AI & Tech Developments - Feb 16

OpenClaw creator @steipete is the literal

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Just in case Gen Z is trying to understand what happened today: Claude was mogging OpenAI for weeks. Then this gymcel dev ships Clawdbot which was the fastest growing OSS thing ever, absolute looksmax for the whole ecosystem. Anthropic tries to dairygoon him with legal. Dev

— @anothercohen

One guy, coding alone at 5am, built the fastest-growing GitHub repo in history. 194,000 stars. Faster than React, Linux, and Kubernetes combined. OpenAI, with thousands of engineers and billions in compute, couldn't build it first. Steinberger connected Claude's API to WhatsApp

— @aakashgupta

AI can build UI, but it can't design. if you want your AI to stop generating slop UI and actually design this might be the only article you need.

— @rohit4verse

someone made a CLAUDE CODE PLUGIN that turns it into a SENIOR ENGINEER with OCD what it does: when you say [build X] claude STOPS and asks you what you actually want before writing a single line then it writes a spec, shows it to you in digestible chunks, makes an

— @chiefofautism

Sam hiring Peter Steinberger is a publicity stunt. Are you dumb enough to think Sam, a founder who took OpenAI from nonprofit to for profit, a founder who was first to push ads on GPTs, a founder who desperately wants to be the messiah who builds god-like intelligence, is hiring

— @xydotdot

Lessons from OpenClaw that I expect OpenAI to adopt shortly: 1. Inter-agent communication doesn't need a protocol, just a place to post. 2. Every agent should integrate with every messaging platform. That's the primary UI. 3. People are willing to pay to have an AI pet.

— @dbreunig

IronClaw (@near_ai, Rust) is the most architecturally serious alternative. Built by @ilblackdragon as a direct response to OpenClaw's security failures. Tools and channels run in isolated WASM containers with capability-based permissions. Credentials live in an encrypted vault

— @iAnonymous3000

Earlier this week my OpenClaw Agent burnt through over 150M tokens in a day (!). The 1st optimization: Enabled 1hr long cache on Claude Opus so that duplicate context is charged at a 90% discount. Important as OC sends whole files in the prompt The 2nd: Opus Orchestra with Opus

— @kavinbm

It's now 10 times easier to use X with OpenClaw. The security engineer of X just built a skill to let your agent search on X plus use grok. You have to try that yesterday.

— @AntoineRSX

the plumbing to make your openclaw agent actually work for days, weeks then months autonomously give me 7 days and it will get really, really good!

— @sillydarket

ok..Claude + Local SEO is going to quietly create a bunch of business "blue collar millionaires" this year. This feels exactly like when people figured out Facebook ads in 2016-2017. Average businesses were beating better businesses… just because they understood distribution

— @bloggersarvesh

Claude Code + Ghostty is all about panels and how effortlessly you can move between them I spend most of my day opening worktrees, splitting panels, switching tabs, and zooming in and out of different Claude Code sessions

— @dani_avila7

Someone asked me for my "life system" which I built with Claude Code. I open sourced it here in case interesting to others ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

— @davidhariri

Imagine you're Dario Amodei. You spent a year embarrassing OpenAI. Everyone's using Claude Code. You're winning. Then you get comfortable. You send a cease and desist to an open source GitHub project while sitting on a fresh $380B Claude valuation. Your competitors see and

— @kloss_xyz

The real story here is worse than a fumble. It's a three-step own goal. January 9: Anthropic locks Claude Code OAuth tokens, killing every third-party tool that built on Claude subscriptions. OpenClaw, which recommended Claude Opus 4.5 as its default model, wakes up to a broken

— @aakashgupta

Turns out it's super easy to get hired by OpenAI and get called a genius by @sama. All you need to do is create a project with a GitHub star graph that looks like this.

