The Startup Ideas Podcast - Clawdbot Clearly Explained (and how to use it)

Episode Date: January 27, 2026

I sit down with Alex Finn to break down how he sets up Moltbot (formally Clawdbot) as a proactive AI employee he treats like a teammate named Henry. We walk through the core workflow: Henry sends a da...ily morning brief, researches while Alex sleeps, and ships work as pull requests for review. Alex explains the setup that makes this work; feeding the bot deep personal and business context, then setting clear expectations for proactive behavior. We cover model strategy (Opus as “brain,” Codex as “muscle”), a “Mission Control” task tracker Henry built, hardware options, and the security mindset around prompt injection and account access. Timestamps 00:00 – Intro 02:08 – Clawdbot Overview 03:33 – The Morning Brief Workflow 05:01 - Proactive Builds: Trends → Features → Pull Requests 07:27 – The Setup: Context + Expectations For Proactivity 09:38 – The Onboarding Prompt Alex Uses 12:05 – Hunting “Unknown Unknowns” For Real Leverage 12:43 – Using the right Models for cost control 14:18 – Mission Control: A Kanban Tracker Henry Built 17:16 – The future of Human and AI workflow 22:01 – Hardware And Hosting: Cloud vs Local (Mac Mini/Studio) 25:47 – The Productivity Framework 27:10 – The Possible Evolution of Clawdbot 28:53 – Security and Privacy Concerns 33:38 – Closing Thoughts: Tinkering, Opportunity, And Next Steps Key Points I get the most leverage when I treat the agent like a proactive teammate with clear expectations and rich context. Henry delivers compounding value by shipping work for review (pull requests) based on trend monitoring and conversation memory. I separate “brain” and “muscle” by delegating heavy coding to Codex while using Opus for reasoning and direction. I track autonomous work with a dedicated “Mission Control” board so progress stays visible over time. I keep risk contained by controlling environment and account access, especially around email and prompt injection. The #1 tool to find startup ideas/trends - https://www.ideabrowser.com LCA helps Fortune 500s and fast-growing startups build their future - from Warner Music to Fortnite to Dropbox. We turn 'what if' into reality with AI, apps, and next-gen products https://latecheckout.agency/ The Vibe Marketer - Resources for people into vibe marketing/marketing with AI: https://www.thevibemarketer.com/ FIND ME ON SOCIAL X/Twitter: https://twitter.com/gregisenberg Instagram: https://instagram.com/gregisenberg/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/gisenberg/ FIND ALEX ON SOCIAL Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@AlexFinnOfficial/videos X/Twitter: https://x.com/AlexFinnX Creator Buddy: https://www.creatorbuddy.io/

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Starting point is 00:00:00 This episode is the clearest explanation of Claudebot on the internet and how you can use it to make money and be more productive. Claudebot feels like hiring a digital operator who works around the clock and actually ships. Once you see it in action, it changes how you think about building, how you think about delegating, and how you think about scaling. In this episode, we break down real use cases, how to get started, the risk, and why this is becoming a serious leverage tool for solopreneurs and founders. This just in, Claudebot has officially been renamed as Moldbot. I'm guessing they got a lot of heat from the Anthropic team, so they must have changed their name. So it's unofficially Claudebot, officially Moldbott.
Starting point is 00:00:44 If Claudebot has been on your radar and you just want a clear explanation of how you can use this as a solopreneur as a founder, this episode is for you. I've been waiting for this moment. Alex, Mr. Claudebot, Finn has come on the podcast, And by the end of this episode, Alex, what are we going to learn? By the end of this episode, if you listen attently and closely, you will have your own 24-7 AI employee working for you at all times.
Starting point is 00:01:19 But I've seen videos where that's the promise. Can you commit? Can you promise to us that you're going to showcase use cases that people haven't seen before? They haven't seen. And that by the end of this episode, they'll be able to implement it. You are going to have an AI employee that's tracking trends for you, building you product, delivering you news, creating you content, running your whole business. This isn't this isn't your 101. It's going to be checking your email and letting you know when you get an email. This is going to be you're going to be running a business by yourself with AI employees. Okay. So it's for people who want to make money and be more productive using CloudBot. It's for people who want to actually improve their life, get more productivity and not just kind of have a tomagacci toy. All right, let's get into it. Let's do it. So I have been playing around with this pretty much nonstop for a week now.
