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>>ed+(OP)
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/115968901926545907 - the author blew through $560 of tokens in a weekend of playing with it.

If you want to run this full time to organise your mailbox and your agenda, it's probably cheaper to hire a real human personal assistant.

>>lode+Hs
That's the sad thing. There are so many millions of talented under-employed people in the world that would gladly run errands or set up automations for you for $200-$1000 per month or whatever people are spending on this bot.

Developers trust lobsters more than humans.

The other wild thing is that many of these expensive automations that are being celebrated on X can already be done by voice using Siri, Google, or any MCP client.