"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.
"Opus este colegul care este puțin nebun dar amuzant, așa că îl ții aproape. Codex este ciudatul din colț cu care nu vrei să vorbești — dar este de încredere și își face treaba."
Peter Steinberger, creatorul OpenClaw, are o taxonomie de modele AI care este inconfortabil de precisă.
"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.
"De fapt, cred că vibe coding este un termen peiorativ." 🦞 Peter Steinberger, creatorul OpenClaw, preferă "inginerie agentică" — și intră în modul plin de vibe doar după ora 3 dimineața. Cu regrete dimineața. #AnthropicBansOpenClawFromClaude
"Într-un fel, cred că este bine că s-a întâmplat acest lucru în 2026 și nu în 2030 când IA este de fapt la un nivel care ar putea fi înfricoșător." 🦞 Peter Steinberger, creatorul OpenClaw, și Lex Fridman despre psihosisul IA, fermierii de dramă și de ce frica în sine ar putea fi adevărata problemă. #AnthropicBansOpenClawFromClaude
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. #AnthropicBansOpenClawFromClaude
"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 #AnthropicBansOpenClawFromClaude