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Handshakes with Strangers
How open source can protect us from ourselves.
Jun 5 • Raffi Krikorian
Make It Stop
An open-source sermon for developers. (With apologies to Pope Leo.)
Jun 3 • Raffi Krikorian

May 2026

The Rent Is Due
Frontier models got pricier. Open models got better.
May 29 • Raffi Krikorian
The Chat Agent in Your Closet
Every doc you write, every cart you fill. Watching. For you.
May 28 • Raffi Krikorian
Privacy Laundering
Chrome’s not-so-model AI behavior.
May 21 • Raffi Krikorian
The Week in Open Source
Jack Dorsey’s AI stance, laptops as data centers, and the end of encrypted messages?
May 15 • Raffi Krikorian
Call My Agent
Meet the most important layer in the stack.
May 13 • Raffi Krikorian
The Complete ChatGPT Algorithm in 200 Lines + Minecraft’s Huge Secret
What I've been thinking about in open source and AI
May 8 • Raffi Krikorian
DIY Daily
How to turn your self-hosted agent into a private news briefing.
May 6 • Raffi Krikorian

April 2026

Let’s Get You Paid
The companies on the open side of the gap are hiring into it. So I built an index.
Apr 29 • Raffi Krikorian
AI Agents, Robot Data, and Maxing out Claude
The week in the world of open-source.
Apr 24 • Raffi Krikorian
Save the prompts, save the stack
You built the stack. Now build the eval. Gemma 4 26B vs Qwen 3 Coder 30B, DIY.
Apr 22 • Raffi Krikorian
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