{"id":988173,"date":"2026-01-28T08:34:54","date_gmt":"2026-01-28T03:04:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=988173"},"modified":"2026-01-28T08:36:59","modified_gmt":"2026-01-28T03:06:59","slug":"whats-so-good-and-not-so-good-about-clawdbot-the-viral-ai-assistant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/01\/28\/whats-so-good-and-not-so-good-about-clawdbot-the-viral-ai-assistant\/","title":{"rendered":"What\u2019s so good (and not so good) about Clawdbot, the viral AI assistant"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Amid the glut of AI tools in existence today, Clawdbot has gone viral of late. It all started when the bot\u2019s GitHub repository exploded with thousands of stars (of appreciation) in a single day this month. <\/p>\n<p>But what are its promises and pitfalls? <\/p>\n<p>What is Clawdbot? <\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s an open-source agentic AI assistant that runs locally on users\u2019 computers. Created by PSPDFKit founder Peter Steinberger, this does not merely work as a chatbot, but also takes actions on a user\u2019s behalf such as monitoring emails and calendars, managing files, etc.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Amid the glut of AI tools in existence today, Clawdbot has gone viral of late. It all started when the bot\u2019s GitHub repository exploded with thousands of stars (of appreciation) in a single day this month. But what are its promises and pitfalls? What is Clawdbot? It\u2019s an open-source agentic AI assistant that runs locally on users\u2019 computers. Created by PSPDFKit founder Peter Steinberger, this does not merely work as a chatbot, but also takes actions on a user\u2019s behalf such as monitoring emails and calendars, managing files, etc.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-988173","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/988173","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=988173"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/988173\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=988173"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=988173"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=988173"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}