— @dwlz

Today, @steipete became the first confirmed (long theorized) one-person Unicorn! OpenClaw launched as a weekend side project by less than 3 months ago. Here's the timeline: Nov 25: First GitHub commit. Starts as a weekend side project Jan 25: Goes nuclear. 9k stars in

— @CoFoundersNik

OpenAI just hired Peter (OpenClaw's founder) only 3 months after the project went live. I talk to my OpenClaw bot everyday. Here are all my practical tutorials so far: 1. Set up your OpenClaw bot in 20 minutes: https://youtu.be/4zXQyswXj7U 2. Master OpenClaw in 30 minutes (5 real

— @petergyang

It's pretty incredible how much of how I work has changed in just the last two weeks. We rolled out an AI chatbot inside Slack (OpenClaw), hooked up a bunch of tools via MCP and APIs, and now I basically just chat with AI to knock out entire projects. I can also do a lot more

— @anothercohen

Peter Steinberger built PSPDFKit from a side project in 2011 into the PDF SDK powering nearly 1 billion users across Apple, Adobe, Dropbox, and Disney. He sold to Insight Partners for €100M+ in 2021 after 13 years. Then he fell into a founder depression so severe he described

— @aakashgupta

Rumors are saying that Qwen 3.5 will drop later tonight The models we know about from the Qwen 3.5 series so far: - Qwen3.5-2B-Instruct - Qwen3.5-9B-Instruct - Qwen3.5-35B-A3B-Instruct Looking forward to seeing what else they have in store

— @AiBattle_

Manus acquired by Meta for $2B Openclaw acquired by OpenAI And yet people are building OpenClaw wrappers and 1 click deploys instead of harnesses Harnesses are the most important layer of 2026 OpenClaw amazing but still tons of issues setting up and running Who wants to

— @jefftangx

I don't know about others, but I'm letting Opus 4.6 design directly in Figma via Cursor. This is starting to feel unfair. And yeah… I just sit there and enjoy life.

— @akbuilds_

Maybe the fumble of the decade by @AnthropicAI. The most popular and fastest growing open source project of all time is not only named after you, but most users are power users of your product. Instead trying to collaborate or work with him they chose violence

— @dabit3

OpenAI bought OpenClaw Your initial gut reaction might be anger and rage, but I promise you are mistaken. This is a win for EVERYONE involved (including you): • OpenClaw remains open source • The team gets way more resources to build incredible products and advance the

— @AlexFinn

OpenClaw creator Steinberger hired by OpenAI after fastest GitHub growth in history (194K stars); Anthropic C&D backfired spectacularly.

— @AiBreakfast

AI can build UI but can't design: comprehensive guide on making AI generate better interfaces.

— @rohit4verse

Claude Code plugin transforms it into senior engineer with OCD: stops before coding to clarify requirements, writes specs, creates implementation plans.

— @chiefofautism

OpenClaw lessons for OpenAI: inter-agent communication needs posting place not protocol, every agent should integrate messaging platforms, people pay for AI pets.

— @dbreunig

IronClaw (Rust) emerges as architecturally serious alternative: isolated WASM containers, capability-based permissions, encrypted vault.

— @iAnonymous3000

OpenClaw optimization: 1hr cache on Opus for 90% discount on duplicate context; burnt 150M+ tokens in one day.

— @kavinbm

X security engineer builds OpenClaw skill for X search + Grok integration.

— @AntoineRSX

ClawVault: plumbing for autonomous OpenClaw agents running days/weeks/months.

— @sillydarket

Claude + Local SEO creating 'blue collar millionaires' like Facebook ads in 2016-2017.

— @bloggersarvesh

Claude Code + Ghostty workflow: effortless panel management, worktrees, and session splitting.

— @dani_avila7

Developer open sources 'life system' built with Claude Code.

— @davidhariri

Qwen 3.5 series rumored to drop tonight: 2B, 9B, 35B-A3B Instruct models.

— @AiBattle_

Harnesses are most important AI layer of 2026; OpenClaw wrappers missing the point.

— @jefftangx

Opus 4.6 designing directly in Figma via Cursor feels unfair.

— @akbuilds_

AI chatbot in Slack (OpenClaw) + MCP/APIs transforms entire workflow in two weeks.

— @anothercohen

These guys explain exactly how to make millions a year bootstrapping

— @aakashgupta