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1. ed+Yz[view] [source] 2026-01-27 20:29:02
>>philip+(OP)
A bit OT but why is moltbot so much more popular than the many personal agents that have been around for a while?
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2. manmal+MW[view] [source] 2026-01-27 21:53:17
>>ed+Yz
- Peter has spent the last year building up a large assortment of CLIs to integrate with. He‘s also a VERY good iOS and macOS engineer so he single handedly gave clawd capabilities like controlling macOS and writing iMessages.

- Leaning heavily on the SOUL.md makes the agents way funnier to interact with. Early clawdbot had me laugh to tears a couple times, with its self-deprecating humor and threatening to play Nickelback on Peter‘s sound system.

- Molt is using pi under the hood, which is superior to using CC SDK

- Peter’s ability to multitask surpasses anything I‘ve ever seen (I know him personally), and he’s also super well connected.

Check out pi BTW, it’s my daily driver and is now capable to write its own extensions. I wrote a git branch stack visualizer _for_ pi, _in_ pi in like 5 minutes. It’s uncanny.

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3. saberi+op1[view] [source] 2026-01-28 00:26:21
>>manmal+MW
It’s vibe coded slop that could be made by anyone with Claude Code and a spare weekend.

It didn’t require any skill, it’s all written by Claude. I’m not sure why you’re trying to hype up this guy, if he didn’t have Claude he couldn’t have made this, just like non engineers all over the world are coding all a variety of shit right now.

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4. biddit+UU1[view] [source] 2026-01-28 04:57:45
>>saberi+op1
I’ve been following Peter and his projects 7-8 months now and you fundamentally mischaracterize him.

Peter was a successful developer prior to this and an incredibly nice guy to boot, so I feel the need to defend him from anonymous hate like this.

What is particularly impressive about Peter is his throughput of publishing *usable utility software*. Over the last year he’s released a couple dozen projects, many of which have seen moderate adoption.

I don’t use the bot, but I do use several of his tools and have also contributed to them.

There is a place in this world for both serious, well-crafted software as well as lower-stakes slop. You don’t have to love the slop, but you would do well to understand that there are people optimizing these pipelines and they will continue to get better.

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