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Forking Cal.com to closed supply


This week I’m joined by Peer Richelsen, co-founder of Cal.com. What if nearly all of open supply repositories are already compromised and we simply don’t understand it but? That’s the speculation Peer brings to the desk this week. We dig into how AI has flattened the data graph to the purpose {that a} 16-year-old can vibe hack an influence station simply as simply as their mother can vibe code an iOS app, why the reporting tradition that has stored open supply secure all these years is collapsing below AI generated noise, Cal.com’s transfer to fork its personal codebase and take the delicate elements personal, and the attention opening actuality that delivery “$1 of AI tokens for pennies on the greenback” is now a typical startup enterprise mannequin.

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Editorial disclosure: Adam states within the episode that he’s a small seed investor in Cal.com.

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