Publishes detailed accounts of building applications with coding agents and the tools that grew out of that work, including OpenClaw and Oracle.
Why read Peter Steinberger?
Steinberger is useful when you want to see how an experienced developer actually builds with agents. His workflow writing covers discussing options before editing, using screenshots to describe a change, keeping commits understandable and returning to refactoring after fast iteration. The examples come from his own applications and command-line tools.
Read the October workflow post, then the December update to see how his approach changed with the tools he was using. His OpenClaw announcement adds the product context: a personal agent project and his move to OpenAI in February 2026. The project gives his writing a concrete system to explore beyond the development workflow itself.
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Guide ·
Just Talk To It - the no-bs Way of Agentic Engineering
How do you steer an agent while building an app? Steinberger explains discussing options, supplying screenshots, limiting the scope of changes and maintaining the resulting code in his own development work.
Essay ·
Shipping at Inference-Speed
What changed after months of building with agents? A dated update on his command-line-first approach, documentation, iteration and the Oracle tool he built to get another model's help on difficult tasks.
Announcement ·
OpenClaw, OpenAI and the future
Where did OpenClaw go after the initial project? Steinberger explains his decision to join OpenAI and his plans for OpenClaw to continue under an independent foundation.