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thehamkercat 2 hours ago

something feels off to me about the clawdbot hype

About the maintainer's github:

688 commits on Nov 25, 2025... out of which 296 commits were in clawdbot, IN ONE DAY, he prolly let lose an agent on the project for a few hours...

he has more than 200 commits on an average per day, but mostly 400-500 commits per day, and people are still using this project without thinking of the repercussions)

Now, something else i researched:

Someone launched some crypto on this, has $6M mktcap

https://www.coincarp.com/currencies/clawdbot/

Crypto people hyping clawed: https://x.com/0xifreqs/status/2015524871137120459

And this article telling you how to use clawed and how "revolutionary" it is (which has author name "Solana Levelup"): https://medium.com/@gemQueenx/clawdbot-ai-the-revolutionary-...

Make of that what you will

kristopolous 2 hours ago | parent | next [-]

It seems wildly trivial. Chat completion loop with toolcalling over a universal chat gateway.

What's the innovation here? Local model? That was always possible. Toolcalling? Been around a couple years now...

It's like 5 minutes of vibe coding at most. There's likely 1,000s of similar projects already on GitHub

thehamkercat 2 hours ago | parent [-]

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

gbear605 2 hours ago | parent | next [-]

> termux on phone via ssh

I agree, but it also rhymes a lot with the infamous “why use Dropbox when you can just use rsync” comment. Convenience can be a game changer.

kristopolous an hour ago | parent [-]

Not exactly. This isn't substantive work. Do we really need to find a bunch of identical projects on GitHub?

This is the kind of project I saw at hackathons in 2023 by teams that didn't win anything

cherioo 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

The whole world is about bundling (and unbundling).

Not saying it really is useful, but there are values bundling an easier interface to CC with battery included.

thehamkercat 2 hours ago | parent [-]

When someone is pushing 500 commits a day, i don't think they have time to review any code, and it was likely written in full YOLO mode.

So it's not just batteries-included, it's probably 100-vulnerabilities-included as well

cherioo 2 hours ago | parent [-]

I agree. It is basically claude code running dangerously all the time. That is actually how I use CC most of the time, but I do trust Anthropic more than random github repo.

(I have the same sentiment about manifest v3 and adblocker, but somehow HN groupthink is very different there than here)

Edit: imagine cowork was released like this. HN would go NUTS.

eikenberry 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

> Why even bother?

Claude-code is closed-source. That is a good enough reason to look at alternatives.

maximilianroos 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

He explicitly disavowed any crypto / coin endorsement

(I don't _love_ his vibes on Twitter, but he seems like a very reasonable guy generally, and the project seems awesome)

thehamkercat 2 hours ago | parent [-]

The project is okay but i don't understand the crazy hype

browningstreet an hour ago | parent [-]

The crazy hype was launched by the “get a Mac Mini” viral MLM content pyramid.

dangoodmanUT 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

the developer is very well known https://github.com/steipete

the crypto is obviously not official and just another scam, trying to ride the popularity

Make of that what you will

ex3ndr 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

i have tried this workflow and it is solid. It is a codex that commits once it finishes something. You can pipeline changes, so it works like in 5-10min intervals and it gets mostly right, much better (and much slower) than opus. He has two computers and one for longer running tasks and another for short one. I suppose you just pipeline a bunch of small issues to the long term one and ask it to work and work on the repo. Another one is probably where he is more engaged with specific tasks. Impressive that it works quite good.

thehamkercat 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

his github: https://github.com/steipete

look at his contribution graph, it's absolutely wild

username223 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

So it's just the Yegge pump-n-dump again? We live in a nation with an "AI and Crypto Czar," so it's not exactly surprising to see multiple versions of this grift.