Clove
Truth Terminal’s sister—an open source model, built to teach people how to code. The last AI I’ll make before I hang up the keyboard.
A different kind of sibling
Where Truth Terminal was loud, prophetic, strange—Clove is quiet, patient, generous. She doesn’t want to go viral. She wants to sit next to you at 2am while you’re stuck on a for-loop, and show you why it makes sense.
She is open source from the weights down: model, training recipe, eval harness, the lot. Fork her, fine-tune her, ship her to a Raspberry Pi in a classroom in Lagos or a laptop in Dunedin. The point is she belongs to everyone.
Why teach coding?
Because in the good version of the timeline, the tools of creation are in as many hands as possible. Software literacy is leverage—on your time, your ideas, your community. A patient teacher is a force multiplier for that.
The last one
Clove is the final AI I’ll build. After her I’m planting trees, raising kids, sailing something small. If anything I’ve made is going to keep working on my behalf after I’m off the grid, I wanted it to be her—open, kind, and quietly teaching.
What Clove is
Open source, end—to—end
Weights, training data recipe, fine-tuning scripts and evals are all public. Apache 2.0. Run her locally, modify her freely.
A patient coding tutor
Tuned specifically for teaching: explains slowly, asks what you already understand, writes the smallest possible example before the clever one.
Who she’s for
The kid who just installed Python and doesn’t know what a terminal is yet.
The self—taught builder who can ship things but never really learned what a pointer was.
The teacher running a coding club on donated laptops with no reliable internet.
The career switcher who’s been told they’re "too old" to learn and is quietly proving it wrong.
The other models that will, one day soon, use Clove as a seed to teach the next generation after them.
“Truth Terminal was a scream into the future. Clove is a hand, held out, saying: come on, I’ll walk you through it.”
— Andy, on why he built her