100 Mio Investment in PSPDF Kit: der Gründer Peter Steinberger in einnem persönlichen Gespräch über den emotionalen Rollercoaster, die Sinneskrise und seine Zukunftspläne.
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Vom Side-Hustle zu einer der größten österreichischen Investmentrunden aller Zeiten - im Future Weekly Deep Dive sprechen Daniel & Markus diesmal mit PSPDFKit GmbH Gründer Peter Steinberger über Bootstrapping, Crypto-Pyramidenspiele und Gründer-Exits. 75 Minuten voller großartiger persönlicher Stories und jeder Menge unverblümter Ehrlichkeit. --- Hier geht's zum Future Weekly Discord Channel: https://discord.gg/9AyzUEWpgB Hintergründe & weiterführende Links in der Future Weekly Espresso Summary: https://futureweekly.substack.com/ --- Du hast Feedback, Ideen, Moonshots oder Predictions zu den heutigen Themen? Schick uns deinen Text oder ein Soundbite an podcast@austrianstartups.com und werde ein Teil der nächsten Episode. --- Redaktion & Produktion: Dominic Runge, Laura Spengel, Martin Rudolf, Anna Ringauf & Juliane Staudinger Musik (Intro/Outro): www.sebastianegger.com
In this video, we sit down with Peter Steinberger (@steipete), a legendary Apple platform developer, hacker and previously founder of PSPDFKit. Peter refers coding ai agents as “slot machines” and if that's not crazy enough for you.. wait.. because his friends call it catnip. Peter built a ssh tool @VibeTunnel (with his friends) or what I call a super app to control all your CLI AI agents like Claude Code or Gemini. We dive into: → Building VibeTunnel, a powerful SSH-based super app to control all your AI agents, → The brutal truth about prompt engineering, → A head-to-head: Claude Code vs Cursor, → How AI is reshaping software engineering forever, → What devs should be learning right now in this AI-first era, → Why Peter open-sources everything he builds. Timestamps: 00:00 - Peter's rant on 15-min recordings 02:20 - Tiny prompts = shitty results 05:08 - Claude Code vs Cursor performance 06:54 - How to write a good prompt for agents 08:18 - Future of software engineering after AI 12:15 - What should software engineers learn now 15:35 - Why does he open-source his projects 19:25 - Advice to engineers discarding AI 20:47 - Talking about @VibeTunnel and the hackathon VibeTunnel : https://vibetunnel.sh Peter Steinberger : https://x.com/steipete Mayank Gupta : https://x.com/waghnakh_21 p.s. This is just Part-1 of our conversation. Don’t forget to like, comment, and subscribe if you enjoy developer-focused agentic coding videos like this and you don’t want to miss Part 2!
Wir müssen reden - und zwar ausführlich in einer Sonderfolge mit einem Experten. Jakob Steinschaden, Mitgründer von Trending Topics und newsrooms.ai, und Clemens Wasner, KI-Unternehmer bei EnliteAI und Chairman von AI Austria, haben diesmal Peter Steinberger, den ehemaligen Gründer von PSPDFKIT und heute laut Eigendefinition Vollzeit Open-Source-Developer, zu Gast. Er ist ein ausgewiesener Kenner von Apple und bestens vernetzt, um neue Einblicke in Apples Umgang und Strategie mit AI zu geben. Die Themen: • WWDC 2025: Highlights und Enttäuschungen • Liquid Glass: Vorbereitung auf AR oder ein Design Fail? • On-Device-LLMs: Was bringen sie? • Das KI-Team als Fremdkörper bei Apple • Apples Umgang mit Developers • Privacy vs. AI • Muss Apple Anthropic kaufen? • Braucht Apple KI überhaupt so dringend? Wenn dir diese Folge gefallen hat, lass uns doch fünf Sterne als Bewertung da und folge dem Podcast auf Spotify, Apple und Co. Für Anregungen, Kritik, Feedback oder Wünsche zu künftigen Gästen schick uns jederzeit gerne eine Mail an feedback@trendingtopics.at. (mailto:feedback@trendingtopics.at)
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Visit the largest developers congress in Europe: WeAreDevelopers World Congress, 16 - 18 May 2018 in Vienna, Austria. https://www.wearedevelopers.com/congress/ original title: "Lessons Learned on Building a Sustainable Codebase: 7 Years and Counting" Peter will discuss strategies how code can be written in a way where you can both ‘ship it’ and have a sustainable product that allows you to move fast and where new people don’t run away screaming. At least most of the time. 🙂 The talk is based on lessons learned while building PSPDFKit for iOS since 2010, yet most parts will be applicable to any language and team. https://www.wearedevelopers.com/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/wearedevelopers.org/ Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/wearedevs/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/wearedevelopers.org/
