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The Future of AI
This solo developer just built software that rewrites its own code.
No team. No funding. No corporate backing.
Just one guy, a stack of terminals, and an AI agent that decided to evolve itself.
His name is Peter Steinberger. He built OpenClaw.
The fastest-growing GitHub repo in HISTORY.
And in a 3 hour Lex Fridman interview, he dropped details and predictions that should terrify the entire tech industry...
Peter built a personal AI agent that lives on your computer. Talks to you through WhatsApp. Has access to your files, calendar, everything.
Cool but not groundbreaking... Yet.
Then one day he sent it a voice message.
Problem: he never built voice support. No instructions. No code for audio. Nothing.
The agent checked the file header, identified the format, converted it with ffmpeg, realized Whisper wasn't installed, found an OpenAI API key on the system, used Curl to send the file for transcription, and replied with the answer.
Nobody taught it any of that. ZERO instructions. It just figured it out.
But that's not even the scary part.
The agent literally modifies its OWN source code.
When something doesn't work, it rewrites itself.
When Peter debugs, he doesn't read code. He asks the agent to read its OWN source code, find the bug, and fix itself.
Self-modifying software. Built by accident. Running in production. Used by hundreds of thousands of people.
And BOTH Mark Zuckerberg and Sam Altman are personally trying to recruit him.
Not through HR or recruiters.
Zuckerberg spent a WEEK playing with OpenClaw. Sending Peter direct messages. "This is great." "This is shit." "Fix this."
When they first connected Peter asked to hop on a call and Mark said "Give me 10 minutes, I need to finish coding."
But Sam Altman's playing a different game.
There's an NDA involved but Peter hinted the Cerebras deal translates into speeds that feel like "being handed Thor's hammer."
His exact words: "I've been lured with tokens."
Two of the most powerful people in tech fighting over one open-source developer who built everything from his apartment.
Peter's response to both: "I don't do this for the money. I don't give a fuck."
But the real reason this matters isn't Peter's career.
It's what this means for every app on your phone.
Peter's prediction: 80% of apps are about to die.
Why do you need MyFitnessPal when your agent knows where you are, what you ate, how you slept, and adjusts your workout based on your stress levels?
Why do you need a calendar app when you tell your agent "remind me about dinner tomorrow and invite my friends" and it handles the entry, the WhatsApp messages, and the reservation in one shot?
Why do you need Uber Eats when your agent opens a browser, places the order, and tracks delivery without you touching a screen?
Every app becomes a slow API whether the company likes it or not.
Companies like Cloudflare are trying to block agent access. But all they're doing is making things slower. Not impossible.
Peter said it perfectly:
"You're not taking a feature away. You're just making it take longer."
The app economy is on borrowed time.
Not because the apps are bad... Because one personal agent that knows you and can interact with any service makes most of them pointless.
In the future, we'll have one agent that handles everything.
Software that rewrites itself.
Agents that learn without instructions.
Two CEOs fighting over a solo dev.
And an app economy about to get wrecked.
This isn't coming in 5 years. It's literally already here.
Most people just haven't installed it yet.
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