Comment by thehamkercat
10 hours ago
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
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.
Projects should be judged on their intrinsic merits and not merely be based on the social media follow count of the authors
GP is directly discussing the maintainer your comment has nothing to do with the topic discussed...
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Being a well respected dev and being active on Twitter are contradictory
Like it or not, it's where most people are
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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
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
> 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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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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> Why even bother?
Claude-code is closed-source. That is a good enough reason to look at alternatives.
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)
The project is okay but i don't understand the crazy hype
The crazy hype was launched by the “get a Mac Mini” viral MLM content pyramid.
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.
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
his github: https://github.com/steipete
look at his contribution graph, it's absolutely wild
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.
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.
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.