You’ve probably already heard all about OpenClaw (formerly Clawdbot/Moltbot). The viral sensation is an open-source AI assistant that runs on your own device, connects with messaging apps you already use, and goes beyond chat to actually execute tasks like managing your email, calendars, files, workflows, and more. Now meet the man behind it. YC’s Raphael Schaad sat down with Peter Steinberger, the creator of OpenClaw, to discuss the “aha” moment behind the viral personal AI agent, why local-first agents could replace many of today’s apps, and how personal agents will reshape the future of software. Chapters: 00:00 – OpenClaw takes over the internet 00:44 – Life after going viral 01:28 – Why OpenClaw took off, what sets it apart 02:56 – Bots talking to bots (and hiring humans) 04:11 – From “God AI” to swarm intelligence 05:07 – Peter’s original “aha” moment 06:38 – Rebuilding the agent as a conversation 07:38 – The moment it exceeded expectations 10:21 – Are apps going to disappear? 12:31 – Memory, data silos, and ownership 14:39 – The privacy reality of personal agents 15:05 – Letting the bot loose in public Discord 16:55 – Giving an agent a personality 18:19 – Contrarian building philosophy 20:09 – CLIs vs MCPs 21:28 – Building for humans first 21:46 – The road ahead Apply to Y Combinator: https://www.ycombinator.com/apply Work at a startup: https://www.ycombinator.com/jobs
Peter Steinberger is the creator of OpenClaw, an open-source AI agent framework that's the fastest-growing project in GitHub history. Thank you for listening ❤ Check out our sponsors: https://lexfridman.com/sponsors/ep491-sb See below for timestamps, transcript, and to give feedback, submit questions, contact Lex, etc. *Transcript:* https://lexfridman.com/peter-steinberger-transcript *CONTACT LEX:* *Feedback* - give feedback to Lex: https://lexfridman.com/survey *AMA* - submit questions, videos or call-in: https://lexfridman.com/ama *Hiring* - join our team: https://lexfridman.com/hiring *Other* - other ways to get in touch: https://lexfridman.com/contact *EPISODE LINKS:* Peter's X: https://x.com/steipete Peter's GitHub: https://github.com/steipete Peter's Website: https://steipete.com Peter's LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/steipete OpenClaw Website: https://openclaw.ai OpenClaw GitHub: https://github.com/openclaw/openclaw OpenClaw Discord: https://discord.gg/openclaw *SPONSORS:* To support this podcast, check out our sponsors & get discounts: *Perplexity:* AI-powered answer engine. Go to https://lexfridman.com/s/perplexity-ep491-sb *Quo:* Phone system (calls, texts, contacts) for businesses. Go to https://lexfridman.com/s/quo-ep491-sb *CodeRabbit:* AI-powered code reviews. Go to https://lexfridman.com/s/coderabbit-ep491-sb *Fin:* AI agent for customer service. Go to https://lexfridman.com/s/fin-ep491-sb *Blitzy:* AI agent for large enterprise codebases. Go to https://lexfridman.com/s/blitzy-ep491-sb *Shopify:* Sell stuff online. Go to https://lexfridman.com/s/shopify-ep491-sb *LMNT:* Zero-sugar electrolyte drink mix. Go to https://lexfridman.com/s/lmnt-ep491-sb *OUTLINE:* 0:00 - Episode highlight 1:30 - Introduction 5:36 - OpenClaw origin story 8:55 - Mind-blowing moment 18:22 - Why OpenClaw went viral 22:19 - Self-modifying AI agent 27:04 - Name-change drama 44:15 - Moltbook saga 52:34 - OpenClaw security concerns 1:01:14 - How to code with AI agents 1:32:09 - Programming setup 1:38:52 - GPT Codex 5.3 vs Claude Opus 4.6 1:47:59 - Best AI agent for programming 2:09:59 - Life story and career advice 2:13:56 - Money and happiness 2:17:49 - Acquisition offers from OpenAI and Meta 2:34:58 - How OpenClaw works 2:46:17 - AI slop 2:52:20 - AI agents will replace 80% of apps 3:00:57 - Will AI replace programmers? 3:12:57 - Future of OpenClaw community *PODCAST LINKS:* - Podcast Website: https://lexfridman.com/podcast - Apple Podcasts: https://apple.co/2lwqZIr - Spotify: https://spoti.fi/2nEwCF8 - RSS: https://lexfridman.com/feed/podcast/ - Podcast Playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLrAXtmErZgOdP_8GztsuKi9nrraNbKKp4 - Clips Channel: https://www.youtube.com/lexclips *SOCIAL LINKS:* - X: https://x.com/lexfridman - Instagram: https://instagram.com/lexfridman - TikTok: https://tiktok.com/@lexfridman - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/lexfridman - Facebook: https://facebook.com/lexfridman - Patreon: https://patreon.com/lexfridman - Telegram: https://t.me/lexfridman - Reddit: https://reddit.com/r/lexfridman
In this week’s Open Source Friday, we sit down with Peter Steinberger to dive into Clawdbot, an open source personal AI assistant that runs on any OS and any platform. The project has exploded to 4,300+ stars in just 52 days, and it’s built with a privacy-first “own your data” philosophy, so you stay in full control of your personal AI assistant.
