Peter Steinberger

Steinberger's post calling Asahi's AI-contribution ban "just silly" drew far more engagement than his $10M token-spend remarks, while Reddit questions what that spending produced. The coverage centers on his opinions and on OpenClaw, which still accounts for most of his recent commits.

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Peter Steinberger (@steipete), creator of OpenClaw, on what to call building with AI agents: "I actually think vibe codiTechTunes

Steinberger calls Asahi's AI-contribution ban "just silly."

His Nov 8 post from @steipete drew 3,277 likes, 118 reposts and 191 replies. In it he argued "The Asahi project was all about taking something closed and restricted and opening it up" and said new restrictions on other projects are "not the way." ournews.ai places the post inside a wider fight. DHH is clashing with Asahi over the ban and a planned GPLv2+ shift, saying the policy blocks Omarchy's upstream work, while Asahi cites clean-room and ethical risks. The post pulled roughly 4x the likes of the $10M token story's biggest post.

Steinberger puts his last-month token bill at $10M

Speaking at Cloudflare Connect on Oct 23, he admitted not all of that spending was useful and said he wants one AI agent deciding which permissions another gets, per The Next Web, which credits The Register and notes he now works at OpenAI after founding OpenClaw. Kalshi's Oct 22 "JUST IN" post hit 754 likes, and TechRadar headlined it "luckily OpenAI can afford it." Reddit is skeptical. The r/myclaw thread (95 points, 132 comments) asks "How much value was created?" (15 upvotes), and a r/NowInTech commenter claims 5 major features for about $10, while @growthai_media on TikTok (696 views) zeroes in on the "not all useful" admission.

Lex Fridman Podcast #491 keeps spinning off clips

@techtunesapp resurfaced the episode on Nov 7. It is titled "OpenClaw: The Viral AI Agent that Broke the Internet," originally published back in February per lexfridman.com, and the Nov 7 post points to the moment around 1:04:45. In a companion post, @techtunesapp quotes him saying "I actually think vibe coding is a slur" and sums up his split between prompting on vibes and agentic engineering inside a system you understand. A Nov 8 thread from @jzhang273 recaps his burnout story from the episode as mostly co-founder disagreements and high-pressure customers, not code. On YouTube, Markluce AI's Chinese-subtitled cut (Oct 27, 42 views) covers the one-hour WhatsApp prototype and the rename saga. Per the auto-transcript, Codex alone took about 10 hours to rename the project.

His GitHub logs 1,117 commits in 30 days, 925 of them in openclaw/openclaw

The openclaw/openclaw repo sits at 394,230 stars with 8,049 open issues. His recent PRs are unglamorous plumbing like fix(sandbox): reclaim tmpfs from idle containers and fix(gateway): exit promptly after clean shutdown. He also put 64 commits into steipete/CodexBar, his 23,080-star tool for Codex and Claude Code usage stats. As background, his own about page bills OpenClaw as GitHub's most-starred software project, and the OpenClaw blog announced the non-profit OpenClaw Foundation on Jul 8, 2026.

On Nov 4 he asks whether "individual limits still make sense."

In the post, he says you want "an agent that represents your project, that runs loops and evolves your codebase," while "the humans merely curate the automations." On Nov 5 he asked whether Apple is "just lying" about Safari. On Nov 6 he reposted @dwarkesh_sp's $20,000 experiment of having AI models play each other at Blood on the Clocktower. His habits travel too: @YoussefHosni95 (295 likes, Oct 23) spread his "canary" trick. It is one CLAUDE.md line telling Claude to start every reply with your name, so you know to reset the session before the agent starts hallucinating.

Kronen Zeitung headlines him with "AI could soon defeat cancer."

The Oct 30 krone.tv "Message Macht Medien" interview with Gerald Fleischmann pulled 13,847 views on YouTube. It introduces him as one of Austria's best-known figures in international tech. TikTok clips carry the softer side: @atraktosmm posted his burnout take (263 views), and in another clip (415 views, 17 likes) he tells beginners to play, build the idea in their head and ask AI whenever they're stuck. A r/ChinaAI_ post on Oct 25 also surfaces his view that China is going all-in on AI agents and OpenClaw, though it drew just 1 point.