Peter Steinberger is joining OpenAI, and that single hire anchors an issue packed with sharper technical content. Two claw-related projects compete for attention: ZeroClaw, billed as the correct way to build a claw interface, and MimiClaw, which runs on a $5 chip and proves the concept does not need expensive hardware to matter.
Steve Yegge's piece on managing what he calls the AI Vampire is the kind of first-person technical reckoning that cuts through abstract AI discourse. The telnet obituary rounds out the issue with a concrete end-of-era data point worth knowing.
The Steinberger hire, the $5 chip constraint on MimiClaw, and Yegge's framing are the three reasons to read the full issue, not just the headlines.
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