Good question, here are my thoughts:
Moltbot / Clawdbot is a glimpse into the future.
It does have one major constraint: cost.
Even with heavy optimization, I keep running into 429 rate-limit errors using hosted APIs. Others have pushed this far and still land around ~$12 per day, which is hard to justify for a personal assistant that still needs frequent troubleshooting.
I’ve considered going mostly local.
In theory, a Mac Studio with an M3 Ultra and 96 GB of unified memory running Llama 3 70B, with Claude Max as a fallback, could work technically. But at roughly $9,400 upfront plus $200 per month, the ROI is tough to rationalize.
So yeah, it's a cool toy to play around with, and you kind of enjoy fixing things that break, but as far as it being something that profoundly changes your life, nope, not there yet, unless if you're spending a lot of money.