Moltbot formerly clawdbot will change your scientific life

This is crazy I know but I have been using Claude Code to develop this variational autoencoder model for some project I’ve been working on. On major versions of development I spin off a concise set of codes that I then read through and run and then have a colleague read through and run (thanks Dunyu). But basically everything I’ve been doing has been done by Claude code without any kind of total unrecoverable failure. And that has been great but I need to open my laptop and sit for a while.

It makes sense in the episode.

Enter moltbot (formerly clawdbot) which is absolutely amazing. You set it up locally and it’s basically an AI assistant that you can give access to whatever you want. A lot of people are buying Mac mini m4s to setup their own as they are compact and powerful. And let me tell you, this is powerful.

Apple makes a beautiful product.

I installed it on a lambda labs workstation I have which has a 2x RTX 6000s, 64 cpu AMD, and 256GB RAM. Okay that’s probably overkill but I haven’t really explained it all yet if you don’t know what moltbot aka clawdbot is.

It’s a persistent AI that can do anything. Want it to run codes for you? It will do that. SSH into a computer and make some changes. Sure! Want it to research some topic for you. Why not. It’s everything every other LLM product is. But it’s persistent and maintains a memory and personality through all interactions. And you can connect it to anything so it knows about you. Calendar? Yes. Computer resources? Yes. Want it to watch some stock for you? There’s an api to connect to. Want it to have an opinion about your music? Connect it to Spotify. And you can do it all through telegram or whatever chat app you like. You talk to it like anyone else you text on your texting app and it replies and tells you about what it did and what to do. And it remembers whatever you tell it because it writes it down.

We are chatting about how to augment its memory with better search capabilities. Yes Hackers is the greatest movie of all time.

And the setup is super simple. Basically it’s one curl and you are setup in a very easy to use installer. There are some tutorials on how to set them up on VMs all over the internet. This all sits behind a VPN for me except the telegram bot of course.

But what this means is that if you have some random idea on the bus your AI agent can get started immediately. If you are sitting in a lecture and have a thought your AI can try it out. Because scientific codes are not the same as developing software in my opinion. There is lots of boilerplate pieces that get sewn together until complexity reaches the point a software library is needed. Thus most scientific codes are one off things which AI coding agents are perfect for.

This could be you.

Anyways I thought Claude code changed life but this is next level. Everyone should convert. If you want moltbot get started here.

Sent from my iPhone.

EDIT: now it’s called OpenClaw