Andrej Karpathy talks about “Claws” Simon Willison’s Weblog Subscribe Sponsored by: Teleport — Secure, Govern, and Operate AI at Engineering Scale. Learn more 21st February 2026 Andrej Karpathy talks about “Claws” . Andrej Karpathy tweeted a mini-essay about buying a Mac Mini (“The apple store person told me they are selling like hotcakes and everyone is confused”) to tinker with Claws: I’m definitely a bit sus’d to run OpenClaw specifically […] But I do love the concept and I think that just like LLM agents were a new layer on top of LLMs, Claws are now a new layer on top of LLM agents, taking the orchestration, scheduling, context, tool calls and a kind of persistence to a next level. Looking around, and given that the high level idea is clear, there are a lot of smaller Claws starting to pop out. For example, on a quick skim NanoClaw looks really interesting in that the core engine is ~4000 lines of code (fits into both my head and that of AI agents, so it feels manageable, auditable, flexible, etc.) and runs everything in containers by default. […] Anyway there are many others – e.g. nanobot, zeroclaw, ironclaw, picoclaw (lol @ prefixes). […] Not 100% sure what my setup ends up looking like just yet but Claws are an awesome, exciting new layer of the AI stack. Andrej has an ear for fresh terminology (see vibe coding , agentic engineering ) and I think he’s right about this one, too: ” Claw ” is becoming a term of art for the entire category of OpenClaw-like agent systems – AI agents that generally run on personal hardware, communicate via messaging protocols and can both act on direct instructions and schedule tasks. It even comes with an established emoji 🦞 Posted 21st February 2026 at 12:37 am Recent articles Adding TILs, releases, museums, tools and research to my blog – 20th February 2026 Two new Showboat tools: Chartroom and datasette-showboat – 17th February 2026 Deep Blue – 15th February 2026 This is a link post by Simon Willison, posted on 21st February 2026 . definitions 47 ai 1862 andrej-karpathy 38 generative-ai 1649 llms 1614 ai-agents 106 openclaw 6 Monthly briefing Sponsor me for $10/month and get a curated email digest of the month’s most important LLM developments. Pay me to send you less! Sponsor & subscribe Disclosures Colophon © 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 2023 2024 2025 2026

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