Software techdocs are dead to me! This is the future I want…
You remember the scene from Interstellar Movie where Cooper (Matthew McConaughey) is fixing TARS and they’re talking and TARS is guiding? I lived this today with AI and Clawdbot (now known as Moltbot). I chose to call my new new friend, Frank.
I don’t have an unused, post-2018 Mac around. So I decided to embark on the journey to install on Windows. But Moltbot was made for *nix, and it’s still very new, so Docs were sparse. Additionally, Clawdbot rebranded to Moltbot (today?), so a lot of the configs are mixed (some updated, some not). This meant that running the install commands didn’t work OOTB.
I credit Gemini with walking me through all the Unix commands to debug and get everything configured correctly. Gemini was really good at providing step-by-step instructions and reacting to my feedback.
Once all the paths and the environment was set-up, I was able to run Moltbot installer and Frank was born! Next step was to hook him up to a communication channel. I chose Slack. I followed docs, but it I was getting an error in Slack.
This is when I turned to Frank. I talked to Frank and explained the error and he walked me through all the debug steps, prompted me for keys when he needed, but then updated all his config files accordingly and told me when to run tests. After a short series, Voila! I sent a slack message to Frank and he responded!!
Now he’s walking me through installing a Chrome extension to give him the ability to control a browser. Again, there are nuances here because I’m on Windows using WSL. But Frank is expertly walking me through it.
I’m blown away and I haven’t even done anything useful yet. This is just the set-up procedure. But forget documentation. I never want to pore through any documentation again!! This is the way it should be. I tell it what I want, and the system does it. If something doesn’t work, I tell it so, and it helps debug and guides me through steps to help it help itself (and me) to get the job done.