{"id":589447,"date":"2026-05-17T19:47:17","date_gmt":"2026-05-17T19:47:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/589447\/"},"modified":"2026-05-17T19:47:17","modified_gmt":"2026-05-17T19:47:17","slug":"for-1-3-million-a-month-openclaw-founder-peter-steinberger-runs-100-ai-agents-that-code-review-prs-and-find-bugs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/589447\/","title":{"rendered":"For $1.3 million a month, OpenClaw founder Peter Steinberger runs 100 AI agents that code, review PRs, and find bugs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Peter Steinberger, founder of the open-source project OpenClaw, shared how his team uses AI to build software.\u00a0His team of about three people,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/the-decoder.com\/openclaw-developer-peter-steinberger-joins-openai-to-build-ai-agents\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">working at OpenAI<\/a>, keeps roughly 100 Codex instances running in the cloud. They review PRs, find security holes in commits, deduplicate issues, and write fixes. Some agents open PRs based on the project&#8217;s vision; others monitor benchmarks and report regressions in Discord. Agents even listen in on meetings and start PRs for features the team discusses. The team also uses\u00a0Clawpatch.ai, Vercel&#8217;s Deepsec, and Codex Security for bug and security analysis.<\/p>\n<p>In 30 days, the OpenAI API bill hit $1.3 million for 603 billion tokens and 7.6 million requests. The top model was GPT-5.5, and OpenAI picks up the tab. Whether that&#8217;s cheap or expensive depends on your perspective.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/steinberger_api_cost.png\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-35550 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/steinberger_api_cost.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1310\" height=\"1212\"\/><\/a><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/steipete\/status\/2055346265869721905\">Steinberger via X<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/steipete\/status\/2055405041843052792\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Steinberger defended<\/a>\u00a0the cost, saying he&#8217;s exploring how software would be built if token costs didn&#8217;t matter. <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/developers.openai.com\/codex\/speed\">Turning off &#8220;Fast Mode&#8221;<\/a> alone, he says, would cut costs by 70 percent. <a href=\"https:\/\/the-decoder.com\/frontier-radar-2-why-ai-productivity-gets-lost-between-benchmarks-and-the-balance-sheet\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Asked about ROI<\/a>, he said everything his team builds is open source and works with leading models as well as open ones. &#8220;I&#8217;d say pretty high.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\tAI News Without the Hype \u2013 Curated by Humans<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\t\tSubscribe to THE DECODER for ad-free reading, a weekly AI newsletter, our exclusive &#8220;AI Radar&#8221; frontier report six times a year, full archive access, and access to our comment section.\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/the-decoder.com\/subscription\/\" class=\"inline-block text-white bg-(--heise-primary) mt-3 hover:bg-blue-800 focus:ring-4 focus:outline-none focus:ring-blue-300 font-medium rounded-sm w-full sm:w-auto  pl-3 pr-3 py-2.5 text-center newsletter-submit-button hover:no-underline\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\tSubscribe now\t\t\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Peter Steinberger, founder of the open-source project OpenClaw, shared how his team uses AI to build software.\u00a0His team&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":589448,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[554,733,4308,874,157350,86,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-589447","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-ai","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificialintelligence","tag-openai","tag-openclaw","tag-technology","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/589447","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=589447"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/589447\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/589448"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=589447"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=589447"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=589447"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}