Dan Peguine, a Tech entrepreneur and consultant in Lisbon lets an incredibly delicious, lobster-themed party. AI assistant Called Moltbot, he has spent most of his adult life.
Peguine, a self-professed early adopter and trendspotter, discovered Moltbot several weeks ago—back then it was Clawdbot—after discussing a vibe-coding side project with friends on WhatsApp. Then, he installed the app on his PC, linked it with numerous online accounts and apps, such as Google Apps.
“I tried it, got interested, then got really obsessed,” Peguine says. “I could basically automate anything. It was magical.”
Moltbot’s AI assistants like Alexa and Siri seem outdated. This AI assistant runs constantly on the computer of its user and uses different AI models to communicate with online services and apps. You can chat with it via WhatsApp, Telegram, and other messaging apps. Moltbot has a much wider range of abilities than a normal assistant.
Peguine and his Moltbot are called “Pokey,” Give him morning briefings. Organize his day to increase productivity. Arrange meetings. Manage calendar conflicts. Deal with invoices. Pokey can even notify him, his wife and their children when they have homework or a test due.
Peguine has joined the ranks of Moltbot’s new followers. In recent weeks, the AI assistant, which is a powerful tool for organization and automation, has been gaining popularity on social media.
“It’s the first time I have felt like I am living in the future since the launch of ChatGPT,” declared Dave MorinAnother Moltbot Fan on X.
“It gives the same kick as when we first saw the power of ChatGPT, DeepSeek, and Claude Code,” wrote Abhishek K. Katiyar is an X-user who claims to work at Amazon. “You realize that a fundamental shift is happening.”
“The future is here,” It is not a common refrain Moltbots are piled high.
While agentic AI is a possibility, it’s not a reality. notoriously imperfect, some Moltbot enthusiasts are automating stuff that is high stakes.
André Foeken, CTO of a health care company in the Netherlands, says he gave Moltbot his credit card details and Amazon login, then sent it a message to have it buy things for him. “I had it scanning my messages and it auto ordered some stuff. Which is both cool and the reason I turned scanning messages off 🤣,” Foeken told WIRED in a message. Moltbot was also screenshotted by users. performing research And giving stock trading advice.
Moltbot fans have been so giddy in the last few days, that they’ve even considered buying a Mac Mini to use the assistant. quickly became The aforementioned memeThe users joke about the increasingly ridiculous ways they can use Moltbot. It is remarkable that interest in Moltbot has apparently been triggered by a rally in the stock price Cloudflare even though the company has no relationship with it.
Lobster Origins
Moltlbot Independent developer releases a new game Peter Steinberger Clawdbot was first introduced in November. The name was changed this week by Anthropic at his request. artificial intelligence models named Claude.)
Steinberger began building Moltbot to experiment with feeding images and files into models of coding. The moment he heard his proto assistant type back a response to a message he recorded, Steinberger realized what he’d done.
“I wrote, ‘How the F did you do that?'” Steinberger says. He explained how his tool had recognized the audio file as a format and located a key in his computer which could be used to gain access to OpenAI’s voice transcription service, Whisper. Then it converted the audio to text before reading it. “That was the moment I was like, holy shit,” He says. “Those models are really creative if you give them the power.”
