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OpenAI's latest hire changes everything about AI's next move
1+ hour, 55+ min ago (934+ words) The chatbot era is quietly coming to an end, and OpenAI just made the hire that signals what comes next. Peter Steinberger, the Austrian developer behind OpenClaw, one of the most viral open source AI agent frameworks ever built, is…...
Who is OpenClaw creator Peter Steinberger? The millennial developer caught the attention of Sam Altman and Mark Zuckerberg
9+ hour, 59+ min ago (376+ words) I felt like Austin Powers where they suck the mojo out," he told Lex Fridman in a recent, sprawling interview. I couldn't get code out anymore. I was just, like, staring and feeling empty." Yet, despite the levity, experts have…...
Big Tech alum says the individual contributor role is 'probably over' — AI is making everyone a manager
20+ hour, 9+ min ago (403+ words) OpenAI and Meta alum Philip Su said that AI was turning software engineers into managers. Individual contributors are now performing managerial skills like delegating and giving feedback, he wrote in a Substack essay. Meanwhile, Big Tech is thinning out traditional…...
Ex-Tesla AI head has seen a 'phase shift in software engineering' using Claude Code — and his manual skills slowly 'atrophy"
3+ day, 2+ hour ago (467+ words) Andrej Karpathy posted his "notes from Claude Coding," describing a recent "phase shift" in software engineering. "I really am mostly programming in English now," Karpathy wrote, describing the slow "atrophy" of his manual coding skills. Engineers from xAI and Anthropic…...
Anthropic's CEO says we're in the 'centaur phase' of software engineering
3+ day, 5+ hour ago (767+ words) Dario Amodei compared AI and humans working together to a mythical creature " the horse-and-human centaur. "We're already in our centaur phase for software," Amodei said. Software execs argue AI boosts engineer productivity, instead of cutting jobs. Dario Amodei has a…...
Snowflake's CEO says software giants risk becoming a 'dumb data pipe' to AI models
3+ day, 12+ hour ago (401+ words) Snowflake's CEO warned that software companies may become mere data sources to AI labs. AI firms like OpenAI are aiming to consolidate enterprise data in one place, he said. He said that the solution is to let customers decide how…...
OpenClaw founder Steinberger joins OpenAI, open-source bot becomes foundation
3+ day, 19+ hour ago (223+ words) Feb 15 (Reuters) - Peter Steinberger, the founder of OpenClaw, is joining OpenAI, and the open-source bot "is becoming a foundation, OpenAI CEO Sam "Altman said on Sunday. "Peter Steinberger is joining OpenAI to drive the "next generation of personal agents," Altman…...
Cisco's president says AI agents need 'background checks' like human workers
4+ day, 1+ hour ago (423+ words) AI agents "need to get the background checks done," Cisco's president says. "You have to protect the world from the agent that goes rogue," said Jeetu Patel. He predicts that Cisco will have "at least half a dozen products" written…...
Microsoft AI Chief Mustafa Suleyman Says Most Professional Tasks Will Be Fully Automated By AI Within 12-18 Months
4+ day, 4+ hour ago (476+ words) Mustafa Suleyman, CEO of Microsoft AI, made a bold prediction about the future of professional tasks, suggesting that "most, if not all, professional tasks" for lawyers, accountants, project managers, and marketing professionals "will be fully automated by AI within the…...
Spotify said AI has been doing the heavy lifting for its coding since December
5+ day, 23+ hour ago (304+ words) According to the music streaming platform Spotify and its co-CEO Gustav S'derstr'm, the company's best developers "have not written a single line of code since December." Yet Spotify continues to roll out new features at the same pace, with more…...