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I hate to be an HN bikeshedder but why is everything "Claw" recently?
by ex-aws-dude 2mo ago
I hate to be an HN bikeshedder but why is everything "Claw" recently?
- consumer451 2mo agoBranding is amazing. In this case with a normal word, it's a sort of network effect? Peter Steinberger, creator of OpenClaw, just spoke at YC Startup School. The entire thing is worth a view. > There are 33,000 "claw" named repositories. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=whcfSGN6CAU&t=1450s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=whcfSGN6CAU&t=1450s
- ex-aws-dude 2mo agoWhat does it mean in general for something to be a “claw”?
- benatkin 2mo agoTo me it's like a creature. A distinguishing feature of OpenClaw is SOUL.md.
- virgildotcodes 2mo agoThe project was originally called clawdbot as it was based on Claude. Pressure from Anthropic made Peter change the name to Moltbot, which everyone thought sounded gross, so he changed it again to openclaw, with a lobster mascot.
- Cordiali 2mo agoIt's just the natural evolution of AI into a crab.
- bonoboTP 2mo agoBecause it's a buzzword. It causes buzz. Putting it together with "world" makes it buzz even more because people want to talk about world models all the time (it doesn't matter what the actual input and output is, just that it's a world model, not some meagerly language model, it models all the world, much better than modeling just boring old language), as well as about claws. So that's why.