I had to finally try out Molty, the much-hyped always-on (persistent) chat bot everyone seems to be talking about online over the last week or so.
Everything worked as expected. I set up a Hetzner VPS for about $10/month, and used Claude Code on my IPE (see my IDE-to-IPE explainer for what that means) to install OpenClaw and then entered an Anthropic API token which was connected to my account so that Molty could come to life.
One thing I quickly learned: API calls are very expensive. Relative to tapping into my normal Claude Max plan ($100/month) it seemed to chug through tokens at an extreme rate. So Loni Stark and I immediately wanted to learn more about Token Economics, a concept Loni first explored during our Third Mind AI Summit.