I hate to be an HN bikeshedder but why is everything "Claw" recently?

bonoboTP 3 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Because 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.

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consumer451 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Branding 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

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ex-aws-dude 4 hours ago | parent [-]

What does it mean in general for something to be a “claw”?

	▲	benatkin 4 hours ago \| parent [-]
		To me it's like a creature. A distinguishing feature of OpenClaw is SOUL.md.

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Cordiali 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

It's just the natural evolution of AI into a crab.