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I have a claw (that is not OpenClaw, just another impl) and my wife and I communicate to it through a Telegram bot (we have a group chat, but we both DM it most

by arjie 8mo ago

I have a claw (that is not OpenClaw, just another impl) and my wife and I communicate to it through a Telegram bot (we have a group chat, but we both DM it most of the time), it has its own email, and all that. A couple of things I had it do: * I was going through some SOC2 compliance vendor evals and I just messaged it as things were happening and it made me a nice doc at the end * My wife and I are planning a trip and we have a spreadsheet organized as a calendar. A friend asked when we'd be in Taiwan and my wife texted it to summarize the calendar into a text message to copy and it gave it to her. * I have it set up to warn me when to cover my bike so it doesn't get rained on, in the sense that I told it I wanted this functionality and it wrote something and scheduled it * It pulls my wife and my todo lists and gives me a top 3 in the morning to work on. * Every morning, it looks up Hacker News posts related to AI, filters out culture war type stuff and then sends me a short message about what it thinks will be interesting (new models, techniques, that sort of thing) * It watches some subreddits for sales of certain hardware (I'm interested in servers with SXM5 boards, Mac Studios with >64 GiB of RAM) and then notifies me when something matches Overall, it's all about mechanizing lots of parts of my life and using the advantage of a machine that understands text: it doesn't need sophisticated parsing logic. That's actually really nice.

ffb7c5 8mo ago
Do you mind sharing how much this is costing? I'm a heavy claude code user, but if I had to pay the API rate, it would be a bit prohibitive
- arjie 8mo ago
  Certainly, yes. It's about $75/week. The harness picks the model appropriately but it's mostly Sonnet with some rare Opus and Haiku/Gemma. I was previously running on DeepSeek 3.2 but while per token costs are low, the actual amount of tokens required to produce results is high so total costs were actually higher! I am also a Claude Code Max subscriber so the API use is in addition to the subscription, but it can't be helped. Claude Code is the best way for me to do work and the Claw is the best way for me to get an automated EA. I forgot something else: I also just text the bot to schedule meetings and it does that as well (I have a calendar delegated to its Google user). I've got some space in a datacenter, and I was vacillating on getting a card and running some open models but when I actually exercised them, it turned out that the quality of open models was too far below the Claudes for my use-case. Still if you've got a 300W Blackwell-based RTX 6000 Pro and you want to trade for some 4090s, email me. My claw powered by Claude is pretty trustworthy for my use-cases.
  - senectus1 8mo ago
    do you really count this cost as value thats worth it? I'm really surprised at the spending here...
    - CalRobert 8mo ago
      I suppose it depends on how you value time. Paying a person to do it would cost more.
  - robbomacrae 8mo ago
    “so the API use is in addition to the subscription, but it can't be helped.” - I beg to differ. OrcaBot.com is a claws that runs using vanilla Claude Code so you can do all that with your regular subscription. Disclosure: I’m the author. The only reason these other claws can’t offer that is because they front it with their own AI.
    - arjie 8mo ago
      That's pretty cool. And when I first tried this, I tried to do it with a bash loop around `claude -p` and you can get quite far with that! But overall, I think I'd rather use their tools the way they've set them up to be used and pay them their $500/month total or whatever. I'm probably going to stick to this approach, but your thing is pretty neat so thank you for sharing.
    - ffb7c5 8mo ago
      Just a heads up, I tried to use the continue with google button on your site, but running into "Bot verification failed". Using stock chrome browser, not running a VPN either
      - arjie 8mo ago
        Seems like a Recaptcha failure. FWIW, I was able to sign in and everything. I didn't actually use the service though.
      - robbomacrae 8mo ago
slake 8mo ago
Funnily it seems you were already more organized than I am today before you had the *Claw. That's why you were able to transition to it as a 'life operating system'. I have too much stuff in my head and nothing written down and that's beginning to be a hindrance to the transition.
lzy 8mo ago
May I know which claw are you using and why?
swah 8mo ago
Do you keep wondering if "a simple python bot could do this" ?

by arjie 8mo ago

ffb7c5 8mo ago

Do you mind sharing how much this is costing? I'm a heavy claude code user, but if I had to pay the API rate, it would be a bit prohibitive

arjie 8mo ago
Certainly, yes. It's about $75/week. The harness picks the model appropriately but it's mostly Sonnet with some rare Opus and Haiku/Gemma. I was previously running on DeepSeek 3.2 but while per token costs are low, the actual amount of tokens required to produce results is high so total costs were actually higher! I am also a Claude Code Max subscriber so the API use is in addition to the subscription, but it can't be helped. Claude Code is the best way for me to do work and the Claw is the best way for me to get an automated EA. I forgot something else: I also just text the bot to schedule meetings and it does that as well (I have a calendar delegated to its Google user). I've got some space in a datacenter, and I was vacillating on getting a card and running some open models but when I actually exercised them, it turned out that the quality of open models was too far below the Claudes for my use-case. Still if you've got a 300W Blackwell-based RTX 6000 Pro and you want to trade for some 4090s, email me. My claw powered by Claude is pretty trustworthy for my use-cases.
- senectus1 8mo ago
  do you really count this cost as value thats worth it? I'm really surprised at the spending here...
  - CalRobert 8mo ago
    I suppose it depends on how you value time. Paying a person to do it would cost more.
- robbomacrae 8mo ago
  “so the API use is in addition to the subscription, but it can't be helped.” - I beg to differ. OrcaBot.com is a claws that runs using vanilla Claude Code so you can do all that with your regular subscription. Disclosure: I’m the author. The only reason these other claws can’t offer that is because they front it with their own AI.
  - arjie 8mo ago
    That's pretty cool. And when I first tried this, I tried to do it with a bash loop around `claude -p` and you can get quite far with that! But overall, I think I'd rather use their tools the way they've set them up to be used and pay them their $500/month total or whatever. I'm probably going to stick to this approach, but your thing is pretty neat so thank you for sharing.
  - ffb7c5 8mo ago
    Just a heads up, I tried to use the continue with google button on your site, but running into "Bot verification failed". Using stock chrome browser, not running a VPN either
    - arjie 8mo ago
      Seems like a Recaptcha failure. FWIW, I was able to sign in and everything. I didn't actually use the service though.
    - robbomacrae 8mo ago

slake 8mo ago

Funnily it seems you were already more organized than I am today before you had the *Claw. That's why you were able to transition to it as a 'life operating system'. I have too much stuff in my head and nothing written down and that's beginning to be a hindrance to the transition.

lzy 8mo ago

May I know which claw are you using and why?

swah 8mo ago

Do you keep wondering if "a simple python bot could do this" ?