Forking Cal.com to closed source (Interview)

Adam Stacoviak talks with Peer Richelsen, co-founder of Cal.com, about a provocative theory: that the majority of open source repositories may already be compromised without our knowledge. They explore how AI has flattened the knowledge graph, enabling even a 16-year-old to “vibe hack” a power station or a mom to “vibe code” an iOS app, and how the resulting AI-generated noise is breaking the reporting culture that has kept open source safe. The conversation covers Cal.com’s decision to fork its own codebase and take the sensitive parts private, the technical and philosophical fallout of that move, and the rise of a startup business model built around selling AI tokens at a steep discount.