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Published · transcript-backedMentions personal use of ffmpeg.
12 Feb 2026 Lex Fridman Podcast #491 – OpenClaw: The Viral AI Agent that Broke the Internet – Peter Steinberger
“So I checked out the header of the file and it found that it was, like, opus so I used ffmpeg to convert it”
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- Peter Steinberger
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- 12 Feb 2026
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- Lex Fridman Podcast
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…… capability. I literally went, “How the fuck did he do that?” And it was like, “Yeah, the mad lad did the following. He sent me a message but it only, only was a file and no file ending.” So I checked out the header of the file and it found that it was, like, opus so I used ffmpeg to convert it and then I wanted to use whisper but it didn’t had it installed. But then I found the OpenAI key and just used Curl to send the file to OpenAI to translate and here I am. Just looked at the message I’m like, “Oh wow.” You didn’t teach it any of those things and the agent just figured it out, did all those conversions, the translations. It figured out the API, it figured out which program to use, all those kinds of things. And you were just absent-mindedly just sent an audio message when it came back.…
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