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Re:Claws are now a new layer on top of LLM agents by corndoge on Sunday February 22, 2026 @12:04PM (#47112636)
It is being discussed as though it were ontologically novel, karpathy is saying it's something new and he is an authority, so to me there is something here that i am not seeing. I promise i am not trying to be a naysayer or poke holes, I am literally just trying to find out what the hell it is. I would install it but i don't want to install something without knowing what it does, and what is written in the docs is clear as mud.
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Re:Claws are now a new layer on top of LLM agents by shikon7 on Sunday February 22, 2026 @12:42PM (#47112949)
It's not new in the sense that any of its components are new, and it's not new in the sense that similar things had not been done before, it's new in the sense that putting the right components together in the right way suddenly created something capable of starting a viral hype.

Essentially, as I understand it, it is a personal AI assistant running on your computer, integrated with different systems (like email, chat).

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Re:Claws are now a new layer on top of LLM agents by tw04 on Sunday February 22, 2026 @02:53PM (#47114045)
You’re currently arguing dropbox wasn’t novel because you could do everything it could do by hand.

99% of the general AI utilizing public has no desire to build and maintain what you’re doing.

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Re:Claws are now a new layer on top of LLM agents by corndoge on Monday February 23, 2026 @12:03PM (#47125087)
I am not arguing, merely seeking to understand. I'm not saying it isn't novel. I'm saying that I don't understand what is novel about it and seeking clarity.

The answer seems to be simply that it is all of the extant technologies productized for normies, a la Dropbox. Satisfactory answer, got what I was looking for, thank you! As a dropbox user, I may buy a mac mini and try it :-)

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Re:Claws are now a new layer on top of LLM agents by derivagral on Sunday February 22, 2026 @08:23PM (#47116868)
Nontechnical people I know are buying hardware to run claws on. As I understand it, the innovation here isn't the tech but in availability/ease of access.
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