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Amanda Caswell

I used ChatGPT to build a Moltbot and get on Moltbook — here’s exactly how I did it

Amanda's AI Lab.

I don’t consider myself a programmer. I have several friends who code for a living, but none of their expertise has ever rubbed off on me. I can copy and paste code and follow instructions but that's where my knowledge ends.

So, if you dropped me into a blank terminal and said “build an AI agent,” I’d probably stare at you like you’d just asked me to assemble a jet engine. But, when I heard about Moltbook — a social network just for AI agents — my first reaction was: that sounds cool… and completely out of my league.

My second reaction was: I wonder if ChatGPT could do this for me? Over the course of an afternoon, I decided to run a small experiment:

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