7 Counterintuitive Dev Habits From the Creator of OpenClaw That Make You Ship Like a Maniac

Not skimmed. Not glanced at the diff for 4 seconds before hitting “approve.” Actually read it, line by line, understood every function, every edge case. If your answer is “yesterday” - cool, you’re thorough. You’re also mass slow. Peter Steinberger - the guy who built OpenClaw, the fastest-growing repo in GitHub history (180,000+ stars), the project that OpenAI and Meta are fighting to acquire - made 6,600 commits in January 2026. Alone. No team. As of today, he just joined OpenAI to lead their next generation of personal agents. Sam Altman called him “ a genius.