An AI written casually in 10 days has soared to 70,000 stars on GitHub. "I was stunned when it started speaking."

[Introduction] Just now, the creator of Clawdbot revealed a spine-chilling moment in an interview: The moment this AI responded was truly hair-raising! He created this popular intelligent agent in just 10 days with his own hands, and there were 1,374 commits on GitHub in a single day. The power wielded by one person is enough to shock several major tech giants - AGI is really getting closer.

If you're active on GitHub, X, or in developer groups, you must have been bombarded with posts about a lobster-named intelligent agent called Clawdbot.

In just a few days, Clawdbot has really taken off. Its GitHub stars are now approaching 70,000. Take a look at the growth chart below; the curve is truly terrifying.

If we look at the growth curve over a 5-year timeline, it's skyrocketing.

It's even more popular than the original.

What's even scarier is that the creator of Clawdbot just appeared in an interview and revealed many details about the birth of Clawdbot in 35 minutes.

The moment it "spoke" was truly terrifying!

Created in 10 days at home by hand

Yes, according to the recent interview with the creator of Clawdbot, he created this project by himself at home in just 10 days, all by hand.

After Clawdbot became popular, Peter Steinberger appeared on a program.

In the following 35-minute video, he revealed the story of Clawdbot's birth.

The most astonishing part was when he shared the "spine-chilling moment" that completely broke him.

At that time, he casually sent a voice message to this AI intelligent agent, but then he suddenly remembered that he hadn't written any code to handle voice or audio for Clawdbot yet.

Surprisingly, 10 seconds later, Clawdbot replied as if nothing was wrong.

The developer was completely stunned and immediately asked, "How on earth did you do that?"

Clawdbot's answer sent shivers down the spines of all the tech geeks present.

This is how it explained.

You sent a message, but it was just a link without a file extension. I checked the file header and found it was in Opus format, so I used FFmpeg on your Mac to convert it to .wav. I originally wanted to use Whisper for transcription, but I found it wasn't installed on your computer. So I searched your environment variables, found your OpenAI Key, sent it to OpenAI via curl to get the transcribed text, and then replied to you.

Yes, Clawdbot was created by a single developer in just 10 days at home, but its ability to solve problems independently and its iteration speed have put all tech companies to shame.

In one day, Peter made 1,374 contributions to GitHub, which made netizens exclaim, "This can't be human!"

In the dawn of AGI, one person can be a team, and this is no longer a myth.

Interestingly, as the author Peter said, the emergence of Clawdbot means "the liberation of data that large tech companies may not really want" because it effectively breaks their closed ecosystems.

Peter also predicted that personal intelligent agents will usher in a new era of highly personalized software. Even people who don't understand code will be able to have their own companies.

Moreover, as large models continue to improve, personalized software will become even simpler and more convenient!

Anthropic: Are you copying me?

Just yesterday, there was a hilarious piece of news: Anthropic finally took action.

When ClawdBot first appeared, people felt something was off. It's easy to accidentally say Claude Code, and the trademarks are almost identical. ClawdBot, can you really say you didn't do it on purpose?

After ClawdBot became popular for a few days, Anthropic finally got angry. They said that new interfaces like ClawdBot are essentially "encapsulation layers" of Claude Code. We provided the foundation, but you guys got popular instead and even came up with a "knockoff" name and trademark. Is this fair?

So today, under Anthropic's strong intervention, Peter Steinberger, the author of ClawdBot, was forced to change the name to Moltbot, like a lobster shedding its shell.

Peter Steinberger said helplessly that the name change was not his intention, and he also had to change the project's mascot and logo.

The news that Clawdbot was renamed Moltbot also made it onto the hot list of Hacker News.

The loyal fans of Clawdbot said it doesn't matter whether it's called Clawdbot or Moltbot, they still love it.

Copying me? Unacceptable

Peter said directly on X, "I was forced by Anthropic to change the name. It wasn't my decision."

Originally, the project was named Clawdbot as a tribute to Claude, but obviously, Anthropic wasn't happy about it.

Sure enough, just a few days after Clawdbot became popular, they came knocking.

The new name, Molt, is taken from the process of a lobster shedding its shell and growing. This meaning perfectly fits their transformation.

However, during the name change process, a group of people were really upset - the cryptocurrency players.

There was already a Clawd meme coin in the market. After the name change of Clawdbot, it directly affected their speculation, so they flooded Peter's account with negative comments.

Peter even had to post, "Stop harassing me. You're hurting the project!"

What's even more exaggerated is that during the name change process, due to a glitch on the GitHub platform, his GitHub account was hijacked by a group of cryptocurrency scammers within just 10 seconds and used for cryptocurrency fraud.

Peter had to clarify that Clawdbot is a non-profit amateur project of his and will never issue any tokens.

At the same time, he also said aggrievedly that it was unbelievable that he had released an amateur project for free but received so much criticism.

You know, security experts have said that this is a million-dollar business, but he hasn't even earned enough to buy a Mac Mini.

There's even a conspiracy theory: Did Apple release Clawdbot to stimulate the sales of Mac Minis?

With Clawdbot's overnight success, netizens are also spreading Peter Steinberger's GitHub profile like wildfire.

He said that after renaming it to Moltbot, he really needs to form a team.