Give Your Problems (and Passwords) to Moltbot, Then Watch It Go
Dan Péguine, a Lisbon-based tech entrepreneur and marketing consultant, lets an early lobster-themed AI assistant called Moltbot run much of his life.
Peguine, an early adopter and self-proclaimed trend spotter, discovered Moltbot several weeks ago (at the time it was Clawdbot) after discussing a mood coding side project with friends on WhatsApp. He installed it on his computer, connected it to numerous apps and online accounts, including Google Apps, and was amazed by its capabilities.
“I tried it, I got interested, and then I got really obsessed,” Peguine says. “I could automate almost everything. It was magic.”
Moltbot makes classic AI assistants, like Siri and Alexa, seem quaint. The AI assistant is designed to run continuously on a user’s computer and communicate with different AI models, applications, and online services to accomplish tasks. Users can talk to him via WhatsApp, Telegram or another chat app. While normal assistants are limited in the questions they can answer and the tasks they can perform, Moltbot can perform an almost unlimited range of tasks involving different applications, coding, and web usage.
Peguine has her Moltbot, called “Pokey,” who gives her morning briefings, organizes her workday to maximize productivity, schedules meetings, handles scheduling conflicts, and processes invoices. Pokey even warns him and his wife when his children have an upcoming exam or homework.
Peguine is just one of Moltbot’s many new disciples. The AI assistant has exploded on social media in recent days as developers, business types and tech enthusiasts have discovered its impressive powers of organization, automation and overall usefulness.
“This is the first time I’ve felt like I’m living in the future since ChatGPT launched,” Dave Morin, another Moltbot fan, told X.
“This gives the same boost as when we first saw the power of ChatGPT, DeepSeek and Claude Code,” wrote Abhishek Katiyar, an X user who says he works at Amazon. “You realize that a fundamental change is happening.”
“The future is here,” was a common refrain among Moltbot pills.
Although agentic AI is notoriously imperfect, some Moltbot fans are clearly automating high-stakes things.
André Foeken, CTO of a healthcare company in the Netherlands, claims he gave Moltbot his credit card details and Amazon ID, and sent him a message asking him to buy things for him. “I had it scan my messages and it automatically ordered some things. Which is both cool and the reason I turned off message scanning 🤣,” Foeken told WIRED in a message. Other users posted screenshots of Moltbot performing research and dispensing stock trading advice.
Moltbot fandom has reached such dizzying heights in recent days that the idea of buying a Mac Mini to run the new assistant quickly became a meme, with users joking about deploying the assistant in increasingly absurd ways. Remarkably, interest in Moltbot apparently sparked a rise in Cloudflare’s stock price, even though it has no connection to the company.
Origins of lobster
Moltlbot was released by independent developer Peter Steinberger under the name Clawdbot last November. (He renamed it this week at the request of Anthropic, which offers several artificial intelligence models named Claude.)
Steinberger says he started creating Moltbot as an experimental way to introduce images and other files into coding models. He realized he was on to something bigger when he tried to send a voice memo to his proto-assistant, and was shocked to see him respond.
“I wrote, ‘How did you do that, the F?'” Steinberger says. His tool explained that it inspected the file, recognized it as an audio format, and found a key on his computer that could be used to access an OpenAI voice transcription service called Whisper. He then converted it to text and read it. “That’s when I was like, holy shit,” he says. “These models are really creative if you give them power.”
