About this episode

Peter Steinberger discusses his experience with AI tools in software development and the impact on engineering practices.

Brought to You By: • Statsig — ⁠ The unified platform for flags, analytics, experiments, and more. • Sonar – The makers of SonarQube, the industry standard for automated code review • WorkOS – Everything you need to make your app enterprise ready. — Peter Steinberger ships more code than I’ve seen a single person do: in January, he was at more than 6,600 commits alone. As he puts it: “From the commits, it might appear like it's a company. But it’s not. This is one dude sitting at home having fun." How does he do it? Peter Steinberger is the creator of Clawdbot (as of yesterday: renamed to Moltbot ) and founder of PSPDFKit . Moltbot – a work-in-progress AI agent that shows what the future of Siri could be like – is currently the hottest AI project in the tech industry, with more searches on Google than Claude Code or Codex. I sat down with Peter in London to talk about what building software looks like when you go all-in with AI tools like Claude and Codex. Peter’s background is fascinating. He built and scaled PSPDFKit into a global developer tools business. Then, after a three-year break, he returned to building. This time, LLMs and AI agents sit at the center of his workflow…

People in this episode

Host: Gergely Orosz

Guest: Peter Steinberger

Topics covered

• AI tools
• software development
• engineering judgment
• code review
• testing
• productivity

Sponsors

Statsig, Sonar, WorkOS

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: PSPDFKit

Products: Clawdbot, Moltbot, Claude, Codex

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