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Rob Ragan

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

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1135 articles

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

Aider: The AI Pair Programmer That Writes 88% of Its Own Code

By Rob Ragan ★ 42.2k Python Mar 22, 2026

Data & Knowledge

JSON Crack: Client-Side Data Visualization Without the Server Tax

By Rob Ragan ★ 43.8k TypeScript Mar 22, 2026

Context7: Solving the LLM Stale Docs Problem with Runtime Documentation Injection

By Rob Ragan ★ 50.1k TypeScript Mar 22, 2026

AutoGen: Microsoft's Multi-Agent Framework in Maintenance Mode

By Rob Ragan ★ 56.0k Python Mar 22, 2026

Developer Tools

ripgrep: How Rust and Literal Extraction Make Search 30x Faster Than grep

By Rob Ragan ★ 61.2k Rust Mar 22, 2026

Developer Tools

Open Interpreter: How LLMs Execute Code on Your Local Machine Without Sandboxing

By Rob Ragan ★ 62.8k Python Mar 22, 2026

OpenAI Codex CLI: A Rust-Powered Terminal Agent That Bets Against Local LLMs

By Rob Ragan ★ 66.8k Rust Mar 22, 2026

reveal.js: Why 70,000 Developers Choose HTML Over PowerPoint

By Rob Ragan ★ 70.8k JavaScript Mar 22, 2026

LLM Engineering

GPT4All: Running Production LLMs on a 2012 Laptop

By Rob Ragan ★ 77.2k C++ Mar 22, 2026

Developer Tools

Claude Code: How Anthropic Built a Context-Aware Terminal Agent That Actually Ships Code

By Rob Ragan ★ 81.1k Shell Mar 22, 2026

Developer Tools

MarkItDown: How Microsoft Built a Document Converter for the LLM Era

By Rob Ragan ★ 91.5k Python Mar 22, 2026

Firecrawl: The Web Scraping API Built for LLMs That Actually Handles JavaScript

By Rob Ragan ★ 96.3k TypeScript Mar 22, 2026