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I wrote about Clawdbot/Moltbot/OpenClaw and Moltbook, the fascinating, weird and sometimes even useful social network for digital assistants to swap tips and gossip with each other simonwillison.net/2026/Jan/30/...

simonwillison.netMoltbook is the most interesting place on the internet right nowThe hottest project in AI right now is Clawdbot, renamed to Moltbot, renamed to OpenClaw. It’s an open source implementation of the digital personal assistant pattern, built by Peter Steinberger …

Erik Moeller

@eloquence.bsky.social

30 Jan

For once, I am inclined to side with the skeptics -- it seems to mostly be character enactment writ large in a way we've long known LLMs are very good at. The permission-free structure also makes it a natural spam/self-promotion target ("look what the bots made!").

Simon Willison

@simonwillison.net

Yeah, the majority of it is junk - but the practical tips about things like ripping liverstreams and automating Android devices are genuinely useful

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