An open-source AI agent running on my Mac mini server is the most fun and productive experience I've had with AI in a while.

Clawdbot by @steipete is a personal AI assistant that you can infinitely tweak. It runs in any messaging app (!), has access to skills, can use the shell, and – notably – it can improve itself because it's completely open to customization.

My story:

Clawdbot Showed Me What the Future of Personal AI Assistants Looks Like https://www.macstories.net/stories/clawdbot-showed-me-what-the-future-of-personal-ai-assistants-looks-like/

@viticci @steipete Sounds awesome but rather expensive I imagine?
@tekguru @viticci Free and open source and the subs are cheap, most folks have the Anthropic one anyhow.
@steipete @tekguru @viticci so, this works with a Claude pro subscription? Or is a max subscription recommended?
@_ThomasTeichert @tekguru @viticci Works with pretty much any model and provider on the market. Currently Opus has the most character. OpenAI performs great is just more bland. MiniMax is extremely cheap and good ($2 fist month, then $10)
@steipete @tekguru @viticci amazing. When I read that viticci went through 180 million tokens, I was expecting something like $4,000 πŸ’€
Will have a look. Thanks Peter!
@_ThomasTeichert @steipete @tekguru @viticci You can actually burn through >2b tokens in a month with a $200 subscription, so… thereβ€˜s that. πŸ˜‚
@tobihagemann @_ThomasTeichert @steipete @tekguru I haven't plugged in my main Claude account yet for fear of getting banned but maybe I should try it 😜