IIRC the creator specifically said he's not reviewing any of the submissions and users should just be careful and vet skills themselves. Not sure who OpenClaw/Clawhub/Moltbook/Clawdbot/(anything I missed) was marketed at, but I assume most people won't bother looking at the source code of skills.
"There's about 1 Million things people want me to do, I don't have a magical team that verifies user generated content. Can shut it down or people us their brain when finding skills."
Users should be careful and vet skills themselves, but also they should give their agent root access to their machine so it can just download whatever skills it needs to execute your requests.
Somehow I doubt the people who don't even read the code their own agent creates were saving that time to instead read the code of countless dependencies across all future updates.
The author also claims to make hundreds of commits a day without slop, while not reading any of it. The fact anyone falls for this bullshit is very worrying.
It swings both ways though. I've seen plenty of older engineers dismiss the "new guys" effort and claim that everything had to be custom written, because there's no way a common framework like Django could cover their use case. The same type of engineer has never once worked with a common framework though, so they don't know what's included nowadays.
Turns out it's a lot easier to build on top of a common framework than do everything from scratch.
Personally, I'd just use common sense and good judgment. At the end of the day, would you want someone to hand your address, and other private data to OpenAI just like that? Probably not. So don't paste customer data into it if you can avoid it.
On the other hand, minified code is literally published by the company. Everyone can see it and do with it as they please. So handing that over to an AI to un-minify is not really your problem, since you're not the developer working on the tool internally.
Presumably they'll threaten to sue you and/or file a criminal complaint, which can be pretty hard to deal with depending on the jurisdiction. At that point you'll probably start asking yourself if it's worth publishing a blog post for some internet points.
Personally, I'd expect Claude Code not to have such far-reaching access across my filesystem if it only asks me for permission to work and run things within a given project.
That's a good catch. I knew these flags existed, but I figured they'd require at least a human in the loop to verify, similar to how Claude Code currently asks for permission to run code in the current directory.
Probably because "HN" is not an entity with a single mind, but rather a group of millions each with their own backgrounds, experiences, desires, and biases?
Talk to people outside tech. Lots of small problems worth solving, but not in tech. Also, just because it's a problem in someone's day to day won't mean they'll pay to fix it.
"just because it's a problem in someone's day to day won't mean they'll pay to fix it."
The best way to measure is that they've hacked a solution themselves using inferior tools. This is where the 10x recommendation comes to mind - you can do it cheaper, faster, better.
Or, far more likely, they'll reach out to someone in their network. To land in that network, you have to market your services. LinkedIn is somewhat useful for that, but less so nowadays.
I guess the thinking goes like this: Why start a business, get a higher paying job etc if you're getting ~2k€/mo in UBI and can live off of that? Since more people will decide against starting a business or increasing their income, productive activity decreases.
I see more people starting businesses because they now have less risk, more people not changing jobs just to get a pay hike. The sort of financial aid UBI would bring might even make people more productive on the whole, since people who are earning have spare income for quality of life, and people with financial risk are able to work without being worried half the day about paying rent and bills.
It's a bit of a dunk on people who see their position as employer/supervisor as a source of power because they can impose financial risk as punishment on people, which happens more often than any of us care to think, but isn't that a win? Or are we conceding that modern society is driven more by stick than carrot and we want it that way?
