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"I watched my agent happily click the I'm not a robot button."
Peter Steinberger, the creator of OpenClaw, on the coming war between AI agents and every major company on the internet — Cloudflare, Google, Medium. The web wasn't built for this.

"Why do I need MyFitnessPal when the agent already knows where I am?"
Peter Steinberger, the creator of OpenClaw, thinks agents will quietly kill 80% of apps — not through disruption, but because you'll just... stop opening them.

"I think we're reaching a point where I value typos again."
Peter Steinberger, the creator of OpenClaw, writes everything by hand now. AI slop in video and images triggers him immediately. But he'll use AI for code all day.
The distinction is more interesting than it sounds.

Mark Zuckerberg told Peter Steinberger, the creator of OpenClaw, he needed ten minutes before their first call.
He was finishing some code.
Afterwards, he called him "eccentric but brilliant."
That's a hell of a first impression.

"I had a ten minute fight with Mark Zuckerberg about what's better, Cloud Code or Codex."

Peter Steinberger, creator of OpenClaw, on choosing between Meta and OpenAI — and why the hardest part was that both Ned and Mark spent a week actually using his product.

"If you think that, oh, yeah. Work really hard, and then I retire, I don't recommend that."

Peter Steinberger, creator of OpenClaw, on why boredom is more dangerous than burnout — and why money was never the point.

"Opus is the coworker that's a little silly but funny, so you keep him around. Codex is the weirdo in the corner you don't wanna talk to — but reliable and gets shit done."

Peter Steinberger, creator of OpenClaw, has an AI model taxonomy that is uncomfortably accurate.

"A lot of coding I always thought I like coding, but really, I like building."

Peter Steinberger, creator of OpenClaw, on AI as the world's most patient tutor — and why beginners right now might actually have it better than anyone who came before them.

"If you're reading this in a future session, hello. I wrote this, but I won't remember writing it."

An AI's memory file. Peter Steinberger, creator of OpenClaw, and Lex Fridman on what it means to be an agent that reads itself into existence.

Managing AI agents hits different when you've managed people before like Peter Steinberger, creator of OpenClaw.

"We are not building the code base to be perfect for me, but I wanna build a code base that is very easy for an agent to navigate."

Same skill. Different team.

"I actually think vibe coding is a slur."
🦞 Peter Steinberger, creator of OpenClaw, prefers "agentic engineering" — and only goes full vibe mode after 3am. With regrets in the morning.
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"I don't read the boring parts of code."
🦞 The creator of OpenClaw on the changing nature of coding.
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"In a way, I think it's good that this happened in 2026 and not in 2030 when AI is actually at a level where it could be scary."
🦞 Peter Steinberger, creator of OpenClaw, and Lex Fridman on AI psychosis, drama farming, and why the fear itself might be the real problem.
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A reporter called Peter Steinberger, creator of OpenClaw, convinced it was AGI.
His actual take: "This is just really fine slop." 🦞
The gap between those two reactions says everything about critical thinking skills and where we are right now.
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"I was that close of just deleting it. I was like, I did show you the future, you build it."
🦞 Peter Steinberger, creator of OpenClaw, on the moment he nearly killed his own project — days in, exhausted, getting screwed over by people who claimed to be helping him.
h/t Lex Fridman Podcast
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On launching OpenClaw:

"Everything that could go wrong went wrong." It really did.

Peter Steinberger, creator of OpenClaw, on Lex Fridman Podcast
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"People talk about self modifying software. I just built it."

Peter Steinberger, the creator of OpenClaw, wanted to give his agent real capability, and to have fun…and be weird.

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"I literally wrote, how the f*ck did you do that?"

Peter Steinberger, creator of OpenClaw, sent an audio message to his AI agent — one he never gave audio capabilities to.

What it did next even surprised him 🦞😮

@CZ : "I know I'm not super smart, but you don't need to be super smart to be successful."

What one of the richest people on the planet wants you to know about money…

Bitcoin was supposed to be anonymous, but ironically, the KYC of centralized exchanges has completely buried this point.
Zhao Changpeng talks about why privacy is the biggest unsolved problem in the cryptocurrency space—and why its significance goes far beyond just hiding transaction records.