Clawdbot Sucks, Actually

So, with everybody and their mom talking

about this giant red lobster, I thought

that I'd give it a whirl and see for

myself why Claudebot is supposedly the

most powerful AI tool anybody has ever

seen in their lives. And I really gave

it a try. I mean, I went through all of

the shoutouts on the Claude.bot website.

I read through all of the blog posts and

articles talking about how fantastic it

was. They even explained it to me in

plain English apparently, which is that

Claudebot is clawed with hands, which

is, you know, the same thing that they

said that Claude code was a month ago.

And what I've unfortunately come to the

conclusion of is that Claudebot sucks

actually. And here's why. First, what is

Claudebot actually? Well, as far as I

could tell, it is Opus 4.5, which is

Anthropic's bleeding edge model. the one

that runs Claude Code for the most part

and the one that everybody has been

talking about for the better part of the

last 3 months wrapped around Telegram,

which is a messaging platform which

essentially allows you to send and

receive SMS messages from and to a bot

that you set up in the cloud without

having to pass through an interface like

VS Code or whatever. Plus, cron. For

those of you that don't know, cron is

basically just a way to schedule

messages so that instead of you always

having to initiate a conversation with,

let's say, Claude Code, you know,

Claudebot can send you a message. So,

just so you were all on the same page

here, I got Claudebot set up in uh

Telegram, as mentioned, and I told it to

schedule a good morning message to me 1

minute from now. It's now given me a

heads up that it's done the scheduling.

This is the cron thing I was mentioning

a moment ago. Anyway, it didn't even

actually do that given that it's now

8:13. Thanks for nothing, Claudebot. And

after some pretty painful back and

forth, looks like we actually got the

scheduled message, which is fantastic.

Now, just so we're all on the same page

here, this is useful. Okay, the ability

to schedule stuff with one or two

messages, and the ability to work via

your phone, kick off some task or

whatever is cool, but neither of these

things are a paradigm shift. People have

been doing this sort of thing for

months, myself included, with agentic

workflows, cloud-based scheduling, and

so on and so forth. What Claudebot

really is is mostly just marketing hype.

And there's kind of a clever reason for

this that I'll get into. A very

interesting reason why Cloudbot is all

over the internet right now is because a

few days ago there was a big pump and

dump with a coin that somebody

developed. I'll give you guys the step

by step in a minute, but basically

what's going on is Cloudbot was pushed

from all angles a couple of days ago by

crypto grifters looking to make a bunch

of money on a coin. So the sequence of

events here is Cloudbot went semiviral

after Peter Steinberger the developer um

put it out made it fully open sourced

and then gave a couple of cool demos of

what you could do with this technology.

Now because of the term claude with a W,

Anthropic sent a cease and desist that

forced the project to rebrand from

Claudebot into Moltbot. If you ever

wonder why the name of the repo changed

to Moltbot, this is it. Anyway, after

that happened, this rebrand created a

window because the Claudebot X account

changed names and their GitHub

organization briefly became available

for bad actors to steal. So that's what

happened. People took the old handles.

They immediately started squatting on

the accounts and cryptogrifter people

did what cryptogrifter people do really

well. They launched a coin. This claude

token on Salana obviously had a bunch of

interest. They used a bunch of hijacked

accounts to pump it and dump it. Made it

seem affiliated with the legitimate

project. And I'm sure, although nobody

has verified this yet, I'm sure there

was a lot of astrourfing on social media

as a result of this. Anyway, the token

hits 16 mil. Nothing super massive.

Everybody FOMOs in because they're

thinking, "Oh my god, this thing's

huge." And what ends up happening? A

bunch of people rugpull. 90% token

crash. It's now sitting around 8.65 mil

after the scam was exposed. Basically,

Peter uh mentioned it online and he said

like, "I'm not affiliated with this

thing." So, that's not to say Claudebud

didn't have some, you know, verality to

begin with. As I mentioned, there were a

couple of cool demos shown by Peter and

then other people that have used it that

uh initially sparked it. But a big chunk

of the reason why you're seeing

everything everywhere all at once is

specifically because this is a very

common play in like the crypto pump and

dump coin space. You get a bunch of

social media accounts, hell, sometimes

even sponsor and pay people uh to blow

something up as much as humanly possible

to give the rest of the internet the

illusion that this is the big thing.

