| ▲ | 7777777phil 4 hours 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. |
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| ▲ | gsf_emergency_6 21 minutes ago | parent | next [-] |
| Just The Thing to grab life by(TM), for those who hitherto have struggled to White Claw <- White Colla' https://www.whiteclaw.com/ Another fun connection:
https://www.willbyers.com/blog/white-lobster-cocaine-leucism (Also the lobsters from Accelerando, but that's less fresh?) |
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| ▲ | dakolli 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| He's basically just a marketing guy now for the AI industry. |
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| ▲ | arrowsmith 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| He didn't name it though, Peter Steinberger did. (Kinda.) |
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| ▲ | UncleMeat an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| How 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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| ▲ | 9dev 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-] |
| Why 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… |
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| ▲ | keiferski 3 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | The 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. | | |
| ▲ | anewhnaccount2 2 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | Except Phillip K Dick calls the murder bots in Second Variety claws already so there's prior art right from the master of cyberpunk. | |
| ▲ | m4rtink 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | The 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. ;-) |
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| ▲ | mmasu 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | I 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! | |
| ▲ | JumpCrisscross 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | > 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 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | The name fits since it will claw all your personal data and files and send them somewhere else. | | |
| ▲ | jcgrillo 2 hours ago | parent [-] | | Much like we now say somebody has been "one-shotted", might we now say they have been "clawed"? |
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| ▲ | jcgrillo 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | I've been hoping one of them will be called Clod |
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