In which @mitsuhiko, who’s on a tear recently, defends and promotes the use of the word “clanker” to replace “agent” (in the LLM sense): https://lucumr.pocoo.org/2026/5/26/clankers/

#genai #clanker

Clanker: A Word For The Machine

Why I like the word clanker and why machines are not people.

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Wow, one of my gen-z coworkers just used the term "chopped" so I had to go look that up. And in the list of gen-Z slang I was reading, "clanker" came up too.