Peter Steinberger

@steipete.me

vibe coding is the way. I bootstrapped a remote company before it was cool. Founder @PSPDFKit (exit to Insight). 🏳️‍🌈

I built an alternative to all the big players that can run fully local, where people own their data. I get hate. I picked OpenAI because they gave me better answers about encryption, responsibility and safety concerns for what I want to build next. I get hate.

Armin Ronacher@mitsuhiko.at · 6mo ago

Reading some of the takes about Peter here and on X feels less like criticism and more like people shadowboxing their own hatred towards AI. Maybe good to remember that Peter is a real person and one that I know quite well. The criticism thrown his direction from some people is heavily misplaced.

Gosh this is like a quiet safe haven here. X went completely batshit crazy. Crypto shills attacking me, my account doubling in follower numbers overnight. What a day.

For anyone wondering what AI means for devs: Pre-AI, @steipete.me was one of the single most productive devs solving a very hard problem: PDF rendering Post-AI, he's again one of the single most productive devs solving a very hard problem: building the next-gen Siri (aka Clawdbot)

been playing around with clawdbot these past days to have it integrated into my Slack server as personal AI assistant one channel per topic tbh, especially as a solopreneur, this feels great, as it’s keeping in mind the details and helps you plan + bounce off new ideas

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clawdbot has a notion skill for that the cool thing about clawdbot: you just chat with him :D .. „how can I give you access to to Notion?“ .. he responds with a detailed guide with links to the Notion pages where you create an App token and specify which pages / databases he can access its awesome

I added yet another channel for my AI assistant Francis, he’s now helping me to get back in shape 😬 this year seems be the time where I‘m working more with a personal assistant .. and the cool thing about clawdbot is, that I‘m still keeping all the main context of my personal data locally on my PC

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High Praise, thanks Federico! It's been years since I had so much fun building something. Defo feels like living in the future.

Federico Viticci@viticci.macstories.net · 7mo ago

An open-source AI agent running on my Mac mini is the most fun I've had with AI in a while. Clawdbot by @steipete.me is an AI assistant that you can infinitely tweak. Runs in any messaging app, has access to skills + shell, and it can improve itself. My story: www.macstories.net/stories/claw...