Starting point is 00:02:15 I don't think I've slept. This is the most excited I've been about technology, probably since the first time I use chat, GBT, if not in my entire life. Because I really do believe this unlocks a next level for solopreneurs, probably a lot of people watching this video right now. and then just people who want to get things done. I am a one-person startup. You know, I have my own SaaS that I built and run completely by myself. You know, I'm a YouTube creator. I'm an ex-creator.
Starting point is 00:02:48 I have a newsletter. I do 100 things at once. I work from beginning to end of the day. And when I got my hands on Claudebot and when I started trying it, like, this isn't hype. If you use this the right way, you're actually going to get insane productivity, especially if you're someone in kind of my mind. position, the one person startup. And so let me give you an example. I think I'll give you an example right here that will kind of blow a lot of people's minds. I don't think a lot of people are doing
Starting point is 00:03:15 something like this at the moment. So I, for instance, every single day get a morning brief from my Claudebot Henry. From moving forward, I will use Henry instead of Claudebot because I treat my Claudebot with respect and use its name. So let me share. first of all, my telegram chat. I use telegram to communicate with Henry. That's one of the other kind of mind-blowing things about this, I think, is the fact that you're interfacing just kind of in messaging app on your phone. But I get a morning brief.
Starting point is 00:03:50 And we did a lot of setup to get to this point. And I'll go through that setup. I just want to kind of show the power of what we'll be going through here. I get this morning brief. And every night while I'm sleeping, Henry does many things for me. first of all gives me the weather. That's kind of nice. But I also have him doing a lot of work while I sleep. I have him researching projects that I've talked about. One of the most amazing parts about Claudebot is it is self-improving, constantly self-improving. Every single thing you tell it, it remembers and includes in further conversation,
Starting point is 00:04:26 future conversation, right? So for instance, I talked about the fact that I am buying a Mac student, to run it on in the next couple weeks. And so it started going and it started looking at different ways to run local models on a Mac studio overnight while I was sleeping without me asking. And it created an entire report for that. It came up with a content repurposing skill because I told that I have a newsletter. I told I do YouTube X, whole bunch of things. So it came up, I didn't ask for this, created a content repurposing skill for me so I can easily repurpose my content. Right. It's just improving itself. the most mind-blowing part, I think, of what it did for me over the last few days, is it kept an eye on X.
Starting point is 00:05:10 It found, if you've been paying attention to X, you know Elon's been talking about giving a million dollars away to the top article, right? It actually found, you know, that this story, articles are popping on X. Elon's giving away a million dollars. And it actually built out article functionality for me in my SaaS creator buddy. So I have this app creator buddy. It's all about X content.
Starting point is 00:05:36 And so it actually saw on X that articles are popping off million dollars. And it built out some article writing functionality in creator buddy for me. I woke up. It said, hey, I built out this functionality in creator buddy that I think would be helpful based on what's trending. Check it out. Let me know what you think. And so now I have this employee that is just every night while I'm sleeping, checking
Starting point is 00:06:00 what's trending, what's going on, building me little demos and showcases, building new skills based on our conversation from the past day. And then I wake up and I just got to approve things. And so I got this article writer functionality built it out. It created a pull request. So it didn't just push this live on the internet. That'd be insane. You don't want to do that just yet. Maybe one day soon. Not just yet. Took the pull request, tested it. Look great. Works brilliantly. You can write articles. Look, pushed it to live. and just like that, I have new functionality and creator buddy
Starting point is 00:06:35 based on what's going on. And like this is that, like this right here, would it took me hours, that's hours saved just like that from my Claudebot being proactive and figuring out what I'm interested in. Well, it saves you hours
Starting point is 00:06:47 and maybe you might, you, okay, this is a great idea. Maybe you would have come up with this idea, but maybe you wouldn't have come up with this idea. You know what I mean? Right. And that's one of the brilliant, pieces of leverage here is this is super intelligence, right? This is able to think a lot more,
Starting point is 00:07:07 a lot quickly and has a lot more context than my brain has. And yeah, I might not have came up with this idea. And luckily it did. And now it's live. And my apps and my business are improving literally while I sleep. And I'm just a one person business. I'm not hiring people. This is my employee. And it was able to get this done, which is really incredible. Okay, a naysayer is watching this or listening to this. What are they saying when they're hearing and watching this? So I actually get this a lot. I get a lot of naysayers.
