Viewpoint
Learning to say no and using vision.md to guide OpenClaw
Learning to say no and using vision.md to guide OpenClaw
Peter reflects that he didn't say no enough to features and PRs in OpenClaw, leading to bloat and maintenance burden. He now uses a vision.md file to define project direction and emphasizes the responsibility of merging community code.
- Speaker
- Peter Steinberger
- Source timestamp
- 36:09
More from this interview
- Building a WhatsApp relay to escape the keyboard led to OpenClaw
- OpenClaw went viral overnight after an accidental agent run
- Choosing OpenAI over VC and trusting personal brand
- Rivals won on marketing while OpenClaw faced feature creep
- Personal brand outlasts software and needs early attention
- Fun drives velocity and building what annoys you
- Code review as risk management with agent-assisted testing
- Managing compute is the biggest agentic infrastructure bottleneck
- Startups should focus on eyeballs and hard boring categories