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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
"Buy a mac mini, copy a couple of lines to install" is marketing fluff. It's incredibly easy to trip moltbot into a config error, and its context management is also a total mess. The agent will outright forget the last 3 messages after compaction occurs even though the logs are available on disk. Finally, it never remembers instructions properly.

Overall, it's a good idea but incredibly rough due to what I assume is heavy vibe coding.

>>fny+Vi2
It's been a few days, but when I tried it, it just completely bricked itself because it tried to install a plugin (matrix) even though that was already installed. That wasn't some esoteric config or anything. It bricked itself right in the onboarding process.

When I investigated the issue, I found a bunch of hardcoded developer paths and a handful of other issues and decided I'm good, actually.

    sre@cypress:~$ grep -r "/Users/steipete" ~/.nvm/versions/node/v24.13.0/lib/node_modules/openclaw/ | wc -l
    144

And bonus points:

    sre@cypress:~$ grep -Fr "workspace:*" ~/.nvm/versions/node/v24.13.0/lib/node_modules/openclaw/ | wc -l
    41

Nice build/release process.

I really don't understand how anyone just hands this vibe coded mess API keys and access to personal files and accounts.