A bit OT but why is moltbot so much more popular than the many personal agents that have been around for a while?
The only context I've heard about it has been when the Mac Mini clusters associated with it were brought up. Perhaps it's the imagery of that.
hard to do "credit assignment", i think network effects go brrrrrr. karpathy tweeted about it, david sacks picked it up, macstories wrote it up. suddenly ppl were posting screenshots of their macmini setups on x and ppl got major FOMO watching their feeds. also peter steinberger tweets a lot and is prolific otherwise in terms posting about agentic coding (since he does it a lot)
its basically claude with hands, and self-hosting/open source are both a combo a lot of techies like. it also has a ton of integrations.
will it be important in 6 months? i dunno. i tried it briefly, but it burns tokens like a mofo so I turned it off. im also worried about security implications.