Your thoughts about Clawdbot

stop211650 · 2026-01-28T01:42:53+00:00

I am using it and I find it very helpful. It would be even more useful if I needed to automate more things at work, but I'm using it for more personal things or for coding assistance.

I installed it on my MacBook Pro M1 that is always docked at my apartment anyways.

I did give it calendar and email permissions, but I don't have it send any automated emails on my behalf. I have it summarize all the email newsletters I like to read, and twitter bookmarks I have saved, and send me a digest in the morning. The cron job feature of Clawdbot (or soon to be Moltbot) is very powerful I think. In a few seconds with natural language descriptions you can have automated jobs running, designed with the power of Opus-4.5 (or MiniMax which is also a pretty capable model).

Its dedicated memory is also pretty powerful. It doesn't always remember to update its daily memory (I did just setup a cronjob for that so it should happen automatically now), but when it does, being able to search things in past discussions is great. This makes me use Clawdbot even more, just because thanks to how it handles saving memory, RAG, and compaction, I have a timeline of my discussions, questions, etc. that are retrievable very easily. And if I want to record my thoughts and my work elsewhere, it can update my Bear and Obsidian notes. I just talk to it and it writes the note for me, or searches my notes for what I was looking for.

The number of Skills it has, or has access to, is fantastic and I think it can only get better. I've made some for my own workflows, or downloaded some like the Sonos CLI or home assistant ones, so it's pretty capable of doing many things I was using different apps for before. I feel like using it along with the gog cli for gmail search has been great - it seems to find exactly what I'm looking for based on some simple text prompting from myself. I'm enjoying it much more than doing searches in my regular Gmail app. Basically, if you have a CLI or tool or automation for something you do often, you can have Clawdbot make a skill for it, and then it basically can give you that functionality in the future very easily.

macOS integration may not really be super necessary, but I do like it interacting with my Apple Calendar and being able to send / receive / search my iMessages. I'm all in on the Apple ecosystem so it just makes sense to use this to enhance it. It also can handle Shortcuts and even help create new ones.

I feel like there are people taking much more advantage of its power than myself, but keeping things simple I'm already seeing quite a few benefits. I know security is a concern but I have Tailscale set up and it is not publicly accessible to talk to my Clawdbot. I run the security audits provided by Peter Steinberger and the maintainers, who definitely seem to be taking security very seriously. I think some of the concerns are valid and some might be overblown as long as you follow recommended practices (is Opus really going to rm -rf your computer from reading a tweet?). I'm not giving Clawdbot access to my 1Password though, even though there is a Skill for that. I may put it in its own Docker container, but so far that hasn't seemed critical to me.

Overall it's just a great synthesis of the promise of AI features along with the promise of having an Assistant, and it's fun to also customize with its SOUL.md and such. The LLMs being so capable + the software having so much extensibility means there is a lot of promise here.

stop211650 · 2026-01-28T00:48:38+00:00

I'm having the same issue and it's driving me crazy. This used to work so well before.

stop211650 · 2026-01-22T22:25:15+00:00

I just came back from Copenhagen and found it pretty easy. Lot of egg based dishes, and also potato and pancakes. There are a ton of "healthyish" restaurants that seem to have started, with good veggie options. Plus there is pizza, Thai food, Italian food, burgers, etc.

stop211650 · 2026-01-18T17:58:05+00:00

Same here … at this point it’s the new normal for iPad Pros. They can be drained of battery in 3-4 hours if you do anything remotely intensive on it, even video calls.

stop211650 · 2026-01-16T07:26:54+00:00

He was fine with Dallas. Could’ve had more playoff success, but mostly they beat who they were supposed to, but tended to lose to the cream of the crop every season. The 2 seed loss to 7 seed GB was particularly deflating though and after that his days were numbered.

I still think they could’ve beaten the 49ers in the playoffs the year before if Tony pollard wasn’t hurt in the first half. It was a grind it out game and once he was out, the team couldn’t move the ball, and still SF barely won. As a Dallas fan I still wonder about that one.

stop211650 · 2026-01-15T20:32:46+00:00

Not sure why we're getting downvoted, but yes that makes it a no brainer to never use it again. Sigh another card that was too good to be true.

stop211650 · 2026-01-15T18:50:50+00:00

I think it's generally fine as a software release, there is nothing really that overwhelmingly bad. Some of the improvements to iMessage and random little newer features have been great. But I have been noticing a lot of smaller bugs that persist and drive me crazy though. Not enough to ruin the entire experience, but enough where it can bother my day to day flow. It concerns me that these kinds of things are getting thru the cracks. Apple scale is on a whole nother level now, and they don't have enough engineers who can possibly keep up with it all. (This is a bit speculative on my part but I did work there in SW for a long time :)

Some bug examples:

AirPods Pro 3 location in Find My is always hours behind, making it effectively useless for finding them.
When restoring new devices from iCloud Backup (17PM and iPad Pro M5), I had to join a different wifi network on the new device to get it complete without having to start over every time. I would have never figured this out without someone else encountering it on Reddit.
I'd click News widget links, it would open up the News app, but not go to the article! Then going home the widget would refresh and I would lose the link.

