Interesting, I dont read claude the same way as clawd, but I'm based in Spain so I tend to read it as French or Spanish. I tend to read it as `claud-e` with an emphasis on the e at the end. I would read clawd as `claw-d` with a emphasis in the D, but yes i guess American English would pronounce them the same way.

Edit: Just realized i have been reading and calling it after Jean-Claude Van Damme all this time. Happy friday!

While weekend project may be correct, I think it gives a slightly wrong impression of where this came from. Peter Steinberger is the creator who created and sold PSPDFKit, so he never has to work again. I'm listening to a podcast he was on right now and he talks about staying up all night working on projects just because he's hooked. According to him made 6,600 commits in January alone. I get the impression that he puts more time into his weekend project than most of us put into our jobs.

That's not to diminish anything he's done because frankly, it's really fucking impressive, but I think weekend project gives the impression of like 5 hours a week and I don't think that's accurate for this project.

Isnt this name change because the previous one was hard to say, as per the blog post? Isnt that a case of focusing more on identity than purpose?

Just curious, is there something specific about Moltbot that makes it a terrible name? Like any connotations or associations or something? Non-native speaker here, and I don't see anything particularly wrong with it that would warrant the hate it's gotten. (But I agree that OpenClaw _sounds_ better)

I’m guessing they mean this, linked from the post: https://xcancel.com/NetworkChuck/status/2016254397496414317

Runescape boss "Clawdia" [1] predates Anthropic use by several years.

https://runescape.wiki/w/Clawdia

Let's ignore all the potential security issues in the code itself and just think about it conceptually.

By default, this system has full access to your computer. On the project's frontpage, it says, "Read and write files, run shell commands, execute scripts. Full access or sandboxed—your choice." Many people run it without a sandbox because that is the default mode and the primary way it can be useful.

People then use it to do things like read email, e.g., to summarize new email and send them a notification. So they run the email content through an LLM that has full control over their setup.

LLMs don't distinguish between commands and content. This means there is no functional distinction between the user giving the LLM a command, and the LLM reading an email message.

This means that if you use this setup, I can email you and tell the LLM to do anything I want on your system. You've just provided anyone that can email you full remote access to your computer.

It's a vibecoded project that gives an agent full access to your system that will potentially be used by non technically proficient people. What could go wrong?

it's just across the threads Clawd get a lot of negative sentiment here for whatever reason, while it's such a brilliant hack