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Peter Steinberger

What Peter Steinberger thinks about software quality

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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. Our readingAdding a config option so nobody breaks compounds into permutations no test suite can cover, because it is infinitely harder to evolve software that has users.

    Their wordsIf you count all the permutations, you can write all the tests you want. It is impossible to cover all of these and not break things from time to time. It is infinitely harder to evolve software that has users.

    ↗Peter Steinberger: "Fun Is Velocity"youtube.com 6th of 22 in this recording

    Interesting

  3. Our readingMerging the tempting extra feature means adopting a pile of code that neither its author nor the maintainer really understands.

    Their wordsit is always tempting to add this one feature that looks really cool but what you rarely think about is when you merge this feature it really means here's this pile of code that I don't that the person probably doesn't really understand that I don't fully understand

    ↗Peter Steinberger: "Fun Is Velocity"youtube.com 18th of 22 in this recording

    Interesting