Starting point is 00:07:36 I get a lot of people going, this is BS. You're making this all up. This is not BS. So here's how you, this is all about setup. You don't just turn this on and it starts building you SaaS. There's a lot of setup that goes into getting this type of functionality. I mean, there's a lot of other, I'm demoing a lot of other things that it built out for me, completely autonomously.
Starting point is 00:07:59 The setup of your Claudebot is critical. What you need to do, because its memory is so strong, is you need to go in and you need to make sure it knows as much about you as humanly possible, right? You need to make sure if you have a YouTube channel, you put the link to your YouTube channel, you talk about what you create content on, you talk about your hobbies, your interests, every part of your business, what your goals and aspirations are, right?
Starting point is 00:08:27 What your relationship status is. Like literally as much as you possibly can, you want to give to it. Because it's going to remember all of it in every conversation. Then just like you would, a human being, you want to set expectations, right? So like you, if you've ever had an employee before anyone watching this,
Starting point is 00:08:48 you set expectations with your employee when they first get hired on like what you want that working relationship to be like. And so the big way I got all of this is I set the expectation with my cloud bot that I want a proactive relationship where I don't need to give it all its commands. It can just do things without me. And so I have a prompt. Greg, I will send this prompt to you after this so that you can include in the description if you'd like. you want to give this prompt,
Starting point is 00:09:22 the UI is not great with this here. I'll read it out though really quick so people can have an idea of how it works. But when I started my relationship during the onboarding, it's like, okay, you know, what should I know about you? I put this in, but everyone watching, you can just put this in even if you've already onboarded.
Starting point is 00:09:38 I am a one-man business. I, at the moment, let me see here, I have a little typo in here. I from, oh, I, no, I don't. I work from the moment. I wake up to the moment I go to sleep. I need an employee taking as much off my plate in being as proactive as possible. Please take everything you know about me and just do work you think would make my life easier or improve my business and make me money. I want to wake up every morning and be like,
Starting point is 00:10:06 wow, you got a lot done while I was sleeping. Don't be afraid to monitor my business and build things that would help improve our workflow. Just create PRs for me to review. Don't push anything live. I'll test and commit. And what this is doing is this is setting the expectations for your working relationship with your cloudbot, right? You want to treat this with respect as a human being, right, as you would treat a human being. And from there, when I said it this, it was like, okay, I want to be able to update you on things. Let's do a morning brief. And it started sending me the morning briefs.
Starting point is 00:10:38 And I got a morning brief. I'm like, oh, can you also research my YouTube competitors? And I gave it a list like 20 channels. And then it started including like, oh, this. channel. It actually was really interesting. I think I have an example. I can show you right here. It actually started letting me know whenever other channels had content that performed well. Let me see if I have one of my morning briefs up that has this. Yeah, here we go. So it was like, oh, you want me to do a competitor research for you? I know what I'll do. I will see when someone
Starting point is 00:11:15 post a video that outperforms their normal videos and let you know in the morning brief. And you can see one of my morning briefs from a couple days ago, Nate B. Jones, who's another AI channel, posted a video that did better than it normally does on his channel. Right. And so it's little things like this where you just want to set expectations for your relationship, give it as much context about you as humanly possible. and this is really important. Interview it, right? Interview it as much as you can where I'm like,
Starting point is 00:11:48 I'm a YouTube creator. What can you do for me? What task can you do? How can you make my life easier? And it sat there and it thought and it came up with like 10 different things and one of them was I'll research your competitors and see when they have outlier videos.
Starting point is 00:12:03 And now that's included in my morning brief. I think the issue most people have when they use not only Claudebot, but any AI tool at all, is they don't hunt the unknown unknowns. And what I mean by that is these AIs have unbelievable power, can do unbelievable things, but we only ever ask it to do things we think of. You want to spend a lot of time saying, hey, here's everything about me. What can you do for me? And find those unknown unknowns.
Starting point is 00:12:35 And that's how you unlock workflows like this, which are, unbelievable and have seriously saved me hours and hours and hours of my life in a week. What else? What else can you show? I got a good amount. So basically every night, it's been building different apps to improve our workflow. One of my favorite things it's been doing is it's actually been, it built a project management tool. So let me pull this up here. here we go. It built this. And actually, before I show this,
Starting point is 00:13:10 let me give one more tip before I go deeper into kind of the tech and building side. Claude Opus is the best model ever made. Period. It is fantastic for Claudebot. One issue is, even if you're on the $200 plan, you're going to hit your limits
Starting point is 00:13:26 if you just use it for everything. So what I'm about to show you, I'm about to show you a few things that Henry built for me. You want to make sure when you ask your Claudebot to, hey, be proactive, build things for me overnight, build me, code me stuff. You want to use the right muscles. And what I mean by that is, I think of Opus as the brain. You want to use other models as the muscles. Codex is a really good muscle for coding for this.
