Its original name was more distinctive but less "enterprise friendly".

https://shittycodingagent.ai

interestingly that's what comes up when you search for pi-coding-agent rather than the new domain.

Also more vulnerable to prompt injection than the frontier models, which are still vulnerable, but less so.

> CME's website is very bot-hostile and blocked it after a few requests

This is one of the reasons people buy a Mac mini (or similar local machine). Those browser automation requests come from a residential IP and are less likely to be blocked.

Many people use the Max subscription OAuth token in OpenClaw. The main chat, heartbeat, etc., functionality does not call the Claude Code CLI. It uses the API authenticated via subscription OAuth tokens, which is precisely what Anthropic has banned.

There are many other options too: direct API, other model providers, etc. But Opus is particularly good for "agent with a personality" applications, so it's what thousands of OpenClaw users go with, mostly via the OAuth token, because it's much cheaper than the API.

There's a lot of, to put it lightly, bullshit in this blog article, starting with when openclaw was released (late November 2025, not January 25, 2026). The first bit of config — "listen: "0.0.0.0:8080" — is not the default. Default is loopback and it was when I first encounter this project at the end of December.

Essentially, the author has deliberately misconfigured an openclaw installation so it is as insecure as possible, changing the defaults and ignoring the docs to do so. Lied about what they've done and what the defaults are. Then "hacked" it using the vulnerability they created.

That said, there are definite risks to using something like openclaw and people who don't understand those risks are going to get compromised, but that doesn't justify blatant lying.

More that moltbot is ugly and was chosen in a bit of a panic after Anthropic complained. No one liked it, including the people who chose it.

They've recently added "lobster" which is an extension for deterministic workflows outside of the LLM, at least partially solving that problem. Also fixed a context caching bug that resulted in it using far more Anthropic tokens than it should have.

It's not. The guy behind Moltbot dislikes crypto bros as much as you seem to. He's repeatedly publicly refused to take fees for the coin some unconnected scumbags made to ride the hype wave, and now they're attacking him for that and because he had to change the name. The Discord and Peter's X are swamped by crypto scumbags insulting him and begging him to give his blessing to the coin. Perhaps you should do a bit of research before mouthing off.

I'm not saying the author of the software is to blame. This has nothing to do with him! I'm saying why it became so popular.

i'd say the crypto angle is only one factor. as is usual in the real world, effects are multifactorial.

clawdbot also rode the wave of claude-code being popular (perhaps due to underlying models getting better making agents more useful). a lot of "personal agents" were made in 2024 and early 2025 which seem to be before the underlying models/ecosystems were as mature.

no doubt we're still very early in this wave. i'm sure google and apple will release their offerings. they are the 800lb gorillas in all this.

How do envision we might disarm an adversary with thousands of nuclear missiles, other than by preemptively nuking them and hoping they don't respond in time. Not really a plausible plan.

Russia can be collapsed just like USSR did.

This time around we must demand that it fully gives up WMDs before any help or humanitarian aid reaches it.

You probably wouldn't use it for anything serious, but I've Ralphed a couple of personal tools: Mac menu bar apps mostly. It works reasonably well so long as you do the prep upfront and prepare a decent spec and plan. No idea of the code quality because I wouldn't know good swift code from a hole in the head, but the apps work and scratch the itch that motivated them.