How OpenClaw's Creator Uses AI to Run His Life (Full Demo) | Peter Steinberger
The inside story behind the hottest AI assistant on the market and the person who built it
Dear subscribers,
Today, I want to share a new episode with Peter Steinberger.
Peter is the creator of OpenClaw (formerly Molt - the name keeps changing 😅), the hottest AI right now with 2M visitors in a week. In our interview, Peter shared is personal favorite use cases including using Claw to check in to flights, control his home, and more. We also talked about his hot takes such as no plan mode or MCPs.
Watch now on YouTube, Apple, and Spotify.
Peter and I talked about:
(00:00) “It’s like having a new weird friend that lives on your computer”
(03:52) “It sent me a voice message but I never set that up”
(15:06) “It watched my security camera all night and found this”
(16:15) Using OpenClaw to check in flights, change lights, and adjust his bed
(19:42) Why 80% of your phone apps will disappear
(22:51) The agentic trap: Why fancy AI workflows produce slop
(29:42) Peter’s AI coding hot takes: No plan mode, MCPs suck, and more
(36:56) The way to learn AI is to play
I’m proud to partner with…Granola
If you’re in back-to-back meetings, you know how much work it is to take notes live and clean them up afterwards. That’s why I love Granola, the best AI meeting notes app in the market.
It captures everything automatically, lets me add my own notes inline, and formats takeaways exactly how I want them. No annoying bot joins your calls either.
Top 10 takeaways I learned from this episode
Peter’s AI workflow rejects most popular “best practices”:
Default to Codex for coding (not Opus). Codex handles big codebases better with fewer mistakes and less handholding. Opus is great for personality.
No plan mode. From Peter: “Plan mode was a hack for older models. I just write ‘let’s discuss’ and have a conversation.”
No MCPs. “Most MCPs should be CLIs. The agent will try the CLI, get the help menu, and from now on we’re good.”