Another "vibe" coding-as-a-service? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46781516

Repo: https://github.com/cloudflare/moltworker

How are the vibes on this one?

On one hand, with the top comments of the rebrand post showing how many insecure deployments there are, something like this alongside cloudflare zero trust is probably a much more secure solution.

On the other hand, I just wanna point out

> Firstly, Cloudflare Workers has never been so compatible with Node.js. Where in the past we had to mock APIs to get some packages running, now those APIs are supported natively by the Workers Runtime.

Deployed a project a couple of days ago, and compared to past attempts where I had to wrangle (pun intended) with certain configs for deployment styles for node based applications, the normal build tooling just worked out of the box. Planning to move a couple of my free-from-me high DAU user projects that are on the vercel premium tier over to CF workers.

  showing how many insecure deployments there are

Clawdbot/Moltbot looks to be a supply-chain attack waiting to happen, and I pity the poor soul who finds out when this ticking time bomb eventually detonates.

There is so much branding and "look at our success" marketing that this project comes off as heavily astro-turfed. Im sure in a month or two we will hear about the new startup the developers are making around this tool.

Ultimately its a convenience wrapper that makes it easy to wire up Claude or Chatgpt to a chat platform like discord, but its claiming to be far more revolutionary for reasons I dont yet know.

AI is such a grift. Good lord in heaven, I’m so sick of seeing the same tired nonsense day after day.

HN itself is becoming AI slop.

Agent phishing is going to boom. It is wildly reckless and insecure to you hook these things up to anything you actually care about until prompt injection is no longer a thing.

These breathy blogposts are getting way ahead of their service uptime. Advertising CF Workers while your CF Worker fleet is under impact is certainly a vibe

> Workers Rate limit Degradation

> Update - We are continuing to work on a fix for this issue.

https://www.cloudflarestatus.com/incidents/dk0d6pjt9vjx

I have a bespoke local agent that I built over the last year, similar in facilities to Moltbot, but more deterministic code.

Running it this kind of agent in the cloud certainly has upsides, but also:

- All home/local integrations are gone.

- Data needs to be stored in the cloud.

No thanks.