Let Moltbot Handle Your Issues (and Passwords) and Observe the Results

Dan Peguine, a tech entrepreneur and marketing consultant residing in Lisbon, has a clever, lobster-themed AI assistant called Moltbot managing much of his daily routine.

Peguine, an enthusiastic early adopter and trendsetter, stumbled upon Moltbot a few weeks ago—then known as Clawdbot—after chatting about a vibe-coding project with friends on WhatsApp. Intrigued, he installed it on his computer and linked it to various apps and online accounts, including Google Apps, and was amazed by its capabilities.

“I gave it a try, became interested, then truly obsessed,” Peguine shares. “I realized I could automate nearly everything. It felt magical.”

Moltbot elevates ordinary AI assistants like Siri and Alexa to a new level. This AI is designed to operate continuously on a user’s computer, interacting with multiple AI models, applications, and online services to accomplish tasks. Users can communicate with it via WhatsApp, Telegram, or other messaging apps. Unlike standard assistants that have limitations on questions and tasks, Moltbot excels at a vast array of chores involving various applications, coding, and web usage.

Peguine’s Moltbot, nicknamed “Pokey,” provides him with morning updates, organizes his work schedule for optimal productivity, coordinates meetings, manages calendar conflicts, and handles invoices. Pokey even alerts him and his wife about their kids’ upcoming tests or homework deadlines.

Peguine is just one among many new devotees of Moltbot. In recent days, the AI assistant has gained significant traction on social media as developers, business professionals, and tech enthusiasts uncover its remarkable organizational, automation, and overall helpful abilities.

“It’s the first time I’ve felt like I’m living in the future since ChatGPT was released,” exclaimed Dave Morin, another Moltbot enthusiast, on X.

“It delivers the same excitement as when we first witnessed the power of ChatGPT, DeepSeek, and Claude Code,” wrote Abhishek Katiyar, an X user claiming to work at Amazon. “You realize a significant transformation is occurring.”

“The future is now,” is a common sentiment among those enamored with Moltbot.

Although agentic AI is known for its imperfections, some Moltbot supporters are reportedly automating critical tasks.

André Foeken, CTO of a healthcare firm in the Netherlands, recounted giving Moltbot his credit card details and Amazon login, then sending it a request to shop for him. “I had it scan my messages and auto order some items. It’s both impressive and why I eventually disabled message scanning 🤣,” Foeken messaged to WIRED. Other users shared screenshots of Moltbot conducting research and providing stock-trading advice.

The enthusiasm for Moltbot soared so high recently that the notion of purchasing a Mac Mini to operate the new assistant quickly morphed into a meme, with users joking about implementing the assistant in increasingly outlandish scenarios. Notably, interest in Moltbot seemed to spark a rise in Cloudflare’s stock price, despite the lack of any connection to the company.

Lobster Origins

Moltbot was launched by independent developer Peter Steinberger as Clawdbot last November. (He rebranded it this week at the request of Anthropic, which offers several AI models named Claude.)

Steinberger started creating Moltbot as an experimental tool for feeding images and other files into coding models. He realized he had stumbled upon something significant when he sent a voice memo to his early assistant and was astonished to see it type a response.

“I wrote, ‘How the F did you do that?’” Steinberger recalls. The tool explained that it had analyzed the file, identified it as an audio format, and accessed a key on his computer to tap into an OpenAI voice transcription service called Whisper. It then converted it to text and read it aloud. “That was the moment I thought, holy shit,” he mentions. “Those models are incredibly creative when given the right tools.”