{"id":25121,"date":"2026-02-25T17:26:29","date_gmt":"2026-02-25T17:26:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/?p=25121"},"modified":"2026-02-25T17:26:29","modified_gmt":"2026-02-25T17:26:29","slug":"openclaw-creators-advice-to-ai-builders-is-to-be-more-playful-and-allow-yourself-time-to-improve","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/?p=25121","title":{"rendered":"OpenClaw creator&#8217;s advice to AI builders is to be more playful and allow yourself time to improve"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p id=\"speakable-summary\" class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Peter Steinberger, the creator of the <a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2026\/01\/27\/everything-you-need-to-know-about-viral-personal-ai-assistant-clawdbot-now-moltbot\/\">viral AI agent OpenClaw<\/a>, who has since <a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2026\/02\/15\/openclaw-creator-peter-steinberger-joins-openai\/\">been hired by OpenAI,<\/a> has some advice for those experimenting with AI technology, including AI agents. From his own experience, the best way to build today is to explore, be playful, and not expect to be an expert at what you do right away.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cI wish I could say that I had the unified plan in the beginning, but a lot of it was just exploration,\u201d Steinberger said. \u201cI wanted things, and those things didn\u2019t exist, and\u2026let\u2019s say, I prompted them into existence.\u201d <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The developer was chatting with OpenAI\u2019s Head of Developer Experience, Romain Huet, on the first episode of <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=9jgcT0Fqt7U\">the company\u2019s new Builders Unscripted podcast<\/a>. Here, he spoke about what OpenClaw was like in its early days and how he didn\u2019t have a plan when he got started.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Steinberger explained he began by building a tool that would integrate with WhatsApp, but then set it aside for a bit and focused on other things, as he assumed the AI labs would build something like what he was working on in the near future.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cI just experimented a lot. My mission was, kind of like, to have fun and inspire people,\u201d Steinberger noted. By last November, however, the developer was surprised that no AI labs had started to build what he wanted to use. That led him to create the initial prototype of what\u2019s now OpenClaw. <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWhere it really clicked was where I was at this weekend trip in Marrakesh, and I found myself using it way more because it was so convenient\u2026there was no really good internet. [But] WhatsApp just works everywhere,\u201d he said. The tool made it easy for him to find restaurants, look up things on his computer, send texts to friends, and more. <\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\">\n<p>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Builders Unscripted: Ep. 1 - Peter Steinberger, Creator of OpenClaw\" width=\"1110\" height=\"624\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/9jgcT0Fqt7U?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/p>\n<\/figure>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The more he played with the technology, Steinberger realized how good modern AI models have become at problem-solving, much like coders are. <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cNow they can just, like, actually come up with the solutions themselves, even though you never programmed them at all,\u201d he noted. <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Throughout the process of building, Steinberger said that his workflow improved \u2014 and he stresses to other developers that\u2019s something that can take time, so don\u2019t give up.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThere\u2019s these people that\u2026write software in the old way, and the old way is going to go away,\u201d he pointed out. They then decide to try vibe coding, but are disappointed with the results.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cI think vibe-coding is a slur,\u201d said Steinberger, basically suggesting that it\u2019s not as simple a process at first as the term makes it sound. \u201cThey try AI, but they don\u2019t understand that it\u2019s a skill,\u201d he said, then comparing the process of coding with AI to learning guitar.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cYou\u2019re not going to be good at guitar on the first day,\u201d he said. Instead, he recommends that people approach learning with a more playful attitude. If he writes a prompt now, he has a gut feeling as to how long it will take, and if it takes longer, he reflects on what may have gone wrong and adapts.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cMy\u2026 advice always is, approach it in a playful way. Build something that you always wanted to build. If you\u2019re at least a little bit of a builder, there has to be something on the back of your mind that you want to build. Like, just play.\u201d <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This ability to experiment and have fun is what\u2019s most important, especially at a time when people are worried their jobs will be overtaken by AI. <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cIf your identity is: I want to create things. I want to solve problems. If you\u2019re a high agency, if you\u2019re smart, you will be in more demand than ever,\u201d Steinberger said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2026\/02\/25\/openclaw-creators-advice-to-ai-builders-is-to-be-more-playful-and-allow-yourself-time-to-improve\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Peter Steinberger, the creator&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":25122,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[249],"tags":[6343,1827,2867,11192,14452],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25121"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25121"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25121\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/25122"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25121"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25121"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25121"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}