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OpenClaw – Moltbot Renamed Again

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Re: OpenClaw – Moltbot Renamed Again

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Post by az226 »

voodooEntity wrote: post #39

So i feel like this might be the most overhyped project in the past longer time. I don't say it doesn't "work" or serves a purpose - but well i read so much about this beein an "actual intelligence" and stuff that i had to look into the source. As someone who spends actually a definately to big portion of his free time researching thought process replication and related topics in the realm of "AI" this is not really…

Feels very much like a Flappingbird with a dash of AI grift.

Re: OpenClaw – Moltbot Renamed Again

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Post by nsjdkdkdk »

baxtr wrote: post #69
voodooEntity wrote: post #39

So i feel like this might be the most overhyped project in the past longer time. I don't say it doesn't "work" or serves a purpose - but well i read so much about this beein an "actual intelligence" and stuff that i had to look into the source. As someone who spends actually a definately to big portion of his free time researching thought process replication and related topics in the realm of "AI" this is not really…

I think large parts of the "actual intelligence" stems from two facts: * The moltbots / openclaw bots seem to have "high agency", they actually do things on their own (at least so it seems) * They interact with the real world like humans do: Through text on WhatsApp, reddit like forums These 2 things make people feel very differently about them, even though it's "just" LLM generated text like on ChatGPT.

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Re: OpenClaw – Moltbot Renamed Again

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Post by lode »

lurking_swe wrote: post #78
lode wrote: post #67

I tried it out yesterday, after reading the enthousiastic article at https://www.macstories.net/stories/clawdbot-showed-me-what-t... Setting it up was easy enough, but just as I was about to start linking it to some test accounts, I noticed I already had blown through about $5 of Claude tokens in half an hour, and deleted the VPS immediately. Then today I saw this follow up: https://mastodon.macstories.net/@viticci/1…

part of me sympathizes, but part of me also rolls my eyes. Am i the only one that’s configuring limits on spend and also alerts? Takes 2 seconds to configure a “project” in OpenAI or Claude and to scope an api key appropriately. Not doing so feels like asking for trouble.

That's what I did, which is why I abandoned my experiment this quickly.

I'd find it hard to write such an article about how this is the next best thing since sliced bread without mentioning it spending so much money.

Re: OpenClaw – Moltbot Renamed Again

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Post by lurking_swe »

lode wrote: post #84
lurking_swe wrote: post #78

Earlier quoted context omitted.

part of me sympathizes, but part of me also rolls my eyes. Am i the only one that’s configuring limits on spend and also alerts? Takes 2 seconds to configure a “project” in OpenAI or Claude and to scope an api key appropriately. Not doing so feels like asking for trouble.

That's what I did, which is why I abandoned my experiment this quickly. I'd find it hard to write such an article about how this is the next best thing since sliced bread without mentioning it spending so much money.

good on you! The anecdote of that person spending hundreds of dollar is scary.

Re: OpenClaw – Moltbot Renamed Again

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Post by jsheard »

PurpleRamen wrote: post #75

Not very trust-inducing to rename a popular project so often in such a short time. I've yet again have to change all the (three) bookmarks I collected. Anyway, independent of what one thinks of this project, It's very insightful to read through the repository and see how AI-usage and agent are working these days. But reading through the integrations, I'm curious to know why it bothers to make all of them, when tools…

> Not very trust-inducing to rename a popular project so often in such a short time.

Yeah but think of the upside - every time you rename a project you get to launch a new tie-in memecoin.

Re: OpenClaw – Moltbot Renamed Again

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Post by arrowsmith »

matsemann wrote: post #59
arrowsmith wrote: post #40

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It wasn't just one random asshole, tons of people were saying that "Moltbot" is a terrible name. (I agree, although I didn't tweet at him about it.) OpenClaw is a million times better.

Just curious, is there something specific about Moltbot that makes it a terrible name? Like any connotations or associations or something? Non-native speaker here, and I don't see anything particularly wrong with it that would warrant the hate it's gotten. (But I agree that OpenClaw _sounds_ better)

No connotations or associations that I can think of it. It just sounds weird and is kinda hard to pronounce - doesn't roll off the tongue easily.

It's not the worst thing ever, it's just not a very aesthetically pleasing combination of sounds.

Re: OpenClaw – Moltbot Renamed Again

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Post by vibeprofessor »

brna-2 wrote: post #63
vibeprofessor wrote: post #15

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When I post to HN, I post mostly for criticism and suggestions and less for praise. I did not sense what you did here, maybe I filtered it out.

it's just across the threads Clawd get a lot of negative sentiment here for whatever reason, while it's such a brilliant hack

Re: OpenClaw – Moltbot Renamed Again

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Post by Kostchei »

rcarmo wrote: post #16

This is indeed feeling very much like Accelerando’s particular brand of unchecked chaos. Loving every minute of it, first thing in our timeline that makes sense where it regards AI for the masses :)

yeh- what is interesting is that it is way more viral and ... complicit than any of the doomer threads. If it does build a self-sustaining hivemind across whatsapp and xitter.. it will be entirely self inflicted by people enjoying the "Jackass" level/ lack of security
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