"- I watched my agent happily click the "I'm not a robot" button. I made the agent very aware. Like, it knows what his source code is. It understands th- how it sits and runs in its own harness. It kno..."

"- The following is a conversation with Peter Steinberger, creator of OpenClaw, formerly known as MoldBot, ClawedBot, Clawdus, Claude, spelled with a W as in lobster claw. Not to be confused with Claud..."

"The one and only, the Clawed Father. Actually, Benjamin predicted it in his tweet. "The following is a conversation with Claude, a respected crustacean." It's a hilarious-looking picture of a lobster ..."

"- There was... Like, one of my projects before already did something where I could bring my terminals onto the web and then I could, like, interact with them, but there also would be terminals on my M..."

"my, my bot in there. - On Discord? - Yeah. No security because I didn't... I hadn't built sandboxing in yet. I, I just prompted it to, like, only listen to me. And then some people came and tried to h..."

"- Like, it's hard to compete against someone who's just there to have fun. - Yeah. - I wanted it to be fun, I wanted it to be weird. And if you see, like, all the, all the lobster stuff online I think..."

"- Can we actually rewind a little bit and tell the saga of the name change? First of all, it started out as Wa-Relay. - Yeah. - And then it went to- - Claude's. - Claude's. - Yeah. You know, when I, w..."

"fun, the two-day MoltBot saga. - Yeah, two years. - MoltBook was created. - Yeah. - Which was another thing that went viral as a kind of demonstration, illustration of how what is now called OpenClaw ..."

"- There's also a lot of security concerns about Clawbot, OpenClaw, whatever you want to call it. - OpenClawbot. - To me the ... in the beginning I was, I was just very annoyed 'cause a lot of the stuf..."

"the evolution of your dev workflow over the past few months. There's a really good blog post on August 25th and October 14th, and the recent one December 28th. I recommend everybody go read them. They..."

"- Okay, we're back. Some of the other aspects of the dev workflow is pretty interesting too. I think we w- went off on a tangent. L- maybe some of the mundane things, like how many monitors? There's t..."

"- Maybe you can talk about the current two big competitors in terms of models, Cloud Opus 4.6 and GPT-5 through Codex. Which is better? How different are they? I think you've spoken about Codex readin..."

"- Uh, what do you think about Claude Code in comparison to Open Claude? So, Claude Code and maybe the Codex coding agent? Do you see them as kind of competitors? - I mean, first of all, competitor is ..."

"- So there's a lot of programmers and builders who draw inspiration from y- your story. Just the way you carry yourself, your choice of making OpenClaw open source, the, the way you have fun building ..."

"- But you also showed on the money front, you know, a lot of people in Silicon Valley and the startup world, they think, maybe overthink way too much optimized for money. And you've also shown that it..."

"- I mean, I have to ask you, just curious. I, I know you've probably gotten huge offers from major companies. Can you speak to who you're considering working with? - Yeah. So, to like explain my think..."

"- Can I ask you about... we've talked about it quite a bit, but maybe just zooming out about how OpenCloud works. We talked about different components, I want to ask if there's some interesting stuff ..."

"against any automation on Twitter. If you tweet at me with AI, I will block you. No first strike. As soon as it smells like AI, and AI still has a smell. - Mm-hmm. - Especially on tweets. It's very ha..."

"basically made obsolete. Do you think agents will just transform the entire app market? - Yeah. Uh, I noticed that on Discord, that people just said how their ... like, what they build and what they u..."

"bit, and a lot of folks that are developers are really worried about their jobs, about their... About the future of programming. Do you think AI replaces programmers completely? Human programmers? - I..."

"with human civilization? - I mean, I inspired so many people. There's like... there's this whole builder vibe again. People are now using AI in a more playful way and are discovering what it can do an..."