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Git Is the Wrong Tool Now: Rewriting the Social Contract of Agentic Teams with Raffi Krikorian // CTO @ Mozilla

Latest · EP 148 · 15 Oct 2026 · 69 min

Git Is the Wrong Tool Now: Rewriting the Social Contract of Agentic Teams with Raffi Krikorian // CTO @ Mozilla

Raffi Krikorian (CTO, Mozilla; former Twitter platform engineering lead and the DNC's first CTO) on why Git doesn't fit teams that type prompts instead of code, how Mozilla plans to keep AI open without owning it, and why CTOs need a second "power line" into their AI stack.

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Why LLMs Need Their Own Programming Language: From Assembly to AI with Vaibhav Gupta // Co-founder @ BAML
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