The creator of Clawd: "I ship code I don't read"

The Pragmatic Engineer · Jan 28, 2026 · 1h 54m

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Peter Steinberger ships more code than I’ve seen a single person do: in January, he was at more than 6,600 commits alone. As he puts it: “From the commits, it might appear like it's a company. But it’s not. This is one dude sitting at home having fun."

How does he do it?

Peter Steinberger is the creator of Clawdbot (as of yesterday: renamed to…