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Clawdbot - open source personal AI assistant

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Re: Clawdbot - open source personal AI assistant

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Post by Nicholas_C »

adam_patarino wrote: post #261
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.

There are a lot of people with incentives to hype the AI industry (VCs, founders, CEOs, internet personalities that need clicks, people that sell courses, etc). Last week everyone was hyping Claude Cowork, this week it's Clawdbot. Don't get me wrong I think there are a lot of cool things going on but there is a lot of hype (similar to the original internet bubble).

Re: Clawdbot - open source personal AI assistant

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Post by eikenberry »

adam_patarino wrote: post #262
eikenberry wrote: post #62

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> 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

If you're not using Claude Code, why would you still use Anthropic. AFAIK their API pricing is not competitive.

Re: Clawdbot - open source personal AI assistant

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Post by tttpob »

jason_tko wrote: post #175
tttpob wrote: post #122

Earlier quoted context omitted.

i disagree with your dropbox example. dropbox is apprently easier to use than a selfhost ftp site and well maintained by a company. but this clawedbot is just a one-man dev developed project. there are many similar "click to fix" services.

Not exactly, clawdbot is an open source project with hundreds of contributors (including me!) in only 3 weeks of its existence. Your characterization of just a one-man dev developed project is inaccurate.

I acknowledge its potential to be a great project, but I am simply stating my view that it is overhyped(currently). I also think that although agent scaffolding matters, model capability is the determining factor.
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