Just spoke to a friend who's running OpenClaw (f.k.a. MoltBot f.k.a. Clawdbot). What I didn't get before is the "everybody is buying Mac mini's" element. I thought this was all about sandboxing, and it's partially that, but also partially because the Sillicon Valley AI-pilled crowd don't have a machine in their home that is on 24/7 yet.

OpenClaw may just end up being a gateway to #SelfHosting. Once this whole OpenClaw experiment implodes, because — I'm just guessing — people figure out it cannot be secured, is ludicrously expensive and actually not that useful. People will be left with little computers in their home that they have no use for anymore.

Hello! 👋 How about you start self hosting stuff. Like, I don't know @silverbulletmd ! #AlwaysASilverLining

@zef
Did I miss the thread?
@silverbulletmd
@alan thread as in: what am I talking about? OpenClaw is kind of the hot new AI thing: https://github.com/openclaw/openclaw
GitHub - openclaw/openclaw: Your own personal AI assistant. Any OS. Any Platform. The lobster way. 🦞

Your own personal AI assistant. Any OS. Any Platform. The lobster way. 🦞 - openclaw/openclaw

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@zef
AHH ok I have llama 3.1:8b and glm-4.7-flash:latest on my M4
@alan these guys tend to burn hundreds of dollars per day on Anthropic Opus 4.5. They don't run models locally.
@zef
Nice work if you got the money.