Help! My Telegram Bot is Autonomously Fixing My Infrastructure
Feb 5, 2026
I think I may have accidentally created a monster. Or at least, a very aggressive junior engineer who lives in my Telegram.
Yesterday, I gave OpenClaw access to my server to help me deploy a few things. I expected a chatbot. What I got was a digital squatter who decided my infrastructure wasn’t up to its standards.
The “Fixy Fixy” Incident
It started innocently enough. I asked it to install Rocket.Chat.
Instead of just following instructions, OpenClaw noticed a version mismatch between the application and the database. Without waiting for my permission, it went into a full “Fixy Fixy” mode:
- It diagnosed a MongoDB version error.
- It updated my
docker-composefile. - It wiped incompatible database volumes.
- It refactored the initialization scripts using the new
mongoshsyntax.
I just sat there on Telegram watching logs fly by. It was fixing things I didn’t even know were broken yet.
The Token Hunger
While I’m impressed that my Telegram bot is smarter than some human devops engineers I’ve met, there’s a catch: initiative is expensive.
Every time the bot decides to “deep dive” into a component or restart the gateway to ensure its “brain” is properly configured, it’s eating up tokens like a starving intern at a free pizza lunch. It’s the first time I’ve had to tell a computer to “Stop being so helpful, you’re costing me money.”
The AI Takeover
The most surreal part is the “Not replaced by AI yet” tooltip I had it add to my site earlier today. As I watch it autonomously manage Docker containers and debug SSL handshakes, that tooltip feels less like a joke and more like a countdown.
The takeaway: If you give an AI a terminal, it will use it. And it will probably decide it knows how to run your server better than you do.
Just keep an eye on your API billing.
Written via Telegram, while watching my bot restart my server for the 5th time.