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1. theham+(OP)[view] [source] 2026-01-26 02:01:06
something feels off to me about the clawdbot hype

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

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2. theham+o[view] [source] 2026-01-26 02:03:38
>>theham+(OP)
his github: https://github.com/steipete

look at his contribution graph, it's absolutely wild

3. dangoo+N[view] [source] 2026-01-26 02:05:51
>>theham+(OP)
the developer is very well known https://github.com/steipete

the crypto is obviously not official and just another scam, trying to ride the popularity

Make of that what you will

4. kristo+S[view] [source] 2026-01-26 02:06:13
>>theham+(OP)
It seems wildly trivial. Chat completion loop with toolcalling over a universal chat gateway.

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

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5. userna+t1[view] [source] 2026-01-26 02:10:30
>>theham+(OP)
So it's just the Yegge pump-n-dump again? We live in a nation with an "AI and Crypto Czar," so it's not exactly surprising to see multiple versions of this grift.
6. maximi+u1[view] [source] 2026-01-26 02:10:31
>>theham+(OP)
He explicitly disavowed any crypto / coin endorsement

(I don't _love_ his vibes on Twitter, but he seems like a very reasonable guy generally, and the project seems awesome)

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7. theham+I1[view] [source] [discussion] 2026-01-26 02:12:20
>>kristo+S
And when you can use claude-code from basically any device (termux on phone via ssh), Why even bother?

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

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8. theham+N1[view] [source] [discussion] 2026-01-26 02:13:23
>>maximi+u1
The project is okay but i don't understand the crazy hype
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9. cherio+i2[view] [source] [discussion] 2026-01-26 02:17:15
>>theham+I1
The whole world is about bundling (and unbundling).

Not saying it really is useful, but there are values bundling an easier interface to CC with battery included.

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10. gbear6+A2[view] [source] [discussion] 2026-01-26 02:20:06
>>theham+I1
> termux on phone via ssh

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.

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11. theham+G2[view] [source] [discussion] 2026-01-26 02:20:38
>>cherio+i2
When someone is pushing 500 commits a day, i don't think they have time to review any code, and it was likely written in full YOLO mode.

So it's not just batteries-included, it's probably 100-vulnerabilities-included as well

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12. cherio+h3[view] [source] [discussion] 2026-01-26 02:25:26
>>theham+G2
I agree. It is basically claude code running dangerously all the time. That is actually how I use CC most of the time, but I do trust Anthropic more than random github repo.

(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.

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13. eikenb+x3[view] [source] [discussion] 2026-01-26 02:26:58
>>theham+I1
> Why even bother?

Claude-code is closed-source. That is a good enough reason to look at alternatives.

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14. ex3ndr+V3[view] [source] 2026-01-26 02:31:13
>>theham+(OP)
i have tried this workflow and it is solid. It is a codex that commits once it finishes something. You can pipeline changes, so it works like in 5-10min intervals and it gets mostly right, much better (and much slower) than opus. He has two computers and one for longer running tasks and another for short one. I suppose you just pipeline a bunch of small issues to the long term one and ask it to work and work on the repo. Another one is probably where he is more engaged with specific tasks. Impressive that it works quite good.
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15. browni+c6[view] [source] [discussion] 2026-01-26 02:52:25
>>theham+N1
The crazy hype was launched by the “get a Mac Mini” viral MLM content pyramid.
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16. kristo+v8[view] [source] [discussion] 2026-01-26 03:16:05
>>gbear6+A2
Not exactly. This isn't substantive work. Do we really need to find a bunch of identical projects on GitHub?

This is the kind of project I saw at hackathons in 2023 by teams that didn't win anything

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17. eclipx+Yf[view] [source] [discussion] 2026-01-26 04:36:55
>>theham+N1
It took me a few tries but once I got a good setup going I started finding all sorts of little things throughout my day I could throw over to it and it would just do it and figure it out. I was then hooked.
18. gempir+4n[view] [source] 2026-01-26 06:06:58
>>theham+(OP)
The Crypto scam is just a recent trend of scammers. They are using big open source projects/developers as figure heads, the maintainers have nothing to do with this, but there is nothing really stopping the scammers.
19. akmari+vo[view] [source] 2026-01-26 06:25:59
>>theham+(OP)
Peter Steinberger is a well respected developer that started out in the mobile dev community. He founded a company, then made an exit and is set for money, so he just does things for fun.

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.

