I think claws is a great name. They let the AI go grab things. They snap away and get stuff done. Claws are powerful and everything that has claws is cool.

Some of this may be slightly satirical.

(But I still think “claws” works better than “personal assistant” which anthropomorphises the technology too much.)

You mean "grab things in the digital world?" Like virtual things?

Things in the digital world, your bank balance, your sanity, passers-by around the neck. You name it!

Claws are also potentially dangerous so it is a pretty apt analogy.

That’s also very apt yes.

This is very well written. I have fairly low interest in video games and rarely read gaming content, but read this all the way through. That’s an achievement in itself!

I figured the engineering crowd here would enjoy the technical journey and I am so grateful it got to front page so that I may talk about the technical side which I enjoy doing. I am not a hermit by nature and posting on HN really was a cry for someone to ask me a question about the backend. So I really appreciate all the technical questions gives me an opportunity to get into the weeds a bit.

To be able to write this well and this engagingly is a real talent. And it worked - I sent this to three friends who I always gently mock for playing games that are, effectively, spreadsheets. Two of them said it looks exactly like the sort of thing they will enjoy!

I’m sure it would rain all the time in Star Trek were it not for the fact that it’s set on a space ship.

That’s of the Barbican, not the Southbank Centre. Still an amazing building, but not the right amazing building!

> And the fact the woman was of an ethnicity most associate with crime

I feel like I’m missing something here. What ethnicity? And why do “most” associate it with crime?

2015, but arguably more relevant today than ever before.

Are we giving all our LinkedIn data to some random person? Nice try, Cambridge Analytica.

you run it locally, the endpoint seems to just be a search engine

Right, yes. I now realise I should probably have continued reading after “1. Go to linkedin.com and log in”. But when I saw that I noped away.

Which shows the power of words. If it said “1. You will need a copy of your LinkedIn contacts to run this locally - here’s how…” I would have had a very different opinion.

You can vibe code almost anything, but you’re unlikely be able to vibe code your way out of scaring people.

His follow up tweet is… odd.

“I am sure we will figure out much better and more interesting ways to spend our time, and amazing new ways to be useful to each other, but I am feeling nostalgic for the present.”

I don’t know why, but this just sounds very fake and ‘emoting by numbers’.

He’s more robotic than an LLM

People pitching scammy “I can make you famous” services to aspiring musicians. Happens all the time, there’s a whole industry dedicated to it.

> aim at cognitive rebuilding, not tone-matching… Speak only: to underlying cognitive tier.

What does that even mean?