alt Hacker NewsKarpathy 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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arrowsmith • today at 10:24 AM
He didn't name it though, Peter Steinberger did. (Kinda.)
UncleMeat • today at 12:38 PM
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 • today at 10:30 AM
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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dakolli • today at 11:27 AM
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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?)