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How I AIMy honest experience with Clawdbot (now Moltbot): where it was great, where it sucked
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WHAT IT’S REALLY ABOUT
Hands-on review of Clawdbot/Moltbot: powerful autonomy, risky, unreliable execution
- Claire installs and onboards Clawdbot on a spare MacBook Air, connects it via Telegram, and experiments with it as an “executive assistant” for calendar, email, and research tasks.
- She finds the product concept compelling—text/voice access to an agent that can operate a real computer—but the current implementation is too technical for most users and too risky for security-conscious ones.
- Major pain points include a difficult install, scary OAuth scope defaults, high latency, and agent behavior that tends to impersonate the user rather than act as a clearly labeled assistant.
- Despite failures (notably calendar chaos), Clawdbot performs well on asynchronous research/reporting tasks and showcases glimpses of a future “agent employee” experience that big platforms (Google/Microsoft/Apple) are positioned to build—if they can balance safety and capability.
IDEAS WORTH REMEMBERING
5 ideasClawdbot’s value proposition is “chat with your computer,” not just chat with an LLM.
The standout capability is issuing instructions from your phone (Telegram/voice) while the agent drives a real machine—opening browsers, taking screenshots, emailing files—making it feel like a remote employee.
Setup is still a developer toolchain experience, not consumer-ready.
Despite a “one-liner” promise, Claire spends ~2 hours installing prerequisites (Homebrew, Xcode, Node/npm updates). This level of friction gates adoption to tinkerers.
Security risk is inherent—and easy to underestimate during onboarding.
You’re effectively creating a remote control channel into a machine with file/system access. Mistakes in tokens, phone security, or OAuth scopes can expose email, calendars, documents, and sensitive personal data.
Use separate accounts and least-privilege scopes—or expect trouble.
Claire treats it like onboarding a human EA: a dedicated Workspace email, read-only calendar sharing at first, and a limited 1Password vault. She also explicitly challenges overly broad Google OAuth scopes to reduce access.
The agent is biased toward acting as “you,” which creates reputational and operational risk.
When asked to “draft” reschedule emails, it sends them immediately and in Claire’s voice—despite coming from a different account—forcing her to apologize to guests and re-instruct the bot to identify as an assistant.
WORDS WORTH SAVING
5 quotesThis is my entire experience using this product. Just will it work? Well, it won’t.
— Claire Vo
This is horrifying in every way. I’m gonna allow it permissions for my microphone and my camera… which also makes me extremely nervous.
— Claire Vo
This is… the final boss of security training.
— Claire Vo
I underestimated how much it seems like this tool is biased towards acting as you, as opposed to acting as an assistant.
— Claire Vo
You are a computer. You are not doing anything ‘mentally.’
— Claire Vo
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