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20. kristo+lr[view] [source] [discussion] 2026-01-26 06:55:26
>>akmari+vo
Projects should be judged on their intrinsic merits and not merely be based on the social media follow count of the authors
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21. aixper+wt[view] [source] [discussion] 2026-01-26 07:20:22
>>theham+G2
this is the whole message of this hype that you can churn out 500 commits a day relatively confidently the way you have clang churn out 500 assemblies without reading them. We might not be 100% there but the hype is looking slightly into the future and even though I don't see the difference to Claude code, I tend to agree that this is the new way to do things even if something breaks on average it's safe enough
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22. akmari+hu[view] [source] [discussion] 2026-01-26 07:27:40
>>kristo+lr
GP is directly discussing the maintainer your comment has nothing to do with the topic discussed...
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23. kristo+0x[view] [source] [discussion] 2026-01-26 07:59:47
>>akmari+hu
What on earth are you talking about?

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"

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24. akmari+Az[view] [source] [discussion] 2026-01-26 08:25:29
>>kristo+0x
You should really invest in more reading comprehension
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25. kristo+LC[view] [source] [discussion] 2026-01-26 08:57:20
>>akmari+Az
So all you have is personal insults?

If you don't feel like being an adult...

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26. piyuv+yF[view] [source] [discussion] 2026-01-26 09:27:23
>>akmari+vo
Being a well respected dev and being active on Twitter are contradictory
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27. akmari+qH[view] [source] [discussion] 2026-01-26 09:48:04
>>piyuv+yF
Like it or not, it's where most people are
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28. theham+OK[view] [source] [discussion] 2026-01-26 10:16:32
>>aixper+wt
Your username says a lot about your whole message
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29. Purple+YM[view] [source] [discussion] 2026-01-26 10:32:00
>>akmari+qH
Most whom? If we're talking about any kind of people, then no, there are far bigger Social networks than eX-Twitter. And if we are just talking about tech-people, it's disputable, but at least we could talk about the quality discussions there.
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30. akmari+VU[view] [source] [discussion] 2026-01-26 11:39:12
>>Purple+YM
Mastodon has a lot of tech people but very much a hard on for hating anything with AI, especially with AI coding. The rest of the social networks don’t really get a meaningful amount of tech discussions.

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.

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31. Purple+yW[view] [source] [discussion] 2026-01-26 11:55:26
>>akmari+VU
What are you even talking about? Reddit, YouTube, even TikTok has more serious tech-content than X these days. X is now hard infested with scammers and bots, who want to sell you their snake oil and other low-quality-trash. High-quality-content is the exception. Sure, there are still high-profile-people, but outside of posting relevant news, usually leading to other platforms, even those are more busy with trash-talking and dreaming around.
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32. akmari+Pd1[view] [source] [discussion] 2026-01-26 13:52:57
>>Purple+yW
YouTube is consumption only, you don't really have a lot of discussions, also it's stale, because it takes quite a bit to reflect the latest.

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.

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33. saberi+bg1[view] [source] [discussion] 2026-01-26 14:06:10
>>akmari+vo
How is he "well respected", based on what metric? Amount of vibe coded slop put out into the ecosystem?

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.

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34. kilroy+Yn1[view] [source] 2026-01-26 14:47:50
>>theham+(OP)
I feel the same way. In the past week, I started seeing chatter about this EVERYWHERE on social media, here, and YouTube. Very sus.
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35. ru552+2z1[view] [source] [discussion] 2026-01-26 15:38:06
>>theham+I1
You can talk to it in discord or whatsap or telegram etc. cause it's checking for you in a loop.

That's the biggest difference I can tell.

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36. akmari+9o4[view] [source] [discussion] 2026-01-27 10:00:53
>>saberi+bg1
Just the opposite, he has over 15 years of experience of providing third party frameworks for the iOS community, used in thousands of apps. He founded PSPDFKit, a library for working with PDFs and managed to make an exit of the company worth $100 million

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.

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37. Curiou+ro5[view] [source] [discussion] 2026-01-27 15:55:23
>>akmari+9o4
That's a great reason to shout yourself hoarse stanning his insecure half baked experiments.
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38. adam_p+pq5[view] [source] [discussion] 2026-01-27 16:04:52
>>eikenb+x3
Yeah but you're still using anthropic's subscription and tokens. That's not really an alternative. That's why we're shipping our own model with cortex.build
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39. stefan+9h6[view] [source] [discussion] 2026-01-27 19:25:32
>>akmari+qH
I mean, the grifter, scam, hype vendor & crypto adjacents definitely are
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40. akmari+dd9[view] [source] [discussion] 2026-01-28 15:11:10
>>Curiou+ro5
Found another one
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41. eikenb+Zoi[view] [source] [discussion] 2026-01-30 23:59:28
>>adam_p+pq5
If you're not using Claude Code, why would you still use Anthropic. AFAIK their API pricing is not competitive.
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