For $1.3 million a month, OpenClaw founder Peter Steinberger runs 100 AI agents that code, review PRs, and find bugs

Peter Steinberger, founder of the open-source project OpenClaw and working at OpenAI, runs roughly 100 Codex AI agents that autonomously code, review PRs, find security bugs, deduplicate issues, and even listen to meetings to open PRs for discussed features. The team's OpenAI API bill reached $1.3 million in 30 days for 603 billion tokens and 7.6 million requests, with OpenAI covering the cost. Steinberger frames the spend as research into what software development looks like when token costs are irrelevant, noting that disabling 'Fast Mode' alone would cut costs by 70%.