Casey, let's talk about Mold Book.

Let's talk about Maltbook, Kevin.

Rarely in the history of our show have we gotten so many emails, texts, requests from people to cover a topic as we have gotten over the past week about this new social network for bots.

It's true. And we got so many of them that we thought, why don't we

let our listeners use us like AI agents? And just by typing under their keyboards, they can

actually move our physical bodies into the studio to record an episode. Exactly. And I think part of

why people were asking us to cover this is because it's just kind of a weird and fun, hard, forky

story. But people are also freaking out about this. Like, this is sort of taken just kind of a weird and fun, hard, forky story. But people are also

freaking out about this. Like, this is sort of taken over the little corner of the internet that

you and I both occupy. People are saying, you know, this is the start of the singularity. Oh,

my God, the agents are coming. And other people are saying, hey, let's not get too excited.

This is just a social network where robots are writing

stuff. So let's try to figure out today what we think about it and whether this is actually a big

deal or not. Yeah. And I would also add that from all the messages that we got from listeners,

it wasn't totally clear to me if they wanted us to talk about Molt Book because they think that

it is just funny and they want us to point

and laugh at it, or they think it is like a vision of the future that they want us to help

them understand. And so what I can promise you today is that we're going to do a little bit of both.

Yes. Okay. So, Casey, let's start with what is it? What is Mold Book? How did it get here?

And what are people saying about it?

Yeah, so all of this started with the creation of something we talked about in our most recent

episode, Claudebot. Claudebot is an open source locally running AI agent. You can put it

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