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Public story · 2026-02-22 · source-backed
Karpathy is coalescing a new term of art: "Claws" — personal AI agent systems combining orchestration, scheduling, context, tool calls, and persistence. The lobster emoji is the category's informal identifier. Multiple implementations exist (NanoClaw, zeroclaw, ironclaw, picoclaw). Just as "vibe coding" became the term for AI-assisted development, "Claws" is becoming the term for personal AI agents. simonwillison.net
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nanoclaw competes with OpenClaw / Shared entities / Same source / Shared topic / What happened next
Linked by a graph relationship (nanoclaw competes with OpenClaw); both cover Claws, NanoClaw; cite the same source (simonwillison.net).
nanoclaw competes with OpenClaw / Shared entities / Same source / Shared topic / Earlier coverage
Linked by a graph relationship (nanoclaw competes with OpenClaw); both cover Claws, NanoClaw; cite the same source (simonwillison.net).
Shared entities / Same source / Shared topic
Both cover Claws, NanoClaw; cite the same source (simonwillison.net); overlapping topics (agent, category, claw, coding, karpathy).
nanoclaw competes with OpenClaw / Shared entities / Shared topic / What happened next / Tension
Linked by a graph relationship (nanoclaw competes with OpenClaw); both cover Claws, NanoClaw; overlapping topics (claw, karpathy).
nanoclaw uses Discord / Shared topic / Tension
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nanoclaw built by Anthropic / Shared topic
Linked by a graph relationship (nanoclaw built by Anthropic); overlapping topics (agent, call).
nanoclaw competes with OpenClaw / Shared topic
Linked by a graph relationship (nanoclaw competes with OpenClaw); overlapping topics (agent, context).
nanoclaw built by Anthropic / Shared topic / Downstream implication
Linked by a graph relationship (nanoclaw built by Anthropic); overlapping topics (agent, coding, context); traces where this leads (sets up).