Peter Steinberger
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Sep 10, 2026
Jordan WilsonHOST
So, uh, studies show that m- fewer and fewer experienced developers are actually reading the code that AI outputs, right? Some of the, uh, the more famous, um, y- y- you know, kind of, uh, developers of the recen-- of, of, of the last couple, uh, y- you know, months or quarters have said that they don't even review the code.
Jordan WilsonHOST
You know, it was, uh, Peter Steinberger, so the OpenClaw creator, uh, who was hired on by OpenAI.
Jordan WilsonHOST
So yeah, if you don't know OpenClaw, it is the most popular, uh, piece of open software, uh, open source software literally ever.
Jordan WilsonHOST
Uh, and he famously said, or maybe infamously said, "I ship code I don't read." And he's not alone, right? Uh, most y- you know, y- y- you've seen these stories from, uh, some of the head devs at Anthropic.
Jan-Niklas WortmannHOST
So you touched on that very early with like, you don't use a million loops and agents in parallel.
Jan-Niklas WortmannHOST
I'm wondering, because the people that are promoting this way of working, like Bowers from Claude, Peter Steinberger from OpenAI, I have nothing but sheer respect for what they're doing in their day-to-day.
Jan-Niklas WortmannHOST
So I'm constantly wondering, okay, how much of this is just partially enabled by working on an AI lab and having effectively infinite tokens? um effectively infinite resources in that regards so how much of that is a look in the future of this is might be the way or the direction we're heading or more of like okay these are very different constraints these people are working with making this more of so um David Kramer from Sentry, he put it on this podcast like a science experiment.
Jan-Niklas WortmannHOST
Where are you if this would be a scale of like, okay, this is the way everyone is going to work in a future arbitrary number, or this works for them maybe very well, which is also debatable, but this works for them and might work for a couple others, but it's not broadly applying to the industry.
Tibo SottiauxGUEST
And I think it's important to design for very quick iteration and change.
Gergely OroszHOST
I remember when I talked with Peter Steinberger, that was before he joined OpenAI, but about OpenClaw and how he thinks about it.
Gergely OroszHOST
He told me that he doesn't read the code, but he kept thinking about it.
Gergely OroszHOST
I could see that he's holding the architecture in his head, and he was telling me how he re-architects a lot, and he thinks about how to make it modular, how to allow 100 contributors to each build their thing without stepping on each other's toes.
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Tibo SottiauxGUEST
And, you know, we kind of view this as like a temporary state where, you know, you have like, you have better, stronger capabilities when you're in work mode.
Tibo SottiauxGUEST
But over time, we're bringing this, you know, all the way to like, you know, everyone that uses ChancePT.
Gergely OroszHOST
And how do you personally use Codex? What's your working setup in terms of agents, in terms of tasks, in terms of what you manage with it? And related to this, I asked Peter Steinberger what I should ask about you.
Gergely OroszHOST
And he said, you need to ask him, how do you deal with the fact that you're involved with all these projects? Your calendar is like Tetris, but usually you show up pretty cheerful.
Ran AroussiGUEST
And their whole...
Ran AroussiGUEST
So for anyone who doesn't know, OpenClaw is a great successful project by Peter Steinberger.
Ran AroussiGUEST
and it used Claude, and specifically the Claude Pro and Max plans in order to act as its brain.
Ran AroussiGUEST
And they just shut it off the access.
Nathaniel WhittemoreHOST
In an interview at the beginning of June, Claude Code creator Boris Cherny talked about how his job is no longer to prompt AI, but to design the loops through which it can work.
Nathaniel WhittemoreHOST
Around that same time, Open Clock Creator Peter Steinberger wrote, "Here's your monthly reminder that you shouldn't be prompting coding agents anymore.
Nathaniel WhittemoreHOST
You should be designing loops that prompt your agents." We actually just did a deep dive webinar on what it means to actually build loops when you're not a software developer, but someone in other parts of knowledge work, which I believe will already be out as an episode on this main AI daily brief feed when you're listening to this episode.
Nathaniel WhittemoreHOST
So if you wanna know more about loop engineering go check that out.
Ben BrochHOST
I hear about Hermes way more than I hear about OpenClaw.
Ben BrochHOST
As soon as Peter Steinberger went to OpenAI, unfortunately, I think all the buzz went away.
Ben BrochHOST
Even you hear Alex Finn.
Ben BrochHOST
Alex Finn's not talking about OpenClaw anymore, is he? He's talking about Grockbot and some other things.
MarleneHOST
I design loops.
MarleneHOST
And then Pete Steinberger, who created Peter Steinberger, who created OpenClaw, also said the same thing.
MarleneHOST
He was just like, stop prompting your agents.
MarleneHOST
You should be designing loops instead.
Chris CorbishleyHOST
Now, today's guest is at the forefront of these questions.
Chris CorbishleyHOST
We met after his colleague Peter Steinberger, the founder of OpenClaw, shared his vision for AI agents, describing the ones that will win, that will be always on, context aware and largely invisible.
Chris CorbishleyHOST
Now, of course, OpenClaw began as a personal experiment, an open source AI system that could live on your own devices, plug into live chats and tools we already use and love.
Chris CorbishleyHOST
and actually take action, not just answer questions.
Nathaniel WhittemoreHOST
Chinese citizens went nuts for the technology, leading to articles like this one from CNBC in March, "How China Is Getting Everyone on OpenClaw, From Gearheads to Grandmas." Now, since that initial moment of experimentation, that agentic big bang, if you will, the energy that was initially captured by OpenClaw has found its way into a lot of different places.
Nathaniel WhittemoreHOST
After its founder, Peter Steinberger, was absorbed into OpenAI, some folks turned their attention to competing open harnesses like Hermes from News Research.
Nathaniel WhittemoreHOST
And of course, as we've seen lately with things like GrokBot, a lot of these features have also slowly made their way into tools that don't have as much technical complexity as the original OpenClaw did.
Nathaniel WhittemoreHOST
OpenClaw itself was converted into a nonprofit foundation, and for a while, saw a blistering pace of development, pushing updates every few days.
Jim LoveHOST
That's not true.
Jim LoveHOST
They did take Peter Steinberger, the founder, on as an employee, but OpenClaw remains an open source project.
Jim LoveHOST
And OpenClaw 2.0 was built by 933 contributors and incorporates more than 16,000 pull requests.
Jim LoveHOST
What changed? Well, reportedly, installation is much easier.
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