Peter Steinberger gives the 5 month update on OpenClaw, the fastest growing open source project in history, and what it's like as a maintainer, from security to community. Keynote followed by audience Q&A moderated by @swyx.

Speaker info:
- https://x.com/steipete
- https://www.linkedin.com/in/steipete/
- https://openclaw.ai/

AI Engineer

Peter Steinberger, creator of OpenClaw and now at OpenAI, gives a state-of-the-project talk covering its explosive GitHub growth (fastest growing project in history, ~30K stars, 2K contributors), the overwhelming security advisory burden (1,142 reports, 16.6/day), and how much of the reported risk is overstated or based on misconfigured setups. He discusses the Open Claw Foundation being established to ensure the project stays independent and multi-company, his multi-agent coding workflow running 5-6 parallel sessions, the importance of 'taste' and system design as key human skills in the AI era, and future directions including ubiquitous personal agents, dreaming/memory features, and a plugin-based extensible architecture.

State of the Claw — Peter Steinberger