OpenClaw founder spends $1.3M monthly on 100 autonomous coding agents
peter steinberger runs 100 ai agents at openai that code, review prs, and find bugs, costing $1.3 million in api fees for 603 billion tokens in one month.
operating within openai, peter steinberger's openclaw project utilizes approximately 100 instances of codex to autonomously write code, review pull requests, detect security vulnerabilities, and deduplicate issues. the system monitored benchmarks for regressions and even integrated into meetings to initiate feature pull requests based on discussions. usage statistics for the month totaled 603 billion tokens across 7.6 million requests, with primary reliance on the gpt-5.5 model. while the $1.3 million monthly bill is covered by openai, steinberger argues the research value is high, noting the architecture supports various proprietary and open-source models.