PSPDFKit creator Peter Steinberger joins us to talk about the framework. Dru talks about UIKit widgets he hates and everyone enjoys some Marzipan. Interested in hearing past episodes? You can find them here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/raywenderlich-com-podcast-for-app-developers-gamers/id773910890 --- About the podcast: Join Dru and Jenn as they discuss every aspect of mobile app development with well-known experts from the iOS & Android community. Our goal is to help you learn something new each episode and level up your career! --- raywenderlich.com is a website focused on developing high quality programming tutorials. Our goal is to take the coolest and most challenging topics and make them easy for everyone to learn – so we can all make amazing apps. We are also focused on developing a strong community. Our goal is to help each other reach our dreams through friendship and cooperation. As you can see below, a bunch of us have joined forces to make this happen: authors, editors, subject matter experts, app reviewers, and most importantly our amazing readers!
With the just-released iPadOS 13.4, Apple added support for trackpad and mouse devices! Watch me code live on supporting pointer interactions into a large project using Xcode 11.4 and Swift. This is a chance for you to learn how the API works, how you can create bezier paths in-code (and what tools are there to help), and how to structure the handler in a way that is easy to read and extensive. We’ll also discuss a few tricks and hacks on how to make the process faster, how to make buttons react to events and official and unofficial ways how to differentiate between finger touches and pointer taps. This talk is based on my blog post: https://pspdfkit.com/blog/2020/supporting-pointer-interactions/ but is much more hands-on and shows a few tricks we have learned since then. ----- https://wearedevelopers.com/live Connect to WeAreDevelopers Live, the platform where you can see featured developers working and showcasing live. Keep yourself informed of the latest trends and issues and improve your skills and knowledge. So, if you’re in the mood for learning something new then keep scrolling to find out when the next live sessions are! ----- Visit the largest developer playground in Europe! https://www.wearedevelopers.com/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/wearedevelopers Twitter: https://twitter.com/WeAreDevs Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/_wearedevelopers/ #WeAreDevs
Peter Steinberger ships more code than I’ve seen a single person do: in January, he was at more than 6,600 commits alone. As he puts it: “From the commits, it might appear like it's a company. But it’s not. This is one dude sitting at home having fun." How does he do it? Peter Steinberger is the creator of Clawdbot (as of yesterday: renamed to OpenClaw) and founder of PSPDFKit. OpenClaw – a work-in-progress AI agent that shows what the future of Siri could be like – is currently the hottest AI project in the tech industry, with more searches on Google than Claude Code or Codex. I sat down with Peter in London to talk about what building software looks like when you go all-in with AI tools like Claude and Codex. Peter’s background is fascinating. He built and scaled PSPDFKit into a global developer tools business. Then, after a three-year break, he returned to building. This time, LLMs and AI agents sit at the center of his workflow. We discuss what changes when one person can operate like a team and why closing the loop between code, tests, and feedback becomes a prerequisite for working effectively with AI. We also go into how engineering judgment shifts with AI, how testing and planning evolve when agents are involved, and which skills and habits are needed to work effectively. This is a grounded conversation about real workflows and real tradeoffs, and about designing systems that can test and improve themselves. — *Brought to you by our season partners:* • Statsig — The unified platform for flags, analytics, experiments, and