Branding is amazing. In this case with a normal word, it's a sort of network effect?
replyPeter Steinberger, creator of OpenClaw, just spoke at YC Startup School. The entire thing is worth a view.
> There are 33,000 "claw" named repositories.
What does it mean in general for something to be a “claw”?
replyThe 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.
replyTo me it's like a creature. A distinguishing feature of OpenClaw is SOUL.md.
replyBecause 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.
replyIt's just the natural evolution of AI into a crab.
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