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Published · transcript-backedPeter Steinberger: evaluation
12 Feb 2026 Lex Fridman Podcast #491 – OpenClaw: The Viral AI Agent that Broke the Internet – Peter Steinberger
“In a way empathetic, but yeah, you, you, like, you’re bitch at your stupid clanker, but you don’t realize that they start from nothing and you have, like, a bad agent in default that doesn’t help them at all.”
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- Peter Steinberger
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- 12 Feb 2026
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- Lex Fridman Podcast
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…And so empathy, being empathetic towards the agent. In a way empathetic, but yeah, you, you, like, you’re bitch at your stupid clanker, but you don’t realize that they start from nothing and you have, like, a bad agent in default that doesn’t help them at all. And then they explore your code base, which is, like, a pure mess with, like, weird naming. And then people complain that the agent’s not good. Like, yeah, you try to do the same if you have no clue about a code base and you go in. Mm-hmm.…
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