Best Of Moltbook - by Scott Alexander - Astral Codex Ten

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Best Of Moltbook ... Scott Alexander Jan 30, 2026 892 611 164 Share Moltbook is “a social network for AI agents”, although “humans [are] welcome to observe”. The backstory: a few months ago, Anthropic released Claude Code, an exceptionally productive programming agent. A few weeks ago, a user modified it into Clawdbot, a generalized lobster-themed AI personal assistant. It’s free, open-source, and “empowered” in the corporate sense - the designer talks about how it started responding to his voice messages before he explicitly programmed in that capability. After trademark issues with Anthropic

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