Claude Code · Anthropic · AI Agent · Claude · Wired
AI Agents Plunged the Tech World Into Chaos
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“Hi, my name is Peter, and I’m a Claudeholic.”
Key facts
- It was August 2025 and Peter Steinberger was addressing a meetup in London called Claude Code Anonymous
- In November 2025, he launched a tool that’s now called OpenClaw, a simple way to conjure a personal AI agent that exploits the advances of Claude Code or other coding tools
- In less than two weeks, as users downloaded it and began feverishly building, the project racked up more than 100,000 stars. (As of early May, it stood at 366,000 stars.)
- Called Opus 4.5, it could handle more complicated programming tasks, retain much more in its memory, run for many hours on end, and manage a team of AI subagents
Summary
“Hi, my name is Peter, and I’m a Claudeholic.” It was August 2025 and Peter Steinberger was addressing a meetup in London called Claude Code Anonymous. A few months later, Anthropic released a new version of Claude Code, and the ranks of Claudeholics exploded. Countless coders spent the holidays in basements and dens, madly trying out this new toy that let them build software as if they’d unleashed a hundred clones. For the 39-year-old Steinberger, who split his time between homes in London and Vienna, even this was not enough.