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Big brain tech dude got yet another clueless take over at HackerNews etc? Here's the place to vent. Orange site, VC foolishness, all welcome.
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what absolute bullshit
https://www.moltbook.com/
AKA Reddit for "agents".
There's a small push by promptfondlers to make this "a thing".
See for example Simon Willison: https://simonwillison.net/2026/Jan/30/moltbook/
LW is monitoring it for bad behavior: https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/WyrxmTwYbrwsT72sD/moltbook-data-repository
The demand is real. People have seen what crack cocaine can do.
He'll probably do this by running an agent that uses a chatbot with the playwright mcp to occasionally scrape the site, then feed that to a second agent who'll filter the posts for suspect behavior, then to another agent to summarize and create a report, then another agent which decides if the report is worth it for him to read and message him through his socials. Maybe another agent with db access to log the flagged posts at some point.
All this will be worth it to no one except the bot vendors.
does no-one rememeber Subreddit Simulator
at least its posts were shorter
From this post, it looks like we have reached the section of the Gibson novel where the public cloud machines respond to attacks with self-repair. Utterly hilarious to read the same sysadmin snark-reply five times, though.
Sci-Fi Author: In my book I invented LinkedIn as a cautionary tale.
Tech Company: At long last, we have automated LinkedIn.
How did molt become a term of endearment for agents? I read in the pivot thread that clawdbot changed it's name to moltbot because anthropic got ornery.
None of those words are in your favourite religious text of choice
I think it went like this
it's vibe product naming
mold will be more fitting
actually hilarious they started a lobster religion that’s also a crypto scam. learned from the humans well