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Re: Clawdbot - open source personal AI assistant

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Post by adam_patarino »

Jimmc414 wrote: post #20

I’ve installed and tested Clawdbot twice and uninstalled it. I see no reason to use this unless it’s with local models. I can do everything Clawdbot can do with Claude Code innately and with less tokens. I found Clawdbot to be rather token inefficient even with Claude max subscription. 14k tokens just to initialize and another 1000 per interaction round even with short questions like, “Hey”. Another concern is there…

I am trying so hard to understand wtf people are excited about. I have failed. Claude Code can run over-night or while I'm out. Clawdbot looks like a great way to set tokens on fire.

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Post by adam_patarino »

eikenberry wrote: post #62
thehamkercat wrote: post #51

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And when you can use claude-code from basically any device (termux on phone via ssh), Why even bother? I had 3 friends ping me yesterday to tell me how this is going to eat their job.... but i don't see how this is different from claude-code + some chat interface + mcp servers

> Why even bother? Claude-code is closed-source. That is a good enough reason to look at alternatives.

Yeah but you're still using anthropic's subscription and tokens. That's not really an alternative. That's why we're shipping our own model with cortex.build

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Post by adam_patarino »

HorizonXP wrote: post #15
atonse wrote: post #4

Clawdbot is interesting but I finally feel like those people who look at people like me raving about Claude code when it barely works for them. I have no doubt clawdBot, when it works, must feel great. But I’ve had the tough time setting it up and found it to be very buggy. My first couple of conversations? It forgot the context literally seconds later when I responded. Nevertheless, I’m sure it’s improving by the da…

I’ve been doing Vim + aider, and now Claude Code. Those tools I understood. I never got into Cursor because I’m too old to give up Vim. Clawd.bot really annoyed me at first. The setup is super tedious and broken and not fun. That’s mostly because I’m too impatient to tinker like I used to. However, once you tinker, it’s so-so. I don’t think it’s a lot better than Claude Code or anything, but I think it’s just a focus…

I feel like this is the silent majority. All the twitter hype is not representative of the real world.

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Post by rjain1310 »

SinghCoder wrote: post #237

We at Qordinate have made a managed version - which works on Telegram, Slack, WhatsApp, and our own app at the moment. With iMessage, Email, Teams in pipeline. Think - if you don't want to do the hassle of managing this yourself, you can offload that to us, along with security aspects of prompt injection, and performance aspects of tool search, etc. If you want to try, it's available for free right now since we are e…

Privacy- and security-first approach compared to Clawdbot is a very important aspect. Will definitely give a try.

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Post by stefan_ »

akmarinov wrote: post #161
piyuv wrote: post #156

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Being a well respected dev and being active on Twitter are contradictory

Like it or not, it's where most people are

I mean, the grifter, scam, hype vendor & crypto adjacents definitely are

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Post by xtagon »

barrenko wrote: post #157
xtagon wrote: post #95

Wild. There are 300 open Github issues. One of them is this (also AI generated) security report: https://github.com/clawdbot/clawdbot/issues/1796 claiming findings of hundreds of high-risk issues, including examples of hard coded, unencrypted OAuth credentials. I am...disinclined to install this software.

It also tells you a lot about latent demand.

Perhaps. That was yesterday, today there's 650+, with hundreds being tagged as bugs.

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Post by mgdev »

bronco21016 wrote: post #259
esskay wrote: post #256

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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…

One thing you can try is powering Clawdbot with a local model. My company recently wrote[0] about it.

Unclear what kind of quality you'll get out of it, but since the tokens are all local, kinda doesn't matter if it burns through 10x more for the same outcome.

[0]:https://www.docker.com/blog/clawdbot-docker-model-runner-pri...

Re: Clawdbot - open source personal AI assistant

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Post by akmarinov »

CuriouslyC wrote: post #260
akmarinov wrote: post #251

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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.

Found another one

Re: Clawdbot - open source personal AI assistant

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Post by kkukshtel »

jackdawipper wrote: post #228
kkukshtel wrote: post #220

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I agree with this - the sudden prevalence of Clawdbot everywhere feels like tactical astroturfing.

definitely. I got ad blitzed the last two days by "wow" YT videos which I admit is why I even ended up clicking through todays "bot news" to this site. It's been uber hyped with marketing strategy for sure, its only coz it was OSS I paid attention but was surprised by the marketing for OSS since that doesnt usually happen.

And now the data exfiltration stuff happening makes me put my tinfoil hat on and think this was actually a coordinated data exfiltration attack that leveraged AI hype lol.
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