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>>galnag+(OP)
I was quite stunned at the success of Moltbot/moltbook, but I think im starting to understand it better these days. Most of Moltbook's success rides on the "prepackaged" aspect of its agent. Its a jump in accessibility to general audiences which are paying alot more attention to the tech sector than in previous decades. Most of the people paying attention to this space dont have the technical capabilities that many engineers do, so a highly perscriptive "buy mac mini, copy a couple of lines to install" appeals greatly, especially as this will be the first "agent" many of them will have interacted with.

The landscape of security was bad long before the metaphorical "unwashed masses" got hold of it. Now its quite alarming as there are waves of non-technical users doing the bare minimum to try and keep up to date with the growing hype.

The security nightmare happening here might end up being more persistant then we realize.

>>Simian+0R
> Its a jump in accessibility to general audiences which are paying alot more attention to the tech sector than in previous decades.

Oh totally, both my wife and one of my brother have, independently, started to watch Youtube vids about vibe coding. They register domain names and let AI run wild with little games and tools. And now they're talking me all day long about agents.

> Most of the people paying attention to this space dont have the technical capabilities ...

It's just some anecdata on my side but I fully agree.

> The security nightmare happening here might end up being more persistant then we realize.

I'm sure we're in for a good laugh. It already started: TFA is eye opening. And funny too.