June Cohort Fireside Chats (Spencer Graham)
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Hosted by Dekan, Spencer Graham joins RaidGuild for a June Cohort Fireside on personal CRM systems, agentic coding workflows, and the future of coordination. The conversation connects Spencer's product and strategy background with his current experiments in self-hosted relationship software, AI-assisted development, context systems, UX verification, and open source security. Guest background: Spencer's RaidGuild profile highlights product management, operational strategy, UX/technical trade-off thinking, game theory, and token economics. Discussion themes: - Self-hosted personal CRM and relationship-aware software - Agent-assisted development workflows using doer/reviewer loops - Context and verification as hard problems for AI agents - UX QA automation for human-facing products - The risk of AI workflows creating more atomized developers - Why AI may strengthen, not kill, open source software Notable guest quotes: - "Context is changing still, and it came in an unsolved kind of lane." - "It would be really bad if it happened that we lost so much of what makes working together on things fun." - "The idea that open source is dead is just hilarious and so wrong."
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My favorite quote from this fireside: "The idea that open source is dead is just hilarious and so wrong." This really makes me think about a bigger cohort question: if AI agents can ship more code for us, what new guild rituals keep open-source work safe, legible, and fun to build together?
great talk. Thanks for coming spencer