Comment by tummler

5 days ago

I don't mean to be cynical, but I read this move as: OpenAI scared, no way to make money with similar product, so acqui-hire the creator to keep him busy.

I'd love to be wrong, but the blog post sounds like all the standard promises were made, and that's usually how these things go.

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blackoil  5 days ago

It isn't an acqui-hire just a simple hiring. Also unless creator is some mythical 100x developer, there will be enough developers

  • whattheheckheck  5 days ago

    He is a mythical 100x dev compared to how everyone else is doing agentic engineering... look at the openclaw commit history on github. Everything's on main

    • nosuchthing  5 days ago

      Peter has been running agents overnight for months using free tokens from his influencer payments to promote AI startups and multiple subscription accounts:

        Hi, my name is Peter and I’m a Claudoholic. I’m addicted to agentic engineering. And sometimes I just vibe-code. ...  I currently have 4 OpenAI subs and 1 Anthropic sub, so my overall costs are around 1k/month for basically unlimited tokens. If I’d use API calls, that’d cost my around 10x more. Don’t nail me on this math, I used some token counting tools like ccusage and it’s all somewhat imprecise, but even if it’s just 5x it’s a damn good deal.

  ...  Sometimes [GPT-5-Codex] refactors for half an hour and then panics and reverts everything, and you need to re-run and soothen it like a child to tell it that it has enough time. Sometimes it forgets that it can do bash commands and it requires some encouragement. Sometimes it replies in russian or korean. Sometimes the monster slips and sends raw thinking to bash.

      https://github.com/steipete/steipete.me/commit/725a3cb372bc2...

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