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Running multiple AI coding agents locally overheats machines and slows systems down, which is why Peter Steinberger built Crabbox to run OpenClaw agents in the cloud instead.

Peter Steinberger got fed up with local OpenClaw agents overheating his CPU and slowing his system, so he built Crabbox to run them remotely in the cloud. ✦ AI generated

Peter Steinberger · The Pragmatic Engineer · 2026-06-30 · original ↗

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He talked about how he has gotten really tired of having several OpenClaw agents running on his local machine, which heat up the CPU and slow down his whole system. So, he built Crabbox as a way to run OpenClaw agents in the cloud

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