#148 Git Is the Wrong Tool Now: Rewriting the Social Contract of Agentic Teams with Raffi Krikorian // CTO @ Mozilla

Raffi Krikorian has built teams at scale: platform engineering at Twitter, Uber's self-driving center, and the Democratic National Committee, where he was its first CTO. Today he's CTO of Mozilla, working to make AI as open as the web, and on the side he runs three rotating Claude Max subscriptions and a GPU in his closet.

Tobi and Raffi look at what agentic coding has done to engineering teams. Writing code used to be a social contract: coordinating with other teams, negotiating requirements, sharing work. Now one person with agents does all of it alone. Raffi argues that Git, built to commit bytes, doesn't fit a world where nobody types the bytes anymore, and that the tooling, processes and roles for working as a team still need to be invented.

The conversation then moves to Mozilla's strategy: building an open source AI ecosystem without owning it, convincing CTOs and CEOs (not just developers) that open-weight models are safe to deploy, and pushing for standards like portable memory so switching providers stays possible. CTOs will come away with a clear argument for building leverage into their AI stack before their teams get locked into a single vendor's playbook.

- Why Git may be the wrong tool for agentic teams - Why we may need more engineering and product managers, not fewer - Raffi's personal setup: a local Hermes agent, rotating subscriptions and a sandboxed Claude Code - Mozilla's plan for an open source AI ecosystem and open standards - Memory as the new lock-in, and a portable memory standard - Why chatbots should be measured by usefulness, not engagement - What Raffi would tell his 2009 self about shutting down the Twitter API