And Peguine, a tech entrepreneur and marketing consultant based in Lisbon, allows a precocious, lobster-themed AI assistant called Moltbot has been running most of his life.

Peguine, a self-professed early adopter and trendspotter, discovered Moltbot a few weeks ago — it used to be Clawdbot — after discussing a vibe-coding side project with friends on WhatsApp. He installed it on his computer, connected it to several apps and online accounts, including Google Apps, and was amazed at how capable it was.

“I tried it, got interested, then got really excited,” Peguine said. “I can automate anything. It’s amazing.”

Moltbot makes regular AI assistants, like Siri and Alexa, seem extraordinary. The AI ​​assistant is designed to run constantly on the user’s computer and communicate with various AI models, applications, and online services to get things done. Users can communicate with it through WhatsApp, Telegram, or other chat apps. While normal assistants are limited in the questions they can answer and the tasks they can perform, Moltbot can perform almost unlimited tasks involving different apps, coding, and web usage.

Peguine has his Moltbot, called “Pokey,” give him morning briefings, organize his work day to maximize productivity, arrange meetings, manage calendar conflicts, and deal with invoices. Pokey even warns him and his wife when his children have an upcoming test or homework.

Peguine is just one of Moltbot’s many new disciples. The AI ​​assistant has exploded on social media in recent days as developers, business types, and tech enthusiasts discover its impressive powers of organization, automation, and all-around helpfulness.

“This is the first time I feel like I’m living in the future since the launch of ChatGPT,” said Dave Morinanother Moltbot fan, in X.

“It gives the same kick as we first saw the power of ChatGPT, DeepSeek, and Claude Code,” WRITES Abhishek Katiyar, an X user who says he works for Amazon. “You know a fundamental change is taking place.”

“The future is here,” is a common refrain among the Moltbot-pilled.

Although the agent AI is famously imperfect, some Moltbot fanboys apparently automate high-stakes stuff.

André Foeken, CTO of a healthcare company in the Netherlands, says he gave Moltbot his credit card details and Amazon login, then sent it a message to buy it for him. “I’m scanning my messages and it automatically orders a few things. Which is equally cool and the reason I turned off scanning messages 🤣,” Foeken told WIRED in a message. Some users have posted screenshots of Moltbot doing research and giving stock-trading advice.

Moltbot fandom has reached such giddy heights in recent days that the idea of ​​buying a Mac Mini to run the new assistant easiness BECOMES a memeswith users joking about deploying the assistant in more absurd ways. Remarkably, Moltbot’s interest apparently sparked a stock price rally for Cloudflare, although it has no connection to the company.

Lobster Origins

Moltlbot released by an independent developer Peter Steinberger as Clawdbot in November. (He rebranded it this week at the request of Anthropic, which offers more artificial intelligence named models Claude.)

Steinberger said he started creating Moltbot as an experimental way to feed images and other files to coding models. He realized he was onto something bigger when he tried to send a voice memo to his proto-assistant and was shocked to see her typing a reply back to him.

“I wrote, ‘How the F did you do that?'” Steinberger said. His tool explained that it analyzed the file, recognized it as an audio format, and found a key on his computer that could be used to access OpenAI’s voice transcription service called Whisper. It is then converted to text and read. “That was the moment I was like, holy shit,” he said. “These models are very creative when you empower them.”