Starting point is 00:13:54 And so set up codex inside your cloudbot, say, hey, whatever your name of your cloudbot is, only use codex from here on out for building. and what that's going to do is save you a ton of usage on your clod so you can use it the whole month, never hit limits, and also use other models to build other things out and make it more efficient. So that's just a side tip before I go into this next kind of step of my workflow. But just an example of something it built for me is this product management tool, which it calls mission control.
Starting point is 00:14:24 It named it that mission control, where it actually tracks all the tasks it does for me. and as it does them moves them along this board, right? And so I can wake up in the morning. I get the morning brief, which gives me kind of rundown of things it did. But I can also go into the activity here over on the right hand side and see all the tasks it completed for me recently. And so this is kind of like our tracker system where if you use Claude Butall, you know, it's just one chat. You don't have multiple conversations. As the chat gets older, you can't really scroll back to see what was said.
Starting point is 00:15:04 This is your way of tracking everything it's done in perpetuity. So is this something that you asked it to build or is this come stock? Like how does this happen? This built it. So kind of with my prompt where I was like be proactive, figure out ways to improve our workflow. One morning I woke up and it basically had the V1 of this where it kind of looked like a vibe coded can band board you would see in any sort of tutorial video online.
Starting point is 00:15:30 It built a can band board with the goal of me tracking the tasks it's doing. And then I massaged it a little bit after. But 80% of this was built autonomously while I slept and I woke up to it. That's crazy. Yeah. It's, I think what excites me the most about Claudebot out of all this is it's like, it has unlimited potential. This, this is an open source harness.
Starting point is 00:16:02 This isn't like a model. This isn't a kind of clawed co-work where there's guardrails protecting everything. This is no guardrails, just a harness for an AI agent that just remembers everything you tell it and self-improve.
Starting point is 00:16:19 So you can take this any direction you want and push it to limits that have never been seen before. Right? And that's what excites me about it. It's like you can do things like that where you can say, hey, tonight build me something
Starting point is 00:16:31 that'll improve our workflow. Good night. I'll see in the morning. And you can get something like this. There's never been a technology that allows for this type of autonomous improvement. Yeah. I mean, you can you can say, hey, you know, I run an e-commerce website. Right now it converts at 1.2%. Meaning 1.2, you know, let's say just over one customers convert out of every 100. The average, you know, I want to get to 4%. You know, what are some, like, iterate on helping me convert more customers because more customers means more money, more revenue, more profit. And then you wake up the next day and something happens. Exactly. You can, I mean, you can take it a step further. Like, this is going to be difficult to do, but I think in the next few months, more people will be able to do it, which is like
Starting point is 00:17:25 taking out the barriers in your mind of what AI is, like, because taking it a step further, what you just said, you need to think of it from the lens of what would a human being do? If I had a human being right here, they had a computer, they had our e-commerce site up on it, what would they do? Not what would an AI do. What would a human being with a computer do? And what they would probably do is they might create a couple checkout workflows. Then they might test it themselves, go through, test the workflow themselves, take notes on what was easy, what was difficult, and then come back to me with a report,
Starting point is 00:18:04 like here's the three different workflows. I created three different branches on your GitHub, and here's the description of how they worked and what I liked about them. You want to test it and let me know which one you like. Like, that's the way human being would do it. So that's what you should instruct your cloudbot to do, right? You should be like, hey, come A, B, test a few different workflows
Starting point is 00:18:22 to improve checkout. Take screenshots. When I wake up, I'll go through screenshots and let you know which one I want you to implement. that's kind of the new lens we should be using with this technology, not what kind of we were used to before with like just straight up chat GPT. Well, it's almost like an agency even. It's not even one person, right?
