I also like the callback - not sure if it's intentional - to Stross's "Lobsters" (short story that turned into the novel Accelerando).
replyPeople are not understanding that “claw” derives from the original spin on “Claude” when the original tool was called “clawdbot”
replyHe didn't name it though, Peter Steinberger did. (Kinda.)
replyHow 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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replyJust The Thing to grab life by(TM), for those who hitherto have struggled to
replyWhite Claw <- White Colla'
Another fun connection: https://www.willbyers.com/blog/white-lobster-cocaine-leucism
(Also the lobsters from Accelerando, but that's less fresh?)
Carcinization - now for your drinks AND your AI
replyWhy 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…
replyThe 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.
replyThe 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. ;-)
replyExcept Phillip K Dick calls the murder bots in Second Variety claws already so there's prior art right from the master of cyberpunk.
replyBetter to be a claw than a skinjob!
replyI 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!
reply> I don’t have a better one at hand
replyPerfect 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.
The name fits since it will claw all your personal data and files and send them somewhere else.
replyMuch like we now say somebody has been "one-shotted", might we now say they have been "clawed"?
replyI've been hoping one of them will be called Clod
replyI appreciate the sentiment, but think a homophone would be too confusing.
replyConfusion is only temporary until we're replaced by agentic giga nerd superintelligence /s
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