"Claw" captures what the existing terminology missed, these aren't agents with more tools (maybe even the opposite), they're persistent processes with scheduling and inter-agent communication that happen to use LLMs for reasoning.
Claw is a terrible name for a basic product which is Claude code in a loop (cron job).
This whole hype cycle is absurd and ridiculous for what is a really basic product full of security holes and entirely vibe coded.
The name won’t stick and when Apple or someone releases a polished version which consumers actually use in two years, I guarantee it won’t be called “iClaw”
Perfect is the enemy of good. Claw is good enough. And perhaps there is utility to neologisms being silly. It conveys that the namespace is vacant.