Peter Steinberger is joining OpenAI, and that move alone is worth your attention. Steinberger built PSPDFKit into a serious enterprise SDK business, so his arrival signals something specific about where OpenAI is investing, not just headcount growth.
The claw story is actually two stories. ZeroClaw is positioned as a ground-up redesign of claw mechanics done correctly. MimiClaw runs the same class of functionality on a $5 chip. That price point matters: it means the architecture scales down to hardware that was previously too constrained to care about.
Steve Yegge's piece on managing what he calls the AI Vampire is the reason to read the full issue. Yegge has a track record of writing things the industry eventually agrees with, and his framing here is not flattering. The telnet obituary rounds it out. Read the original for the Yegge argument in full.
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