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Published · transcript-backedPeter Steinberger: belief
12 Feb 2026 Lex Fridman Podcast #491 – OpenClaw: The Viral AI Agent that Broke the Internet – Peter Steinberger
“I think that we passed that age, and now everything is, like, much more connected and, and fluid if those companies want it or not.”
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- Peter Steinberger
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- belief
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- 12 Feb 2026
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- Lex Fridman Podcast
Transcript context
…Yes. If I’m on the go, I don’t wanna open a calendar app. I just… I wanna tell my agent, “Hey, remind me about this dinner tomorrow night,” and maybe invite two of my friends and then maybe send a what- send a WhatsApp message to my friend. And I don’t need… I don’t want or need to open apps for that. I think that we passed that age, and now everything is, like, much more connected and, and fluid if those companies want it or not. And I think, well, the right companies will find ways to jump on the train, and other companies will perish. You got to listen to what the people want. We talked about programming quite a bit, and a lot of folks that are developers are really worried about their jobs, about their… About the future of programming. Do you think AI replaces programmers completely? Human programmers?…
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