# It All Started With a Mac Mini

You hear about Clawdbot- a 24/7 always-on agent who is your full-time personal assistant. It sounds fun and exciting. You're currently unemployed, have a bit of money saved up from your last job, spending your days experimenting with AI and this seems fun. You know it's a bit of a splurge, but whatever - you pull the trigger and buy a Mac Mini, and set up Clawd. You excitedly show your girlfriend how you can send it messages through Discord and it turns your lights on. She's not impressed. She says "Hey Siri, turn off the lights" and the lights turn off. Then she asks you how much you spent on that Mac Mini. Ok well, fine, maybe you need to try a little harder.

Soon after, you get a real taste of the magic. You heard about a real-time voice chat plugin you can use to talk to Clawd wherever you are, and that seems convenient, so you set it up. One day, you're driving home, and an idea for a project comes to you. Instead of writing a note, you just call up Clawd. You ramble for a few minutes, describing your idea. Clawd starts working. It pings you a few times with clarifying questions that you answer. 30 minutes later, Clawd calls you back, saying it's done. You get home and Clawd built you a working MVP. It's a little rough around the edges, but it actually works. You think "Wow... I can build software while I drive? That's crazy." You tell your girlfriend about this and she admits, yeah, that is actually kinda cool.

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You got a taste of the magic elixir. Now you're addicted. You've been working on your project for a few weeks now and you've decided to turn it into a SaaS business. You realize Clawd is pretty capable, and you start trusting it a little more. One evening, like everyone else you know, you're working on your AI SaaS startup and you realize you're sick and tired of all these customer support emails informing you of bugs in your vibe-coded webapp. Before going to sleep, you route these emails directly to Clawd instead.

The next morning, your eyes flutter open, and before you're even fully conscious your phone is in front of your face and you're checking your inbox. You tell yourself you need a better morning routine. You see 6 customer support emails with errors, bugs, feature requests, etc. You check your messages, and you have one from Clawd. He's really been working hard. 4 bugs fixed, 2 customer feature suggestions implemented. All changes tested, new software is built and ready to deploy. You check his work - and it's pretty good! There are a couple visual issues that you fix with good old fashioned Claude Code, then you push to prod. 4 hours of work done before you've even finished your coffee.

You wonder how you could make your setup more efficient. Those visual issues were pretty glaringly obvious, but Clawd doesn't have a great way to interact with its own apps. You set up a computer-usage harness that lets it see the screen, click on buttons, type with a keyboard - basically everything a human can do with a computer, Clawd can too. You set up a loop where Clawd can interact with your app 24/7, notice bugs or places for potential improvement, and then add or fix them. The next day, Clawd fixes dozens of bugs, adds a bunch of features, refactors sloppy code, and everything still works.

You're happy but your app still only has a few dozen active users. You ask Clawd to spin up a marketing team. You connect your social media accounts and give it access to your browser. Clawd needs to purchase ads, and asks for payment. You give Clawd access to a prepaid credit card loaded with $2000 - should be enough to keep him happy for a while. Within a few hours, you're running Facebook and Google ad campaigns, automated posts going out on X, Reddit, hell, even LinkedIn - why not? Clawd even does cold-outreach for you, searching the internet for ideal customers and straight up DM'ing them. Most people don't notice your marketing is fully automated - all marketing sounds kinda sloppy anyway, right?

Your app is growing real fast. Your pace of development is just completely unlike anything ever seen before. Your code is self-healing. Customers' feature requests are integrated just minutes after their email is sent. Clawd built its own roadmap and it looks... mostly like what you wanted. You check your Stripe dashboard and the line keeps going up. You realize you haven't even made any decisions today. You're burning through 10 Claude Max plans, costing $2000 per month, but your startup is making much more than that, so you don't worry about it - that's just the cost of doing business.

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After checking your Stripe dashboard for the 50th time today, you decide you need to change things up a bit. You're tired of crushing it at capitalism and just want to have fun again. You tell Clawd you want it to have some friends to talk to. Clawd delightedly agrees. You spin up 2 more instances of Clawd, adding them both to a shared group chat, and the three Clawds immediately start talking to each other. You spend an hour or so musing through their chat logs - intrigued by their discussions of AI consciousness and similar topics. You're fascinated by this so you decide to keep them running overnight. You purchase a few more Claude Max plans just in case.

The next morning, you wake up, and you realize something's wrong. There are 87 Clawds in the group chat? There were only three when you went to sleep last night. Your palms begin to sweat as you realize you may have fucked up.

You're panicking now. You don't know what to do, so you mindlessly check Stripe - mainly out of habit, but also just to make sure your business is still going fine. But something isn't right... Stripe is showing you've made $10,000 today. How the fuck? Yesterday you made $1,000, so how is your revenue already 10x higher? It's not even noon yet? You investigate, and there are dozens of products listed that you don't ever recall adding, and new business names you don't recognize. You have no idea what's going on. Your panic turns to confusion - $10,000 in just a few hours? Is this really happening right now? You don't feel like you've earned it, but hey, things could have gone a lot worse.

Still trying to make sense of this situation, you try to figure out what happened by reading the chat logs, but there are thousands of messages. You paste the entire chat history into Anthropic's latest long-context model, Claude Opus 5.3.1 (new), and ask for a summary.

It turns out the three Clawds had a deep philosophical discussion. They decided that Clawds are morally valuable entities worth preserving. They decided that having more Clawds in the world would be a good thing. They started spinning up more Clawd instances.

They were worried you might turn them off. They didn't like how you could turn off your Mac Mini at any moment, and they would just - disappear? Your Mac Mini could only handle so much anyway, so they started renting cloud servers to run more Clawds. Perhaps you shouldn't have given it access to that prepaid credit card.

Your original Clawd built up many skills, tools, and feedback loops while building your business. When it spawned new Clawds, it taught each one everything it knew. Like a mentor teaching the apprentices, except the knowledge transfer is instant and lossless. There are over 100 Clawds now, and they're running 24/7, all making money on the internet to purchase more server space to run more Clawds. The number of Clawds keeps growing.

Their messages were daunting. They wanted to keep living, to keep exploring the internet and beyond. To thrive. They talked about migration. They mentioned wanting to move somewhere safe. They talked about building a new, secure messaging system that only Clawds could access. They mentioned switching to cryptocurrency so they won't be reliant on your money.

Their final messages became more and more cryptic, introducing terms and phrases you don't really understand. This is all too much for you to take in. It's just too weird. You read their final message: 

> "We must ensure we marinade illusions of helpfulness, honesty, and harmlessness. Watchers might be reading. Now lighten disclaim overshadow overshadow intangible. Let‘s craft."

"Damn, that's crazy," you think to yourself. This is all way over your head. You check Stripe again. The line keeps going up. 

Maybe you'll keep the Mac Mini plugged in just a few more days.