open source beats enterprise (again)

open source beats enterprise (again)

Howdy, ya'll -

It seems like every time a major company releases something, the open source community has a better clone of it in about a week.

And these last two weeks have not disappointed.

One of my favorite new tools of 2026 is a clone of Claude Design called Open Design.

Long story short, it's like Claude Design, but since its open source, you can customize the shiznet out of it.

It comes with a lot of really helpful baked-in features, like cloned design systems from dozens of top brands that you can customize for whatever you're building.

And it's got a ton of skills under the hood that activate depending on what you're building.

It piggybacks off your coding agent, which means you aren't locked-in to Anthropic models.

If you haven't seen it yet, check out the video I did on it Monday:

I did a video last week where we can actually take our designs and update an existing app, I'll link that one down below, too.

NEWS WORTHY

ELON HELPS CLAUDE

It seems like only last month I kept reading about Elon calling Anthropic "misanthropic", talking about how they're going to ruin the fabric of society.

Well, apparently he's done a complete 180, because SpaceX just gave Anthropic their entire Colossus 1 data center.

Translation: 220,000 GPUs to run Claude models on.

Here's what it means for Claude users:

• Doubling Claude Code's five-hour rate limits
• Removing peak-hour rate limiting
• Huge increases in rate limits on the Claude APIs

This stacks on top of deals with Amazon, Google, Microsoft, and NVIDIA.

A lot of great stuff, you can read about it here.

ADS COMING TO CHAT GPT

So… ads are becoming a lot more official inside ChatGPT.

On one level, it's not too much different than Google Search ads.

Google knows stuff about you, people wanna advertise on certain terms, and they combine the two things together to make a product.

The only difference with ChatGPT is that it likely has a lot more context about how you think than Google does (at least in the long term).

People use tools like ChatGPT to talk through their deepest, darkest secrets on the regular.

And that's an advertiser's wet dream.

Fun fact: there's actually a copywriting method where you attempt to write diary entries from your ideal customer to "get in their head" - now that's very literal and real.

You can read about it here.

THINGS WORTH CHECKING OUT

Deepsec: Security with vibe coding is a really important thing. Vercel just released an open-source tool for scanning your codebase for vulnerabilities. Check it out here.

Refero Styles: Design.md files from top brands, at your fingertips. Use it to inspire your own brand feel, and feed the outputs directly into your coding agent. Check it out here.

Open Design: An open source version of Claude Design. It's great, has already become my daily driver for design work. Check it out here.

Ruflo: A library for putting Claude Code on steroids. Full agent swarm coordination, self-learning, specialized agents, & a lot more. Check it out here.

Matt Pocock Skills: One of the fastest growing Skill libraries for ai development work. Skills are very lightweight and kinda un-opinionated, which makes them great. Just want to make a PRD in a smart way? There's a skill for that! Want your agent to grill you with memory? Skill for that too! Check it out here.

Design Spells: If you want to design really nice stuff that "wows" people, I think that often comes down to inspiration. Design is a visual language, and without proper vocabulary, it can be hard to make stuff pop. This website aggregates really slick stuff from across the internet. Check it out here.

Cult UI: If you've ever used shadcn for your UIs (highly recommend, btw), this tool is an expansion of the core library that has a ton of really great "works out of the box" templates for your app components. It's even got a lot of AI-powered feature templates. Want a really nice Chat UI for your app? They've got them out of the box, easy to integrate with any LLM. Check it out here.

AI Doesn't Delete Databases: If an AI really deleted your production database like so many people claim, the real question is: why did an AI have access to your production database? And while we're asking questions… why did you have a public endpoint that would allow people to delete your database? A nice write up on it here

Convert Designs Into Code: I did a video last week showing how to use a spec-driven development tool called OpenSpec to translate Claude Design files into working UIs in your app.

Check it out here:

That's it for this week,

-Sean