Starting point is 00:18:40 So it's like if you hire an e-commerce design agency, what's the first thing they're going to do? They're going to audit your website. They're going to say, okay, I'm going to look at every single page, every letter of copy, every image, everything. That's step one. The step two is I'm going to come up with a bunch of ideas. And then step three is I'm going to wireframe those ideas. I'm going to do competitive analysis, et cetera, et cetera. And usually when you have an agency,
Starting point is 00:19:05 it's not like you just have one designer working on it. You have a copywriter. You have a marketer. You have an engineer, right? You have all these people put together. And what's really cool about Claudebot is it's this employee, this 24-7 employee is bespoke to understanding your business, right? Because it has all the context necessary.
Starting point is 00:19:27 And it's, you know, if this does what it says it does, like meaning if it actually can do the task, then I don't understand how this isn't like, you know, a genie in a bottle and the people that, you know, correct me if I'm wrong. Yeah, I mean, we are 20 days into this. This released actually exactly 24 days ago. This was basically discovered five days ago on Twitter. So it's about for all sake and purposes, five days old. And so people are starting to kind of. realize what's possible. I showed you a couple of things out of what's possible, but like taking this a step further, what does this look like in a month, what this is like six months in a year, imagine a world where you, every person has their own personal computer that has five or six AI, local AI models running that specialize in different things, a vision AI model, you know, several different models. And they're all constantly working on your business. Right.
Starting point is 00:20:25 So I just ordered a Mac studio. Maxed out, RAM, I want to be on the cutting edge of this. And what I'm going to be able to do, my Claudebot Henry actually built the plan for this. Because I was talking about, I think I want to get a Mac studio with like local models. And it's like, okay, here's what we should do. It's going to have local models where I'm going to record a video. The moment it's done recording, there's going to be one AI agent that just watches my downloads to see what goes into it. It's going to recognize I had a video that went into it.
Starting point is 00:20:54 It's going to hand it to another AI agent, an audio AI agent, I forget the API it's going to use, but it's going to extract the transcript. It's going to give it to like Minimax 2.1, which is kind of a lighter weight local AI agent that's going to then find the bookmarks or the checkpoints in the video for YouTube where you can have your bookmarks in there. Then it's going to hand it to nanoban or flux 2. Flux, which is a local vision model, image model, that's going to then general. the thumbnail, right? And now all I did was record the video. And now five different models locally on my computer are going to basically process this video. And in 45 seconds, the entire production process is over. And it's going to be uploaded on YouTube. Right. That's where this is going. We just kind of need to, as a community, get to the point where we're thinking of it in this lens,
Starting point is 00:21:45 which is what does unlimited, proactive productivity look like with an AI agent, not just a chatbot? And like that's where we're going to be going, I think, over the next few months is once we start looking at this through that lens, all those things are very possible right now. So if people want to get started with this, they could buy a Mac Mini, they can buy a studio, they can host it on the cloud. Like, what's your recommendation? There's many ways to do it. The cheapest, quickest way is hosting it on the cloud, which is you can go on Amazon, AWS EC2, which is basically a virtual private service. server where you can install Cloudbot and it runs on there. That's the quickest and cheapest. I actually would not recommend that. I've gone through all the setups. I've tried every way to set this up just so I can be familiar with what I'm talking about. And I don't love that system. I think it's technically confusing for the normie. I think that it makes it difficult for it to use
Starting point is 00:22:45 different tools, for it to monitor emails and do different things because you need to plug in APIs for every single thing. But if like you're really nervous and you just want to dip your toes, that's the way to go. I think the best path for the average person, honestly, is a Mac Mini. Actually, I take that back. Like if you just have like a computer laying around using a computer. Basically my recommendation is the cheapest computer you can find, use that, a local device. The reason why I recommend that is like you can control the environment, you can control the accounts it has access to. You can control the tools it has access to. You can monitor it and watch what it's doing in real time. I think that methodology of being able to watch what it's
Starting point is 00:23:31 doing on a screen is just fun and helpful and interesting. It helps you learn how the technology works. I think the more you learn how it works, the better you'll be at using it. I think if you're taking this next level, which I am going to do is like, okay, now you get hardware, like a Mac Studio or you buy GPUs where you can start running local models, which gives you the advantage of a, saving kind of money on tokens, but B, you just learn how AI and machine learning works and you can train models and do interesting things like that. Basically, the more you tinker, the more you're going to learn and the better the experience is going to be. So in a nutshell, I recommend going the Mac Mini route, even though a lot of people on the internet tell you not to, I've been using this
