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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
“Y- I think you, you pick stuff up really fast, and you can always ask your agent.”
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- Peter Steinberger
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- 12 Feb 2026
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- Lex Fridman Podcast
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…Mm-hmm … for your problem domain. And yeah, it might be… You might have s-… You might be a little bit slow in reading the code, but not really. Y- I think you, you pick stuff up really fast, and you can always ask your agent. So there’s a lot of programmers and builders who draw inspiration from y- your story. Just the way you carry yourself, your choice of making OpenClaw open source, the, the way you have fun building and exploring, and doing that, for the most part, alone or on a small team. So by way of advice, what metric should be the goal that they would be optimizing for? What would be the metric of success? Would it be happiness? Is it money? Is it positive impact for people who are dreaming of building? ‘Cause you went through an interesting journey. You’ve achieved a lot of those things, and then you fell out of love with programming a little bit for a time.…
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