I was tinkering around with Clawdbot but it’s a little overwhelming. What do you use an app for when it can do everything? Started to get worried that I was opening up a huge security risk, so decided to scrap it. Will watch how these tools evolve.

@manton I've also been watching it from afar for a few weeks and it's super interesting. But I would never install it myself because of the security implications. I'm also wondering if any of these tools, even when coming from Apple or Google will be useful if they can't be trusted?

@manton started testing it yesterday. Got my Discord channel up and running. Yes, it’s a bit overwhelming. Yes, security wise, it might become a nightmare. Yet, I see a lot of potential for learning about agentic capabilities.

@manton Honestly I'm not sure how I feel about this app overall. It feels like a neat party trick so far, but it seems like it's mostly just generating text files to give itself instructions, which won't really scale.

@manton I loved the FUD from Viticci’s article. He’s like all of these other guys, because he can do something means that everyone else can or will want to. The guy’s in a bubble so small its making him lose oxygen to his brain.

> I believe that the repercussions of all this will soon ripple through the various app stores, and we’ll need to have serious conversations about the role of app developers going forward.
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> if Clawdbot can create a virtual remote for my LG television (something I did) or give me a personalized report with voice every morning (another cron job I set up) that work exactly the way I want, why should I even bother going to the App Store to look for pre-built solutions made by someone else? What happens to Shortcuts when any “automation” I may want to carefully create is actually just a text message to a digital assistant away?

I guess if he wants to roll his own why not? But he’s a nerd extraordinaire and makes a living off this stuff. Not sure why that means “we” have to have “serious conversations about the role of app developers”.

More AI bullshit, and I’m a fan of this stuff!

@manton interesting. I have to keep an eye on this… And by calendar? What’s that? Google Calendar or my actual system calendar if I want?

@manton now you got me looking at youtube over this. This is nuts….

@slison I didn’t experiment with the calendar integration but I bet it can work with either Google Calendar or your local calendar. Seems to be able to plug into many things.

@numericcitizen This is how the alien virus begins to reproduce within our electronic bodies. (Joking… I think.)

@manton I guess that if it can write apps for itself it can write anything to enable it to hook into anything else you want. Very interesting and yet scary in a device with internet access that just needs to be communicated with through your messaging app or code injected within its web browsing.