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Peter Steinberger: recommendation

12 Feb 2026 Lex Fridman Podcast #491 – OpenClaw: The Viral AI Agent that Broke the Internet – Peter Steinberger

“In fact, maybe don’t use my project because my- my backlog is very large, but I learned so much from open source.”

— Peter Steinberger

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Peter Steinberger
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recommendation
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12 Feb 2026
Publisher
Lex Fridman Podcast

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…Mm-hmm. More general, if you- if you’re a beginner and you actually wanna learn how to build software really fast, get involved in open source. Doesn’t need to be my project. In fact, maybe don’t use my project because my- my backlog is very large, but I learned so much from open source. Just like, like, be- be humble. Don’t- maybe don’t send a pull request right away. But there’s many other ways you can help out. There’s many ways you can just learn by just reading code. By- by being on Discord or wherever people are, and just, like, understanding how things are built. I don’t know, like Mitchell Hashimoto builds Ghostly, the terminal, and he has a really good community where there’s so many other projects. Like, pick something that you find interesting and get involved. Do you recommend that people that don’t know how to program or don’t really know how to program learn to program also? So when you you can get quite far right now by just using natural language, right? Do you s- still see a lot of value in reading the code, understanding the code, and then being able to write a little bit of code from scratch?…

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