Ask HN: Are you that busy? About Clawdbot

2 pointsdakiol1mo ago2 comments

So the other day I read the post https://brandon.wang/2026/clawdbot, and what surprised me wasn’t the AI part of it, but how busy the author is. I really believe he needs all that AI help to get on with his life, because I would be overwhelmed by so much busyness. I'm a tech guy, and I also have meetings and appointments like any of you, but I cannot deal with that amount of activity/notifications/management in my life. I try to keep things simple (I don't keep a todo list for the items in our fridge, I try to remember, and yeah, sometimes we forget to buy eggs, but such is life). I don't like to be "on top of things" all the time.

So, is that how most of you also live (like the author)? Perhaps Im missing something (FOMO, you know), but I guess even if that's the case, I think that should be fine too; i mean it's fine to miss things (that's like being mortal, that's what makes other things more important I guess).

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brdd1mo ago

OP here!

i am actually very anti-notification (almost all are disabled; i use the iphone "notification summary" feature to get them delivered a few times a day only).

i do want to be on top of things and hate the feeling when i've double-booked myself or promised someone something that i forget. (i don't catalog everything in my fridge; the example was for a "deep freezer" i keep in the back room. this is super common for most suburban households but maybe lost on international audiences)

i am a normal level of busy and i think i was trying to have a bit of fun with creating things with a very low threshold for how good they had to be. i'm not bothered by everyone's speculations about me — i wanted to provoke some conversation — but this really is just about a bit of joy and building things i use every day makes me happy. people think it's cool that my calendar events make themselves.

hope this context helps :)

verdverm1mo ago

> how busy the author is

The speculation is that the author is not actually busy, but that they hang out with a crowd that thinks saying this is a way to success (the Thiel circle)

The commentary is under the big story from yesterday (or this week)

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