Peter Steinberger
OpenClaw creator; agent builder at OpenAI
Publishes detailed accounts of building applications with coding agents and the tools that grew out of that work, including OpenClaw and Oracle.
Why read Peter Steinberger?
Steinberger is useful when you want to see how an experienced developer actually builds with agents. His workflow writing covers discussing options before editing, using screenshots to describe a change, keeping commits understandable and returning to refactoring after fast iteration. The examples come from his own applications and command-line tools.
Read the October workflow post, then the December update to see how his approach changed with the tools he was using. His OpenClaw announcement adds the product context: a personal agent project and his move to OpenAI in February 2026. The project gives his writing a concrete system to explore beyond the development workflow itself.
Selected work
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Just Talk To It - the no-bs Way of Agentic Engineering
How do you steer an agent while building an app? Steinberger explains discussing options, supplying screenshots, limiting the scope of changes and maintaining the resulting code in his own development work.
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XFollowList, “Just Talk To It - the no-bs Way of Agentic Engineering” reading notes in the Peter Steinberger profile. https://xfollowlist.com/people/peter-steinberger#work-14dfeb9efb8e
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Shipping at Inference-Speed
What changed after months of building with agents? A dated update on his command-line-first approach, documentation, iteration and the Oracle tool he built to get another model's help on difficult tasks.
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XFollowList, “Shipping at Inference-Speed” reading notes in the Peter Steinberger profile. https://xfollowlist.com/people/peter-steinberger#work-d71fa83e6b35
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OpenClaw, OpenAI and the future
Where did OpenClaw go after the initial project? Steinberger explains his decision to join OpenAI and his plans for OpenClaw to continue under an independent foundation.
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XFollowList, “OpenClaw, OpenAI and the future” reading notes in the Peter Steinberger profile. https://xfollowlist.com/people/peter-steinberger#work-62a47e28e588
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Peekaboo 2.0 – Free the CLI from its MCP shackles
How do you give an agent visual context from a desktop? Steinberger explains his macOS screenshot and analysis tool’s CLI design. Read this as a dated interface example; model-backed analysis needs a configured provider.
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XFollowList, “Peekaboo 2.0 – Free the CLI from its MCP shackles” reading notes in the Peter Steinberger profile. https://xfollowlist.com/people/peter-steinberger#work-732a3e0cb65d
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Sources & further reading
Profile sources checked . This describes checking these references, separately from the publication dates of selected works.
- His own site ties his name to @steipete, GitHub and the dated workflow posts.Link to this source note
- His own February 2026 announcement describes creating OpenClaw and joining OpenAI.Link to this source note
- The current project site confirms foundation stewardship and states that Steinberger works at OpenAI.Link to this source note
Cite this profile’s source check
XFollowList, Peter Steinberger profile sources. Sources checked 2026-10-09. https://xfollowlist.com/people/peter-steinberger#sources-checked