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.

Armin Ronacher's Thoughts and Writings
@timbray @mitsuhiko I’m really appreciating Armin’s takes on this subject, even when I don’t see things the same way he does; he veered close to AI psychosis himself, it looked like, and then came away much more thoughtful instead.