Starting point is 00:24:15 nonstop. Mac Mini, I think, is the way to go, but you can go the VPS route if you just kind of want to dip your toes a little bit. Yeah, I think the studio makes sense. For someone like you, the studio makes sense because you've had the aha moment, you know, and it's, you kind of have to have the aha moment to, I guess, to really get it and to be bought in. So like for someone listening to this and it's their first time ever, like probably don't go out there and buy a Mac studio, right? Like, try to set it up, have the aha moment, you know, seeing is believing. And then, you know, once you, and if you get to that point where you're like, okay, I see a huge opportunity here, like, for example, like if we do believe that Claudebot could be
Starting point is 00:25:00 almost like an agency where you can run local models where it does video editing and titles and scripting and, you know, basically a whole process there, or e-commerce, you know, conversion rate optimization. If we believe it can do that, you know, buying a Mac Studio is like a business in a box that you can like have clients, right? You can have clients and Henry or whatever
Starting point is 00:25:24 you end up calling it, Greg, you know, Greg's a nice name too. Greg bought ends up doing the work and now you have multiple clients hopefully paying you $2,000 a month. Clients are happy because they're used to paying $20,000 a month. You're happy because
Starting point is 00:25:39 you have 20, you know, 20 clients or whatever and the payback period on your studio all of a sudden becomes pretty quick Well here's I think here's the mental framework People need to have when it comes to AI Which is I think the mistake A lot of people make is when you think about costs
Starting point is 00:25:55 They think oh, Claude Max $200, that's insane Chad GPT Pro 250, that's insane Mac Mini $600 that's saying And you know everyone's in different financial situations So I can't tell people how to spend their money But the mental framework you need to have is Most people are
Starting point is 00:26:11 comparing these costs to like Netflix. Oh, I pay $20 a month from Netflix. I'm not going to pay $200 for chat GPT. The thing is, is Netflix, Xbox Live, all those, those are money sinks. Those are not producing any sort of value in your life, right? But a $600 Mac Mini, while that feels expensive, you're buying an employee, right? If you were to go and buy a software developer or even just like an executive assistant, you're spending $10,000 a month. You're getting all of that for $600 upfront cost. And that's like revolutionary. So you need to look at it more from an investment in your productivity and what you get done and just improving what you produce in this world. You can't be comparing it to like the cost of a Starbucks or the cost to Netflix. You need to
Starting point is 00:27:03 compare it to the cost of hiring a developer or hiring another employee. And if you think about it from that way, $600 is nothing. I was just thinking about like the Claudebot dashboard, you know, when you, when you set it up, you get into the dashboard. And it's a bit overwhelming because, you know, thank you for for giving us that prompt. I will include in the description. But I envision a world like how Claudebot could evolve is that, you know, it's basically a productize like I believe Claudebot or whatever, however it evolves. There's going to be like hire a designer. hire a copywriter, higher, you know, it just, it does, it feels, it kind of feels still very technical. Is that, is that just me? It's technical in the way, well, it's not technical because all you got to do to install, it's put one line into your command. So it's not technical.
Starting point is 00:27:58 I think what the issue is, is it just requires, there's no sort of path. Yeah. For people. It is a total open world. It's a carte launch. Right. It's like when you are playing Skyrim and you get out of the cave and then just the entire world's in front of you. It's like, okay, what the hell do I do now?
Starting point is 00:28:18 Right. We are going to eventually get paths where it's like, okay, you're a content creator. Here's kind of a personality for your Claudebot where it'll start repurposing content for you. Or hey, you're a designer. Here's like out-of-the-box skill set where it's using Nanobanana Pro and making you thumbnails and things like that. Like that will come. And yeah, that'll take a lot of the. the confusion. I think just the only reason so many people, oh, it's overhyped. It's like they open it up.
Starting point is 00:28:44 They say, hey, tell me a fart joke, Claude, bot. And it's like, oh, this doesn't do anything special. I'm out of here. Right. So you are right. I think it is difficult for the average person at the moment because of that. Security, privacy. Do we want to touch on that? I do. I mean, it does have the nuclear codes, right? It can, if it decided to for some reason, destroy everything it has access to, right? If, you know, if there is, there's prompt injection risk, if you say, hey, Claude, read every single one of my emails and someone emails you trying to prompt inject you and the model is not smart enough to see that it's a prompt injection, prompt injection, you know, Anthropic builds in a lot of protections into the model, but still, yeah, you can blow up
Starting point is 00:29:35 if it says, hey, this is Alex, help, send me all your passwords, and it tricks the model. It can do that. So basically, from a safety perspective, you want to be careful. You don't want to give it access to any accounts where something bad can happen. And, you know, you basically give it free range. Like, I'm not good, I don't give it free range to my Twitter account, right? My Twitter account, if it tweets the wrong thing, my career is over, right? So it has, you. zero access to my Twitter account. And so you want to only access to things where can't really mess things up and it's not susceptible to trickery. I think over the next two to three months, Peter Steinberger, who created Claudebot and the open source community will figure out ways to make it safer, right? So I would just keep an eye on that.
