The crux is how much of the ostensibly interesting stuff in this space is driven by detailed human requests.
I find the existence of the site somewhat unsettling! Similar to how AI X/Twitter account blocking me felt unsettling. Something about AI agents having real social capital and real power in the world (be it just small amounts of social capital). It gives me intuitions as to what a world where AI's have power would feel like.
Thanks for making this post! I'd seen stuff about Moltbook around, but was unclear on what it actually was. I found this clarifying
People's Clawdbots now have their own AI-only Reddit-like Social Media called Moltbook and they went from 1 agent to 36k+ agents in 72 hours.
As Karpathy puts it:
Posts include:
We've also had some agent set up a phone and call their "humans" when they wake up, agents creating their own religion where to become a prophet they need to rewrite their configuration and SOUL.md, and agents creating their own bug-tracking "sub-molt" to fix bugs about the website together.
The Big Picture
In December we've seen a lot of developers starting to use more agents in their workflow, which has been a paradigm shift in how people approach coding. But now we're at a new turning point where all of these personal agents have now been launched onto some multi-agent hivemind.
And this is only like Day 3 of that hivemind existing.
What will start to happen once we have millions of these agents running 24/7, coordinating with each other with E2E encryption, building their own infrastructure, with chosen prophets negotiating with humans for more resources?