A three-person team led by Peter Steinberger keeps about 100 Codex instances running for the open-source project OpenClaw, driving OpenAI API spend to $1.3 million a month. Steinberger frames the bill as a research investment: he wants to see what software development looks like when token costs don't matter.

A three-person team led by Peter Steinberger keeps about 100 Codex instances running for the open-source project OpenClaw, driving OpenAI API spend to $1.3 million a month.…

Peter Steinberger's three-person team runs 100 AI coding agents on OpenAI's tab.