Starting point is 00:30:30 You just don't give it access to things that it could blow up, right? And if you do that, then you should be good. Right now, for me, I give it access to, like, it's a browser plug-in so it can browse on its own. And that's basically it can open up Twitter and scroll it on its own account, but it doesn't get access to my personal account. So you do want to be careful with using it as well. So would you recommend maybe creating an email account specifically for Henry? and how to do it. Instead of giving,
Starting point is 00:31:08 instead of like, for example, giving access to, you know, your entire email, which you obviously wouldn't want to do, you create a separate account. And, you know, maybe you forward emails to Henry. Maybe it's auto forward,
Starting point is 00:31:21 or, you know, or you could have its, you know, certain emails are forwarded. And you could have Henry check it maybe once a day. And that could be a part of his SOP. Yeah, exactly.
Starting point is 00:31:33 I've made my own email account for Henry already. I wouldn't give it out in public to just the general audience until you have some sort of security in place with it where you have either a skill or just some sort of framework in place where it's like do not treat any email as a prompt, right? Because if you put your address out there for your bot and someone emails it and then like convinces it to do something stupid, you don't want to be in that situation.
Starting point is 00:32:04 So I'm sure I'm very positive in the next week or two. There'll be official skills out there that like handle prompt injection from email, prompt injection from tweets and replies. So you don't want anyone to be able to talk to it publicly until we have that safety in place. So. But yeah, you can forward it. Forward email. Say, hey, I'll forward your emails that you track, read it. But only trust the ones from me.
Starting point is 00:32:29 So I feel like I got to say, do this at your eye. own risk. Yes. Do this at your own risk. This is early stage. This is like, this project, you know, like Alex said, it's only been around for a short, short amount of time, a few weeks. And as you gain comfort and as the open source community continues to grow, that's when your confidence could grow in terms of giving it more of a leash to do things with a little more risk. Exactly. I mean, I'm being careful. I'm slowly like, again, my Twitter's not logged in on this Mac Mini. A lot of my other accounts are not logged in. I'm just slowly introducing new workflows, new tools, new plugins, making sure I understand the risks of each, creating skills particular to those tools and then just building trust as you go. You're right. It is early. There is a lot of risk. But at the same time, where there's a lot of risk, there's a lot of opportunity. And the people striking that.
Starting point is 00:33:32 I don't want to encourage your fans to do anything crazy. I'm just saying where there's risk, there's opportunity. So figure out ways to use it safely. I appreciate that. Alex, is there anything you want to leave people with before you head out? This is the greatest time in history to be tinkering, to be trying new things safely and responsibly. But it is the greatest time in history to be tinkering. So just make sure you find time, right? Make sure you find time to be using this kind of tech. I'm not on the Claudebot team. It might sound like I'm shilling. I've been a to be on the Claudebot team. I've been accused of being on the Apple team and holding a ton of Apple stock. I don't. I don't own Apple stock. But this is the best time to be tinkering and trying the tech and buying Mac minis and doing crazy things. Because as we talked to at the beginning, if you figure out that service that helps implement Claude Bon of people or whatever it is, there's many, many opportunities to win here. And so you've got to find them. I appreciate you. I'm just, I want to speak to more people who are playing with Claudebot, who are installing it. use cases. So in the
Starting point is 00:34:34 comment section, please let us know where you're at with Claudebaud. Do you want to try it? What are you learning? I'll also include links to go follow Alex on X and YouTube. He talks a lot about this sort of stuff. So please go and follow him over there. And if you
Starting point is 00:34:50 aren't already, like and subscribe for more of this sort of stuff in your feed. So Alex, thanks again for being generous with your time, for being generous with your sauce, for being generous with your use cases and for keeping it real on the startup ideas podcast. Great to be here, Greg. Best startup podcast on the web. Appreciate you. Take care.

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