Viral Trends and Pure Idiocy 😁

Some time ago, a tool called Clawdbot popped up.
All it really does is add a UI on top of AI models via messengers.
You can message it in WhatsApp and ask it to generate unit tests in Claude, or parse your email via a Gmail MCP server. Which is actually nice, but not exactly groundbreaking.
We could already do all of this before with Claude and ChatGPT. We could even give commands from our phones. The only difference now is that the commands go through a messenger.

But on X, a viral trend exploded – “Clawdbot is changing our lives. We are about to become superhumans.”
This led to some truly hilarious situations:

• People are mass-buying Mac minis to run the bot, even though it can run on any cheap commodity hardware.
  The creator of Clawdbot is literally asking people to stop buying Mac minis and donate that money to him instead 🤣

• People give commands to the bot in WhatsApp so that it sends their own message to a friend… in WhatsApp 🤯

• Almost nobody uses local AI models, even though the bot supports them. Most people just use the Claude API. Result: massive surprise bills.

• People hand over their personal secrets to the bot: logins and passwords so the bot can “work for them”.
  Even though we have known for at least 10 years that machines need scoped tokens, not human secrets.

• People delegate their personal accounts and even their lives to bots, despite the fact that AI agents cannot be protected from prompt injection even in theory. And the creators of agent frameworks have been warning about this since day one.

Hackers are celebrating. Thousands of users are voluntarily handing over their access and their lives for free.
Basically, a herd of sheep escaped the fence and consciously ran straight into the wolves’ camp 😄

In moments like this, the only winners are Apple, Anthropic, and hackers who suddenly got a nice pile of cash.

This wave of idiocy will soon end with people declaring Clawdbot “bad, expensive, and insecure”.
Even though its modest use cases are actually quite useful, and its real target audience understands that perfectly.

Wishing all of us some calm in these dark times 😀