Open Source AI in 2026: Models, Tools, and Protocols
The open source AI ecosystem is no longer chasing proprietary models; it is building the infrastructure layer that proprietary systems depend on
Thoughts on engineering leadership, distributed systems, architecture, and the craft of building software.
The open source AI ecosystem is no longer chasing proprietary models; it is building the infrastructure layer that proprietary systems depend on
Loki Mode has been globally adopted and the enterprise feature requests reveal what organizations actually need from autonomous AI agent systems
MediCompanion is an open source AI health companion designed for patient education and chronic condition management, with safety as the foundational constraint
Building a graphical interface for Kubernetes that complements K9s and kubectl, designed for teams where not everyone lives in the terminal
The architecture behind Next Portal, an open source internal developer platform built to reduce cognitive load rather than add another tool to the stack
Why I built FireLater, an open source incident and change management platform, and how it replaces six-figure enterprise licenses with a free tool
How an enterprise MCP server collection went from a personal project to globally adopted open source infrastructure
Introducing Loki Mode — a multi-agent autonomous system for Claude Code with 41 agent types across 8 swarms