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Lol idk about that, some of the biggest AI fans at work use it. It's just common slang now, you're assigning too much to it

> It’s ideological in that it’s generally used by people that are anti-AI

It's much more nuanced, after all. Example:

https://lucumr.pocoo.org/2026/5/26/clankers/

That article only confirms what I’m saying. The author is describing their personal perspective on the word, but that’s not how it’s used in general, which is why the author received pushback on their undocumented and idiosyncratic usage.

I literally run an AI startup; we all talk about the clankers and have for more than a year