been working on adapting Claude Code to do some repetitive “personal assistant” type tasks so I was really excited to try this tool.

One of my tasks is a skill that fetches my calendar via MCP and slots events into a JSON to be used for an OR-Tools constraint optimizer that finds a workable schedule for something. It then uploads those events to the calendar using MCP when I choose my favorite candidate solution.

I checked token usage for this task last time I ran it. It would’ve cost $29 in API usage with Opus 4.5.

So yea, you’re absolutely right that this stuff isn’t going to go mainstream at these rates.

Re: Clawdbot - open source personal AI assistant

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Post by CuriouslyC »

akmarinov wrote: post #251
saberience wrote: post #198

Earlier quoted context omitted.

How is he "well respected", based on what metric? Amount of vibe coded slop put out into the ecosystem? He sounds like someone who has just vibe coded shit until something stuck to the wall. I also find it hard to respect people who create things which are 99-100% coded by an LLM, with zero technical merit or skill. Again, just creating slop until something goes viral. As far as I can see Clawdbot is just more AI-slo…

Just the opposite, he has over 15 years of experience of providing third party frameworks for the iOS community, used in thousands of apps. He founded PSPDFKit, a library for working with PDFs and managed to make an exit of the company worth $100 million He's written up hundreds of articles on different topics in the community and is very much a skilled developer, with tons of technical merit. Now you come along with…

That's a great reason to shout yourself hoarse stanning his insecure half baked experiments.
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