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NanoClaw and other “claws”, smaller OpenClaw-like systems that can run on personal hardware, form a new layer running on top of agents that run on LLMs

Bought a new Mac mini to properly tinker with claws over the weekend. The apple store person told me they are selling like hotcakes and everyone is confused :) I'm definitely a bit sus'd to run OpenClaw specifically - giving my private data/keys to 400K lines of vibe coded

@karpathy Andrej Karpathy

Discussion

  • @simonw Simon Willison on x
    I guess “Claw” is becoming a term of art now for the entire category of OpenClaw-like agent systems
  • @karpathy Andrej Karpathy on x
    First there was chat, then there was code, now there is claw. Ez
  • @alexfinn Alex Finn on x
    The Godfather of Vibe Coding just bought a Mac Mini and is playing with OpenClaw It's happening Personal AI assistants running on local devices is the future The people crying on the timeline saying this is a fad are passing on the most important tech advancement of our lives
  • @garrytan Garry Tan on x
    https://ironclaw.sh/ mention spotted 👀 @kumareth
  • @garysheng Gary Sheng on x
    karpathy articulates where things are going (once again)! the “skills as one-time execution” pattern is real and powerful. at the openclaw hackathon last week we explicitly discussed this: packaged markdown files that agents execute once to set up your claw, configure
  • @punk3700 @punk3700 on x
    “There is something aesthetically pleasing about there being a physical device possessed by a little ghost of a personal digital house elf.” — Andrej Karpathy This is the reason we built Lobster as the OpenClaw body. Mac mini is the wrong form factor. https://github.com/... [vide…
  • @maziyarpanahi @maziyarpanahi on x
    they got Karpathy! IT'S OVER! he tried OpenClaw 🦀 and he bought a mac mini! 😭
  • @nickco @nickco on x
    No reason to buy a Mac Mini for this, just run it on @Replit You can literally just remix this and have it running immediately: https://replit.com/... Be smarter than this hype wave especially if you're just tinkering and exploring and don't want to waste a mac-mini Literally [im…
  • @aakashgupta Aakash Gupta on x
    Karpathy buried the most interesting observation in paragraph five and moved on. He's talking about NanoClaw's approach to configuration. When you run /add-telegram, the LLM doesn't toggle a flag in a config file. It rewrites the actual source code to integrate Telegram. No