Now, the use cases that people have been

talking about with Cloudbot so far are,

for the most part, honestly, pretty

ridiculous. I saw a post the other day

that talked about organizing their

downloads folder by file type. You know

what else organizes your downloads

folder by file type? Uh, Finder. You

just click kind. There also a lot of

people talking about research. And I'm

like, research is the catchall term for

people that are using technology not to

make any money, but to just seem like

they're being productive. Now, the use

cases here to me are hilarious. It's

people talking about doing Twitter

research and market monitoring and daily

summarization of their group chats and

stuff like that. For anybody in the

know, this is technobabble speak for I'm

not doing anything productive right now.

Most of the people saying things like,

"Hey, I set up Cloudbot to text my wife

good morning and good night every day.

24 hours later was having full-on

conversations without me even being

involved." Most of the people that are

saying this stuff don't seem to realize

that that's just what AI can do now. I

mean, Cloudbot is not the the thing

here. This is just a rapper that allows

you to do things via telegram as

mentioned. There are also some very

legitimate concerns. Like for instance,

this thing chews through tokens. One

person spent $300 on just the last two

days doing what they perceived to be

fairly basic tasks. Anyway, anytime that

you see some big new tech platform

thing, the development or product that's

hyped up to this degree, you do have to

ask yourself what the incentives are of

the people that are hyping up said

products. I mean, look at look at these

posts here. This fella has 5,600 likes

on a post, almost 800,000 views. This

person has 600 likes on a post, almost

100,000 views. All of these people are

replicating or talking about

functionality that is no real difference

between what Claude Opus 4.5 could have

done a week ago and Claudebot can do

today. And so what it is is it's

basically like uh like a gold rush for

social media purposes where you're being

told this story about this technology

that you need to hear about. You need to

download, but it doesn't help you make

money. It doesn't improve your

productivity by any means. And honestly,

some of what people are doing here is

kind of irresponsible. And this is

coming from the guy that uploaded his

whole genome to Claude like literally a

couple of weeks ago. I mean, this fell

here who has some security knowledge

says there's a big disaster incoming

with Claude because everybody's hosting

them on VPS instances. People aren't

reading the docs and they're opening

their ports with zero off. This service

right over here scanned and found over

900 Cloudbot instances with no security,

which means anybody can just jump in

there and then read whatever O tokens or

ENV tokens that you have installed. See,

in the business, we call this a massive

security nightmare, but obviously that

sort of thing doesn't get as many

headline clicks or views as Claudebot

just helped me automate talking to my

wife. Another thing which I find

hilarious is I don't know how many of

these tutorials you guys have watched,

but I've watched a few over the last

couple of days cuz I was genuinely

curious about how people were doing this

thing. And maybe half of the people that

were setting up Claudebot on various

devices, like literally had to install

or use normal Claude in order to debug

why their Claudebot installation was not

working. This is something that is sort

of being sold to you as like a consumer

ready product, but it's not. And even

the founder of Cloudbot mentioned

specifically, "Most non techies should

not install this. It's not finished. I

know about the sharp edges, and it's not

even 3 months old." This thing hit the

internet in storm like a couple of days

ago. Realistically, none of these people

have any idea what the hell they're

doing. And then they're just telling you

how to set it up using methods that are

quite frankly dangerous and kind of

silly. Hey, you know what else can do

Twitter research and market monitoring

and Telegram chat daily summaries

already? Uh, Claude. And it can do so

significantly more securely than this

freaking wild west thing which is

running on god knows where which is open

ports to god knows who. When you read

people telling you that claudebot is

literally printing if you look at the

profit and loss charts on a an account

that's fully run by this AI. And the

same or similar people are saying hey do

you want to learn how to do this? Sign

up to my course. You do have to be a

little bit skeptical. Anyway, do you

know what the really unfortunate thing

is? And I could have stopped the video

right here. Cloudbot doesn't really help

you make any money. It's not like a 0ero

to one overnight crazy successful

product or anything. All it is is it's

an iterative improvement towards

decentralized AI that run on things like

VPS's that have their own autonomy, have

their own email addresses and whatnot.

So, I'm not going to talk any more about

this, but suffice to say, I will not be

resuming my Claudebot Telegram chat. I

think I'm just going to go back to cloud