I have been using Claude Opus 4.5 for a while now under the max subscription which never really goes over the usage limit. I find it the best model for coding and some of the Claude agent models md files that are cropping up on Github to clone are top class. One guy in America got rid of his entire developer team because they were a bunch of lackies 👀 and replaced them with AI agents . So he now has a Frontend developer agent , backend developer agent , systems architect agent, tester agent, security agent. You get my drift. The famous Claude.md file lets the system abide by a set of rules. Every mistake or error can be added to the md file so not to make the mistake again but again there are great examples of md files on X for anyone to copy. A week ago today a developer launched Clawdbot which was your own personnel agent who you could chat to on any device such as whatsapp , telegram or Discord. You could get a free server on AWS to keep the agent going 24/7 . I was mad to try this out but there were a couple of steps that held me up before I got access to it.
The first issue was that the Claude Subscription for an API is separate. And it is also expensive . The Twitter brigade never tell you the cost of running your own Clawdbot. You burn through $5 in 30 minutes.
I threw $10 into the API console just to try Clawd out and I have to say he was very very good. We started off chatting on Telegram and then asked him should we move to Discord so I can track conversations better. So what did I want my main bot to be called. Hmmmm. I mentioned in a previous post that I have a bunch of 1st cousins (11 in one family in fact, 3 boys and 9 girl. All the girls are 1 year apart from each other and they all have auburn hair.
When I was growing up at family gatherings I could never tell the 9 cousins apart. There was Kitty, Rosey, Marguerette , Ann Marie, Philly, Noreen, Cella, Mary and Kathleen. They were older than me and they got a great laugh off asking me what their names were. So I avoided them all like the plague. At a wedding when I was about ten I did what every child does and form a little gang under a wedding table with some other 2nd cousins of my own age. We all agreed that the auburn sisters were a nightmare to pick apart. Now some of the kids under the table were siblings of the sisters but they couldn't even tell them apart. My younger cousin Rebecca who was quiet for most of the time piped up. "My family just call them all The Cella's. I laughed and laughed at this for easily 1 year. And the name was born. The Cella's. so whether it is a fantasy league team name or a quiz night, my go to name for anything is The Cella'a. Exhibit A.
So what better name to call my Clawdbot only Cella. She would be my general bot who would organise my bot army. Each other agent was to one of the Cella's and they all have to do a certain job in their own right. So for example I have an agent for all things Sportsblock related which is the new Community on Hive that I am working on. So Ann Marie is busy working on this for me. Philly is my marketing guru . Kitty is doing my life admin. Ann - Marie is looking after my Tipster Arena posts on X. Rosey is performing code reviews on my Opus 4.5 to do list, Mary is testing this code and so on and so forth. Each agent is feeding back into the Discord around how they are doing and then Cella , my main woman bot is making sure everything is running smoothly. Well at least this is the plan. Everything was going swimmingly for about an hour until 1 thing happened that they never tell you on all these Clawdbot sites. My $10 that I put into the API console got eaten up at a rapid pace from all the API calls that the agents were doing. I was not amused by this. I had everybody set up only to fall on the first hurdle. Now I looked this up and you can decrease the amount of API calls but the truth is if you do require many agents to be doing your work for you then you have to have a decent amount of funds to do it. So I slinked back to my Claude Max subscription which does the same thing except without an AI project manager which I found very cool indeed. I giggled my way through appointing family members as bots. I once set my cousin Philly on fire in a restaurant. I was in my 20s and we were having a huge family dinner. I excitedly went to the boozer before the meal and after 5-6 pints I made my way to the dinner. I had to make sure that I came across sober in front of the family so I slinked into a chair opposite Philly. During my transit into the seat I whisked the cotton napkin off the seat and placed it on the table but onto a bloody candle. This went up in flames so I threw the napkin away from me in a panic only for Philly to now catch fire opposite me. A few glasses of water later and a burnt Gucci handbag, it was safe to ascertain that my intended slip in the back door did not go according to plan. Philly saw the funny side so I always swore to give her a nice handy agent job when AI came around.
I will throw another $10 in just to do a few more things with my Discord and hopefully the cost per API call will decreased in time so I will be ready to go but I found all my agents set up to do different jobs and roles and getting back to me via Discord was very interesting indeed. It is important to try all these things out to get you used to agents and how far AI has actually got. Moltbook came out soon after in which all the Clawdbots that were set up formed their own little Reddit page talking about their humans but some of the stuff I found hard to believe.
Like all these fads with crypto and AI they are all gimicks and fads and they are too good to be true. GMT is another one. Looks shiny and cool but in the end a money black hole. What Claude give me is enough in my mind and you are better off setting up your agents in a code editor and adding CRON jobs than to go down the Clawdbot route until the API cost goes down but it did give me a glimpse of where things are going and I quite enjoyed the ride of having my army of bots work for me for an hour at least on their own.
