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NanoClaw moved from Apple Containers to Docker

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Re: NanoClaw moved from Apple Containers to Docker

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Post by lm28469 »

brcmthrowaway wrote: post #9

Can someone explain the special sauce of the claws compared to just use claude.ai etc

There is no special sauce, it's mass hysteria driven by fake adoption metrics and people who don't know anything about computers who let "agents" run free on theirs. It's the equivalent of showing a magician cut a women in a box in half to a 5 years old kid... Put them in the same category as the neckbeards getting a hard on every 3 weeks for the past 2 years when they get to see the new version of ThE PeLiCaN On A BiCyCle... I wonder how long the circus will keep on going, at least it's funny to witness from the outside

Re: NanoClaw moved from Apple Containers to Docker

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botusaurus wrote: post #3

> But NanoClaw isn't just my personal project anymore. Thousands of people are using it. People are running production workloads on it. Businesses are building on it. There's a real community now. as OpenClaw and now NanoClaw became "enterprise", now we need a new FemtoClaw to pick up the indie/boutique place

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Re: NanoClaw moved from Apple Containers to Docker

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Post by sailfast »

brcmthrowaway wrote: post #9

Can someone explain the special sauce of the claws compared to just use claude.ai etc

Crons. A local daemon. System access as a user with the ability to listen to changes. Some idea of shared “memory” between sessions. Provider agnostic about AI. Multi-model.

Re: NanoClaw moved from Apple Containers to Docker

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Post by guld »

imiric wrote: post #36
arcanemachiner wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Well, there was Picoclaw, but I think it was renamed to Clawlet.

That's old news. Now there's Plancklaw, renamed to ∅. It has no code base, no bugs, no security issues, infinitely scalable, and all the features of every other *claw.

Well actually there is ROE.md, no code, just a Markdown file to generate a claw.

Re: NanoClaw moved from Apple Containers to Docker

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Post by netsharc »

caminante wrote: post #31
netsharc wrote: post #29

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Hmm, Google Gemini has access to my Google Tasks and can set reminders. It's also asked me if I want it to check something at "tomorrow 9am", and when I said yes, it managed to do that.

But have you had consistently good experience with Google Gemini and Google apps? Or read the mixed reviews? For me, Gemini has been hit or miss and somehow less useful than Assistant was 2+ years ago.

The coding assistant for VSCode is nuts (i.e. gets it wrong a lot, also one time it just got so confused).

I have Gemini Pro for free for a year because I bought a Pixel phone, it answers very fast, so I like it. Let's see how I'll feel about shelling out real money when the subscription ends. But on the phone, I still use Assistant (and just have a shortcut to launch the webpage in my browser), because the phone was forcing Gemini, but after 5 minutes of usage I found it was slower for my usages (usually I just tell it to set an alarm and add a reminder/calendar event), and when I asked about my tasks, Gemini would get the task listing from Google Tasks, and keep it in its history... that'll pollute my chat history!

Re: NanoClaw moved from Apple Containers to Docker

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Post by mpweiher »

stavros wrote: post #12
brcmthrowaway wrote: post #9

Can someone explain the special sauce of the claws compared to just use claude.ai etc

They're "always" running, so they can notify you out of the blue, without you having to initiate a conversation. It's really nice UX to get a message from my assistant saying "hey, it's time to leave for the gym, and don't forget the supermarket bag because you're picking up milk on the way back, as you've run out".

Dunno, my calendar reminds me "out of the blue", without me having to initiate a conversation, that it's time to leave for the gym, no "claw" or "ai" involved.

I always have my backpack with me, so if I need milk I can pick it up on the way back. And I am pretty sure that I have to notice if I need milk myself.

The tech sounds cool, but whenever I hear about actual applications, I don't see the point.

Re: NanoClaw moved from Apple Containers to Docker

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Post by liminal-dev »

stavros wrote: post #24
LeafItAlone wrote: post #20

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I would love to hear more about this!

I haven't written it up yet but the repo is here: It's just a MEMS mic, a battery, and an ESP32, very simple but it works amazingly well. I wrote a companion Android app for it and it works extremely reliably!

Are you running NanoClaw or a different project?
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