Oh god. Why do I do these things to myself? While researching some stuff I remembered about Clippy — after being reminded by the stupid Wikipedia mascot — I discovered this abomination:

Some dude made a Clippy skin for LLMs. I mean, the way in which those LLMs talk is pretty reminiscent of Clippy and about as annoying, I will give him that. But this is just pure insanity!

Reading through the project's README file, the dude indeed seems pretty delusional:

I am so grateful to Microsoft - not only for everything they've done for Electron, but also for giving us one of the most iconic characters and designs of computing history.

Looking at his website, I think I know why.

I work on Claude at Anthropic. Electron Co-Maintainer. Maintainer of tons of JavaScript modules.

Turns out he studied here in Düsseldorf and used to be editor-in-chief of the Apple fanboy site Apfeltalk back in the day, before heading to Silicon Valley and touring all the cool new start-ups and tech trends.

This is your brain: 🧠 This is your brain on Silicon Valley: 🧀

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