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
look at his contribution graph, it's absolutely wild
the crypto is obviously not official and just another scam, trying to ride the popularity
Make of that what you will
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
(I don't _love_ his vibes on Twitter, but he seems like a very reasonable guy generally, and the project seems awesome)
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
Not saying it really is useful, but there are values bundling an easier interface to CC with battery included.
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.
So it's not just batteries-included, it's probably 100-vulnerabilities-included as well
(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.
Claude-code is closed-source. That is a good enough reason to look at alternatives.
This is the kind of project I saw at hackathons in 2023 by teams that didn't win anything
Yes, he AI generated all of it, go through his articles at https://steipete.me/ to see how he does it, it’s definitely not “vibe coding”, he does make sure that what’s being output is solid.
He was one of the people in the top charts of using Claude Code a year back, which brought around the limits we know today.
He also hosts Claude Code anonymous meetups all over the world.
He’s overall a passionate developer that cares about the thing he’s building.
The question is "why do people need fainting couches for this project and why are they pretending like 3 year old features of apis that already exist in thousands of projects are brand new innovations exclusive to this?"
The answer is: "the author is celebrity and some people are delusional screaming fanboys"
My response is: "that's bullshit. let's be adults"
X is the only place to learn about the latest developments on AI coding. And yes, you do have to sift through a lot of idiots on there and a lot of scams and bots, but the point remains.
As a Reddit user - Reddit's tech talk quality is quite lower than X. Don't know about TikTok, haven't used it, I imagine it's the same as Youtube.
X is a dumpster fire for sure, but there's still quality people on there that push the latest on what's happening. It's where the tech companies first announce things and it's where the discussion around those gets picked up.
He sounds like someone who has just vibe coded shit until something stuck to the wall. I also find it hard to respect people who create things which are 99-100% coded by an LLM, with zero technical merit or skill. Again, just creating slop until something goes viral.
As far as I can see Clawdbot is just more AI-slop. Anyone can create the same thing (and many have created similar) over a weekend. It's riddled with bugs, security holes, and it's a disaster waiting to happen basically.
That's the biggest difference I can tell.
He's written up hundreds of articles on different topics in the community and is very much a skilled developer, with tons of technical merit.
Now you come along with your small mind and a hard on for AI-hate and all you can comprehend is that nothing can challenge your world view so you reach out and attack what you don't understand. That just defines you as ignorant.