Ian Webster: Discord's Clyde was built as a social bot, not a helpful bot
Ian Webster · Breaking AI to Fix It: Ian Webster's Journey from Discord's Clyde to Promptfoo's $18M Series A · Oct 24, 2025 · at 2:12
Ian Webster, former AI lead at Discord and founder of Promptfoo, reflects on the product design of Discord's Clyde chatbot.
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“The interesting thing about Clyde was that it wasn't really meant to be a, necessarily a helpful bot, but instead more of a social bot, like a bot that would just like be in your channel and, you know, help people interact and that kind of thing.”
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