Clippy is back as a pet for DeepSeek agents — smarter now, still narrow
teortaxesTex · x · 2026-08-16
Engineer xlr8harder built a Clippy plugin for Deepseek Harness, resurrecting Microsoft Office's classic paperclip assistant as a computer pet for agents, calling it "the only computer pet anyone ever really needed." He jokes that this new Clippy is "a bit smarter now, but unfortunately still has quite a narrow skill set."
Prominent AI commentator teortaxesTex quote-posted it with a wink: "The great arc is almost complete. AGI is close."
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