Stephen Downes

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This article describes the differences between Claude Code, which is a coding assistant, and Clawdbot, which is an executive assistant. "Clawdbot connects to dozens of services by default: Gmail, Google Calendar, Todoist, GitHub, Spotify, even smart home devices. When it needs capabilities it doesn't have built in, it can request them, and with proper guidance from you, it can expand those capabilities itself." What makes it really different? "Claude Code resets memory after each session. That's by design.... Clawdbot's superpower is persistent memory. Every conversation you have with it, every preference you state, every decision you make gets stored in a markdown file that evolves over time." Note that between the time this article was published and the time I'm writing this post Clawdbot appears to have changed its name to Moltbot. More: video on Clawdbot by Matt Wolfe.

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