After 13 years making PDF software, Peter Steinberger returned to the keyboard with a simpler brief: make something useful, then let people play with it. His WhatsApp experiment became OpenClaw, an open project with a life far beyond one laptop.
At a Vienna technical school, Sebastian De Ro met the collaborator with whom he would build Magic. His path from enterprise software to ultra-long-context AI is a story about how far a working partnership can travel.