Open-Source
Public code and community projects
61 practitioners working with Open-Source:
Adam Azzam's ControlFlow Framework
How Prefect's VP of Product built ControlFlow and Marvin, bringing workflow orchestration and failure handling to AI agents with native observability
Alex Newman's Persistent Memory for Claude Code
How a 20-year web veteran built the most-starred Claude Code plugin by treating AI memory as a compression problem
Amjad Masad's Replit Vision
How the Replit founder is democratizing software creation with AI-powered coding environments
Andreas Stuhlmuller's Factored Cognition
How the Elicit founder breaks complex AI reasoning into verifiable subtasks, enabling weaker models to reliably catch errors from stronger ones
Anton Osika: From Particle Physics to $6B AI Startup
How the gpt-engineer creator built Lovable into Europe's fastest-growing AI coding company with 8M users and $200M ARR.
Ariya Hidayat's Anti-Framework Approach to LLM Development
The creator of PhantomJS and Esprima argues against LLM frameworks, showing how to build AI tools with simple API calls instead
Armin Ronacher's Agentic Coding Practice
How the Flask creator approaches AI-assisted development with Claude Code — token-efficient, low-intervention, and surprisingly Vim-friendly
Artur Piszek's WordPress Personal OS
How a software engineer turned WordPress into a self-hosted personal operating system with AI-ready architecture
Bas Nijholt's Agentic Coding Journey
How a quantum physicist at IonQ went from AI skeptic to shipping packages faster than ever with Claude Code
Brandon Redmond's Claude SDK for Rust
A former math teacher built the first community Rust SDK for Claude Code, making type-safe AI agents accessible to systems programmers.
Brian Casel's Spec-Driven Development
How a serial bootstrapper built Agent OS and Design OS to bring structure to AI-assisted coding workflows
Cole Medin's Context Engineering Method
How a YouTube educator turned AI coding into a repeatable system with context engineering, PRPs, and open-source agent builders
Daniel Miessler's Personal AI Infrastructure
How a security veteran built Fabric and PAI to turn AI tools into a unified cognitive operating system
Daniel Vassallo's Small Bets: How to Build a Portfolio of Profitable Products
Learn Daniel Vassallo's Small Bets philosophy: how he left a $500K Amazon job to make $1M+ with tiny products by embracing randomness and portfolio thinking.
David Soria Parra's Model Context Protocol
How an ex-Facebook engineer frustrated with copy-paste workflows created MCP, now the standard for connecting AI to external tools.
daytona
secure, elastic infrastructure for running AI-generated code. the 'let your agent run this safely' problem gets its own runtime.
Debanjum Singh's Open Personal AI
How the Khoj founder builds trustworthy AI assistants that search your documents locally
Dylan Freedman's Local Semantic Search
How the NYT AI Projects Editor built Semantra, an open-source privacy-first tool for searching PDFs and documents by meaning instead of exact keywords
Elie Steinbock's Inbox Zero
How the Israeli founder built Inbox Zero, an open-source AI email assistant with plain-English rules that hit #1 on GitHub and won Best AI at FOSS Awards
Ettore Di Giacinto's LocalAI Platform
How an Italian open-source veteran built a drop-in OpenAI replacement that runs on consumer hardware with no GPU required
Geoffrey Litt's Malleable Software Vision
How a researcher at Ink & Switch and Notion is building toward software that users can reshape like clay
Georgi Gerganov's Local LLM Revolution
How a Bulgarian physicist built llama.cpp and made large language models run on laptops, phones, and Raspberry Pis
Gregor Zunic's Browser Use Framework
How the ETH Zurich founder built the open-source library that lets AI agents control web browsers like humans do
Hamel Husain's AI Evaluation Framework
How the CodeSearchNet pioneer built a systematic approach to debugging AI products through structured evaluation
heretic
fully automatic censorship removal for language models. 8,000+ stars in 24 hours. not an endorsement — a signal about who owns your AI's behavior.
Jason Liu's Structured Output Methodology
How the Instructor creator built tools that force LLMs to return validated, type-safe data
Jason McGhee's WebMCP: Turning Websites Into AI Tool Servers
How a former Cursor co-founder built WebMCP to let any website expose tools to AI agents without sharing API keys, now being standardized by W3C.
Jeffrey Emanuel's Agentic Coding Flywheel
A former quant investor built 70+ open-source tools that let AI coding agents coordinate like a self-managing development team.
Jeremy Longshore's Claude Code Plugins Hub
How an operations manager turned AI consultant built a 549-skill marketplace that turns plugins into production workflows
Jesse Vincent's Superpowers Skills Framework
How the Keyboardio founder built an agentic skills methodology that turns Claude Code into a self-steering development system
João Moura's Multi-Agent Framework
How the CrewAI founder built a platform powering 1.4 billion agentic automations by orchestrating AI agents as collaborative crews
John Lindquist's TypeScript Hooks for Claude Code
How the egghead.io co-founder brings type safety to Claude Code automation after spending over 1 billion tokens on AI-assisted development
KittenTTS
sub-25MB text-to-speech model. three sizes. Apache 2.0. local voice for your personal AI setup.