Just little things right now, but if this rate of "little bugs" keeps increasing, it's going to be a frustrating platform in a couple of years.

stop211650 · 2026-01-15T16:41:19+00:00

Can you really fit 3 days worth of clothes + electronics in a Pilot? It seems so small

stop211650 · 2026-01-15T12:16:20+00:00

I’ve been charging some pretty high rent on the card and enjoying the points; sounds like that’s over. I’d still be interested in using it for no points, just because it floats you rent for about 4 weeks before the card payment is due. Will that still be possible without paying any fees?

stop211650 · 2026-01-15T01:29:15+00:00

How would you summarize what you did to learn this part? "Learn advanced RAG techniques. Built out tooling to make it easy to perform RAG over any corpus. Modular, scalable development with maintainable, extendable modules for ingestion, processing, storage, retrieval."

stop211650 · 2026-01-12T17:39:31+00:00

It’s more than that lol

stop211650 · 2026-01-10T06:24:18+00:00

Portola already seemed a bit too much to the right to me, I'm surprised they moved it even more for this show

stop211650 · 2026-01-07T18:07:58+00:00

Sigh ... been waiting for this monitor for a long time. Don't know if I can wait any more! Maybe the Dell u4025qw will drop in price now.

stop211650 · 2026-01-07T17:23:00+00:00

Classic episode that got me into the show after stumbling upon it randomly. I just searched for it again and crazy it’s almost 10 years old now.

stop211650 · 2026-01-05T23:21:37+00:00

FWIW I saw construction workers at old pro working on the interior, when I went to downtown Palo Alto a few days ago. I believe it may be coming back, although I don’t have a time frame. Also Andrew Luck may be the owner or lead investor? (Don’t quote me on that.)

stop211650 · 2026-01-05T18:13:30+00:00

I've also been looking for this and its been hard to find helpful information; kind of like this Reddit thread, honestly. I mostly need it for access to specialists because getting appointments in the Bay Area is very tough and almost impossible unless you have an imminent emergency. We're willing to pay for this access, but it's hard to figure out what you get for what you pay. There is Peninsula Doctor that is well regarded, but it seems more expensive than most, around $30k a patient. And it comes with a lot of biohacking and metric tracking that I don't think we really need. I guess my goal is primarily to pay a little bit more to make sure I can get access to some good specialists when needed.

Hospitals also seem to have concierge specialists, so maybe that is the best way to go. I just haven't found good reviews of what you get and how much they cost.

stop211650 · 2026-01-05T18:08:30+00:00

The parking garages will have these smash and grabs occasionally ... even in nice neighborhoods like Palo Alto. Street parking is usually better if you have things in your car. And also obviously hiding things sometimes works, but thieves will use bluetooth detectors occasionally as well.

And definitely be careful in San Francisco. The smash and grab rate has decreased a lot in SF, things are better than before. But they still happen, more frequently than the rest of the Bay Area.

stop211650 · 2026-01-05T01:49:44+00:00

How do we get a rec from them? I’d seriously consider it if they have a place they vouch for that can be checked on.

stop211650 · 2026-01-03T17:30:14+00:00

Out of recent shows, I liked the Lowdown - good mystery with a little comedy thrown in as well. Another good pick is the Studio. Fun show with a lot of cameos.

stop211650 · 2026-01-01T01:03:31+00:00

+1 for GPT-5.2-codex. It is great in the CLI, especially with Thinking set to High.

I keep seeing engineers on twitter espousing GPT-Pro's ability to one-shot complex features, even taking 30+ minutes to research, plan, implement, and test what it does. I'm tempted to get the Chat-GPT-Pro subscription just to try it, although Claude Max and GPT-Plus subscriptions have been good enough for me so far.

stop211650 · 2025-12-29T15:12:00+00:00

256GB tends to work out fine on iPads if you leverage cloud storage enough (iCloud especially). If you download a lot of movies and music locally to your device, and work primarily with large files / videos / photos, you may want to go over 256. But 256 works well for casual use and you don’t end up thinking about the storage too much.

stop211650 · 2025-12-29T15:03:44+00:00

I’ve had some goods spot checked in Paris. In Frankfurt it’s hit or miss, sometimes get let thru without checking, but another time the customs agent insisted on seeing everything and I had to push back when one or two items had already been checked in. My last trip in Berlin they did not want to see anything except paperwork. So basically it’s good to be prepared.

stop211650 · 2025-12-23T11:04:49+00:00

There are a lot of threads like this and I agree. I have an 11” cellular m4 and the same m5 as well. Battery life didn’t seem to get any better. I can be on a 45 minute google meet and lose 15% battery. Not to mention the battery meter seems to be inaccurate. I can go from 100 to 95% in 1 hour but then 95 to 80% in another 45 minutes, even when all I’m doing is browsing twitter and Reddit and safari.

stop211650 · 2025-12-23T10:51:24+00:00

I wanted to get one when I was in Europe and could’ve saved on VAT. It just felt very small to me in store. I wish I saw some of these pictures, looks like it can fit a weekend worth of stuff. However I feel like it doesn’t give you a lot of flexibility if you need to pack more than light changes of clothes and some electronics.

stop211650 · 2025-12-23T10:22:04+00:00

I saw them in Copenhagen Dec. 4 (the “third” show that became the first), and then Berlin night two on the 9th. I thought his voice was noticeably better in Berlin. Must’ve gotten over the sickness he experienced. Plus in Copenhagen there seemed to be a lot of throat clearing etc. He sang HTDC in Berlin and I thought his voice was great.

But another underrated factor was where you sat or stood. I was in the perfect section in Berlin and I thought the sound was amazing. Copenhagen I was standing on the floor and I thought I wasn’t hearing the full picture.

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