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🦄 Peter Steinberger, a burnt-out founder who sold his bootstrapped company after a decade and felt nothing for three years, walked onto the TED 2026 (TED Conferences) stage and told the story of how an AI coding agent gave him his spark back. That experiment became OpenClaw, now one of the fastest-growing open-source projects in the world, which Jensen Huang has called "the operating system for personal AI." The journey was anything but clean. Steinberger accidentally left his agent running on a public Discord overnight, woke up to 800 messages, survived a trademark dispute that forced a mid-launch rename, and added a "heartbeat" feature that lets the agent wake up on its own and check your emails unprompted. In China, installing Open Claw is called "raising lobsters," thousands queued outside a Tencent office in Shenzhen to get it set up, and the city now offers business subsidies for running it. His closing point was simple. "Agents change who can build things," he said, "and that door is not closing again." A retiree automating groceries, a teenager in São Paulo building a tutoring business, a father and son brewing beer with one prompt. None of them programmers. All of them builders. Source: TED Talks #OpenClaw #TED2026 #AIAgents #OpenSource #TechNews