Open-source AI coding harness. The transcript garbles the name as "openclaw" — Garry Tan's actual reference is to the open-source AI coding harness community (the user's Hermes agent uses this via OpenCode / similar). Started by Peter Steinberger. OpenAI acquired / hired the team.
"Now there's this new phenomenon that only happened since November I would say where there's this other thing called openclaw which openai just bought and it's an open source package though. So, I think they basically just kind of brought the people in."
"Started by this guy named Peter Steinberger. I mean, it's a social movement at this point. It's actually very anti-corporate. It's like the definition of open source from the bottom up. And I'm a total believer in it now."
"The ridiculous thing is I dressed up in a lobster suit for our podcast, The Light Cone. And the internet didn't seem to like that very much, but I didn't care. But I actually at that moment wearing the lobster suit, it was more kind of a joke to me. I didn't really get that there was this new phenomenon called openclaw. And now I get it. I see the religion."
"There's sort of like the one world government people. And then there's the sort of renegade people who are like, 'No, no, no. I want to be a pirate. I don't want to join the Navy. I want to be a pirate.' And personally, I'm team pirate. So I, you know, I think that personal responsibility, personal liberty, and personal computing and personal value... the idea that the thing that's right for one person is right for everybody else is a crazy idea."
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