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Rob Ragan

Rob Ragan

Offensive security researcher and AI agent architect. Founder of Starlog.

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Rob Ragan is an offensive security researcher and AI agent architect who has spent two decades breaking into systems and building tools to automate the process. At Starlog, he curates expert deep-dives on the open-source tools reshaping offensive security and AI agent development.

// ARTICLES BY ROB RAGAN

Developer Tools

Modern Unix: A Field Guide to the Rust-Powered CLI Revolution

By Rob Ragan ★ 32.8k Unknown Mar 22, 2026
Developer Tools

Marker: How Computer Vision and LLMs Team Up to Parse PDFs at 25 Pages Per Second

By Rob Ragan ★ 32.9k Python Mar 22, 2026
AI Dev Tools

DSPy: Stop Writing Prompts, Start Compiling LLM Programs

By Rob Ragan ★ 33.0k Python Mar 22, 2026
AI Agents

DeerFlow: Building Production Multi-Agent Systems with Sandboxed Execution and Persistent Memory

By Rob Ragan ★ 33.6k Python Mar 22, 2026
Developer Tools

Wails: Building Native Desktop Apps in Go Without Bundling Chromium

By Rob Ragan ★ 33.4k Go Mar 22, 2026
AI Agents

Goose: The Autonomous AI Agent That Actually Executes Your Code

By Rob Ragan ★ 33.4k Rust Mar 22, 2026
AI Agents

LibreChat: Building a Multi-Provider AI Gateway with Resumable Streams and Code Execution

By Rob Ragan ★ 34.8k TypeScript Mar 22, 2026
LLM Engineering

BitNet.cpp: Running 100B Parameter Models on Your Laptop at Human Reading Speed

By Rob Ragan ★ 36.3k Python Mar 22, 2026
LLM Engineering

Open-Assistant: How LAION Crowdsourced the First Open RLHF Dataset for Conversational AI

By Rob Ragan ★ 37.4k Python Mar 22, 2026
Developer Tools

How .cursorrules Became the Unexpected Design Pattern for AI-Assisted Development

By Rob Ragan ★ 38.6k MDX Mar 22, 2026
Cybersecurity

Novu: Building Multi-Channel Notification Infrastructure Without the Vendor Lock-In

By Rob Ragan ★ 38.7k TypeScript Mar 22, 2026
AI Agents

Agno: The Production Runtime That Treats Agent Approval Workflows as Code

By Rob Ragan ★ 38.9k Python Mar 22, 2026