--- title: State of the Claw — Peter Steinberger | daily.dev description: 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... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/state-of-the-claw-peter-steinberger-xy79hcd8w twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: State of the Claw — Peter Steinberger | daily.dev og:description: 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... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/state-of-the-claw-peter-steinberger-xy79hcd8w og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/Xy79hCd8w.png og:image:alt: State of the Claw — Peter Steinberger og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # State of the Claw — Peter Steinberger **[AI Engineer](https://daily.dev/sources/aidotengineer)** · 44 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary 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. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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