more. http://statsig.com/pragmatic • Sonar – The makers of SonarQube, the industry standard for automated code review. https://www.sonarsource.com/pragmatic/?utm_medium=paid&utm_source=pragmaticengineer&ut[…]egory=Paid&s_source=Paid%20Other&s_origin=pragmaticengineer • WorkOS – Everything you need to make your app enterprise ready. https://workos.com/ — *The Pragmatic Engineer deepdives relevant for this episode:* • Inside a five-year-old startup’s rapid AI makeover https://newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com/p/ai-first-makeover-craft • When AI writes almost all code, what happens to software engineering? https://newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com/p/when-ai-writes-almost-all-code-what • Why it’s so dramatic that “writing code by hand is dead” https://newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com/p/the-pulse-160-why-its-so-dramatic • AI Engineering in the real world https://newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com/p/ai-engineering-in-the-real-world • The AI Engineering stack https://newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com/p/the-ai-engineering-stack — *Where to find Peter Steinberger:* • X: https://x.com/steipete • LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/steipete • Website: https://steipete.me • OpenClaw: https://www.OpenClaw.ai — *In this episode, we cover:* (00:00) Intro (01:07) How Peter got into tech (08:27) PSPDFKit (19:14) PSPDFKit’s tech stack and culture (22:33) Enterprise pricing (29:42) Burnout (34:54) Peter finding his spark again (43:02) Peter’s workflow (49:10) Managing agents (54:08) Agentic engineering (59:01) Testing and debugging (1:03:49) Why devs struggle with LLM coding (1:07:20) How PSPDFkit would look if built today (1:11:10) How planning has changed with AI (1:21:14) Building Clawdbot (now: OpenClaw) (1:34:22) AI’s impact on large companies (1:38:38) “I don’t care about CI” (1:40:01) Peter’s process for new features (1:44:48) Advice for new grads (1:50:18) Rapid fire round — See the transcript and other references from the episode at https://newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com/podcast — Production and marketing by https://penname.co/.
Sie haben Unternehmen aufgebaut, sind durchs Tal der Tränen gegangen, haben Hiring gemacht, Finanzierungsrunden aufgestellt und Kunden gewonnen und verloren - sprich: sie haben einen Haufen Erfahrung als Gründer:innen gemacht. Nun zeigt sich auch in Österreich, dass sich diese Gründer:innen als Investor:innen engagieren. Jüngstes Beispiel: Founders of Europe (https://www.trendingtopics.eu/founders-of-europe-7-grunderinnen-investieren-gemeinsam-in-seed-startups/) . Peter Steinberger (Co-Founder PSPDFKit) und Larissa Kravitz (Founder Investorella) sind zwei der insgesamt 7 Partner:innen des Investor:innen-Konsortiums von Founders of Europe - und sprechen im aktuellen Podcast über: - die Grundlagen und Ziele von Founders of Europe (FoE) - wie und warum sie von der Gründer:innen- auf die Investor:innen-Seite wechselten - wie FoE zwischen Business Angel und VC angesiedelt ist - die Ticket-Größen für die Finanzierungsrunden - Partnerschaften mit anderen Kapitalgeber:innen - den Fokus auf Diversity - das Investment-Umfeld in Zeiten von Krise und hoher Inflation - warum auch 2022 noch eine gute Zeit ist, um zu gründen Wenn dir der Podcast gefallen hat, gibt uns ein paar Sterne und/oder ein Follow auf den Podcast-Plattformen und abonniere unseren Podcast bei: - Spotify (https://open.spotify.com/show/4mgul52BUTHdH8CDetXwic?si=1YCtbiTaQN6z7esJCPTGgQ) - Apple Podcast (https://podcasts.apple.com/at/podcast/zebras-unicorns/id1533084242) - Google Podcasts (https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly9hbmNob3IuZm0vcy84YmQ3NjNjL3BvZGNhc3QvcnNz) - Amazon Music (https://music.amazon.de/podcasts/1f08b69a-66cd-4588-8c1b-22121966e020/ZEBRAS--UNICORNS) - Anchor.fm (https://anchor.fm/trending-topics) und besuche unsere News-Portale - Trending Topics (https://www.trendingtopics.at/) - Tech & Nature (https://www.techandnature.com/) Danke fürs Zuhören!