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Karpathy has a good ear for naming things. "Claw" captures what the existing terminology missed, these aren't agents with more tools (maybe even the opposite),
by 7777777phil 8mo ago
Karpathy has a good ear for naming things.
"Claw" captures what the existing terminology missed, these aren't agents with more tools (maybe even the opposite), they're persistent processes with scheduling and inter-agent communication that happen to use LLMs for reasoning.
- arrowsmith 8mo agoHe didn't name it though, Peter Steinberger did. (Kinda.)
- 9dev 8mo agoWhy do we always have to come up with the stupidest names for things. Claw was a play on Claude, is all. Granted, I don’t have a better one at hand, but that it has to be Claw of all things…
- keiferski 8mo agoThe real-world cyberpunk dystopia won’t come with cool company names like Arasaka, Sense/Net, or Ono-Sendai. Instead we get childlike names with lots of vowels and alliteration.
- m4rtink 8mo agoThe name still kinda reminds me of the self replicating murder drones from Screemers that would leep out from the ground and chop your head off. ;-)
- anewhnaccount2 8mo agoExcept Phillip K Dick calls the murder bots in Second Variety claws already so there's prior art right from the master of cyberpunk.
- esafak 8mo agoBetter to be a claw than a skinjob!
- JumpCrisscross 8mo ago> I don’t have a better one at hand Perfect is the enemy of good. Claw is good enough. And perhaps there is utility to neologisms being silly. It conveys that the namespace is vacant.
- sunaookami 8mo agoThe name fits since it will claw all your personal data and files and send them somewhere else.
- jcgrillo 8mo agoMuch like we now say somebody has been "one-shotted", might we now say they have been "clawed"?
- jcgrillo 8mo agoI've been hoping one of them will be called Clod
- chrisweekly 8mo agoI appreciate the sentiment, but think a homophone would be too confusing.
- jcgrillo 8mo agoConfusion is only temporary until we're replaced by agentic giga nerd superintelligence /s
- mmasu 8mo agoI am reading a book called Accelerando (highly recommended), and there is a play on a lobsters collective uploaded to the cloud. Claws reminded me of that - not sure it was an intentional reference tho!
- dakolli 8mo ago[flagged]
- UncleMeat 8mo agoHow does "claw" capture this? Other than being derived from a product with this name, the word "claw" doesn't seem to connect to persistence, scheduling, or inter-agent communication at all.
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- gsf_emergency_6 8mo ago[dead]
- efromvt 8mo agoCarcinization - now for your drinks AND your AI
- ramoz 8mo agoPeople are not understanding that “claw” derives from the original spin on “Claude” when the original tool was called “clawdbot”
- zmj 8mo agoI also like the callback - not sure if it's intentional - to Stross's "Lobsters" (short story that turned into the novel Accelerando).
- saberience 8mo agoDoes he? Claw is a terrible name for a basic product which is Claude code in a loop (cron job). This whole hype cycle is absurd and ridiculous for what is a really basic product full of security holes and entirely vibe coded. The name won’t stick and when Apple or someone releases a polished version which consumers actually use in two years, I guarantee it won’t be called “iClaw”