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Peter Steinberger

@peter-steinberger · 4 positions · 0 changes of mind

Founded PSPDFKit in 2011 and ran it for a decade. Came back from a break to work on AI agents — the OpenClaw project, and OpenAI, joined in February 2026. Writes at steipete.me.

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  1. 14 Feb 2026

    Turning a breakout open-source project into a company would be the wrong move -- joining a lab reaches everyone faster than building another large company.

    Yes, I could totally see how OpenClaw could become a huge company. And no, it’s not really exciting for me. I’m a builder at heart. I did the whole creating-a-company game already, poured 13 years of my life into it and learned a lot. What I want is to change the world, not build a large company and teaming up with OpenAI is the fastest way to bring this to everyone.

    OpenClaw, OpenAI and the futuresteipete.me

    OpenAI

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  3. 25 Aug 2025

    Tests written by a model in the same context as the change are what find the bugs; the automated tests left behind are the lesser product.

    Bigger changes always get tests. Automated ones usually aren’t great, but the model almost always finds issues when you ask it to write tests IN THE SAME CONTEXT. Context is precious, don’t waste it.

    My Current AI Dev Workflowsteipete.me

  4. 25 Aug 2025

    MCP servers are worth removing outright: an agent reading the code directly is faster, and pollutes its context less, than one that can reach for a tool unasked.

    Even removed my last MCP, since Claude sometimes would go off spinning up Playwright unasked when it could simply read the code - which is faster and pollutes the context less.

    My Current AI Dev Workflowsteipete.me

    MCPAnthropic

  5. 25 Aug 2025

    Background agents do not work for real development, because steering a model as it drifts is the job, and you cannot steer what you are not watching.

    Still don’t see how this could be moved to background agents. I steer the models a lot as I notice them drifting off - that’s much harder if they run in the background.

    My Current AI Dev Workflowsteipete.me