Kye Gomez's Enterprise Multi-Agent Swarms Framework
How the Swarms AI founder is building infrastructure for the multi-trillion dollar agent economy—orchestrating autonomous agent swarms at enterprise scale.
Linus Lee's Custom AI Tools
How a tools-for-thought researcher builds personal AI systems from scratch to expand what's possible to think
Maggie Appleton's Digital Garden: Six Patterns for Building a Personal Knowledge System
Learn Maggie Appleton's proven digital garden framework: topography over timelines, growth indicators, and evergreen notes for public learning.
Magnus Muller's Event-Driven Agent Architecture
How the Browser Use co-founder built a CLAUDE.md-powered codebase and event bus system for AI browser automation
Mario Zechner's Minimal Coding Agent
Pi-coding-agent uses 4 tools, no permissions, no MCP. The minimal Claude Code alternative that actually works.
Max Woolf's Selective AI Approach
The BuzzFeed data scientist builds AI tools while rarely using generative LLMs himself
Mckay Wrigley's AI Coding Education
How Mckay Wrigley built the most popular open-source AI chat UI and now teaches 25k+ people to code with AI through Takeoff.
Nat Friedman's AI Experiments
Former GitHub CEO who builds personal AI tools like natbot and openplayground, co-founded AI Grant and the Vesuvius Challenge to read ancient scrolls with ML
Nir Gazit's Open LLM Observability
How the Traceloop founder built OpenLLMetry to bring OpenTelemetry standards to LLM applications
Omar Khattab's DSPy Framework
How a Stanford PhD built a programming model that replaces brittle prompts with declarative Python code
openai acqui-hired openclaw's creator. the project lives on. here's what actually happened.
OpenAI didn't acquire OpenClaw — they hired Peter Steinberger. the project becomes a foundation. this is the new talent acquisition playbook.
Paul Gauthier's Terminal-First AI Coding
How the Inktomi co-founder built Aider, the open-source terminal tool that treats AI as a pair programmer instead of an autonomous agent
Personal AI Operating Systems
Comparison of 12 open-source personal AI systems: AutoGPT, Open Interpreter, CrewAI, Quivr, Khoj, Haystack, Letta, Leon, and more. Stars, features, setup complexity, and recommendations
Qwen Code
an open-source AI coding agent that lives in your terminal. Alibaba's answer to Claude Code — MIT-licensed, built on Qwen models.
Rick Hightower's Universal Skill Installer
How a Fortune 100 AI architect built skilz, the package manager that installs agent skills across 14+ coding assistants
Rowboat
open-source AI coworker with persistent memory
Shreya Rajpal: Making AI Reliable with Guardrails
founder of guardrails ai who built the leading open-source framework for validating llm outputs and preventing hallucinations in production
signals — february 4, 2026
parasites and platforms: vibe coding hollows out open source, agents learn to steal your cookies, and three companies ship the same OS without calling it one
Simon Willison's Workflow
How the Django co-creator uses CLI tools, SQLite logging, and rapid prototyping to build an AI-powered workflow
Stan Girard's Open Source RAG Framework
How the Quivr creator went from weekend prototype to 38K GitHub stars and Y Combinator backing
Steve Krouse's Val Town Platform
How the Future of Coding creator built a social platform where AI can deploy JavaScript in 100 milliseconds
Suchintan Singh's Vision-Based Browser Automation
How the Skyvern founder built an AI agent that sees websites like humans do instead of parsing brittle HTML
the OS wars are starting
Stripe ships disposable agents. pentagi hacks autonomously. three new OS frameworks drop in one week. system prompts leak everywhere. the stack is forking.
the personal AI stack is fracturing (and that might be fine)
OpenClaw got shut down, HN is flooded with homegrown agent tools, and GGML just joined HuggingFace. The personal AI OS isn't consolidating — it's splintering into a thousand incompatible experiments. Maybe that's exactly what needs to happen.
Thorsten Ball's Agentic Coding Vision
How the Amp lead at Sourcegraph reconciles skeptical friends and transformative personal experience with AI coding agents
Ty Dunn's Context Engineering for AI Coding
How the Continue.dev founder makes AI assistants productive through systematic context delivery and developer data collection
Yohei Nakajima's Build-in-Public AI Agent System
How the BabyAGI creator and VC uses autonomous agents in his daily work—building experiments publicly to learn faster, meet founders, and contribute to the ecosystem.
zvec
lightweight, in-process vector database from Alibaba. your AI's memory layer without the infrastructure overhead.