What Chris Wellons thinks about open source

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Software engineer who writes about low-level and systems programming at nullprogram.com; author of the Elfeed feed reader, the Endlessh SSH tarpit and Enchive.

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1 dated position, 2026, in their own words. Our reading of what Chris Wellons has said — not written or endorsed by them.

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1. 29 Mar 2026

   Our readingThere is a large and growing gap between open-weight AI models and frontier AI models.

   Their wordsThere's a huge, growing gap between open weight models and the frontier. Models you can run yourself are toys.

   ↗2026 has been the most pivotal year in my career… and it's only Marchnullprogram.com 1st of 3 in this piece