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
@karpathy Andrej Karpathy
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Discussion
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@nickco
@nickco
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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…
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@aakashgupta
Aakash Gupta
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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
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@alexfinn
Alex Finn
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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
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@garysheng
Gary Sheng
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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
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@punk3700
@punk3700
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“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…
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@simonw
Simon Willison
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I guess “Claw” is becoming a term of art now for the entire category of OpenClaw-like agent systems
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@karpathy
Andrej Karpathy
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First there was chat, then there was code, now there is claw. Ez
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@garrytan
Garry Tan
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https://ironclaw.sh/ mention spotted 👀 @kumareth
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@maziyarpanahi
@maziyarpanahi
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they got Karpathy! IT'S OVER! he tried OpenClaw 🦀 and he bought a mac mini! 😭