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Dev Propulsion Labs

Jeff Huber of Chroma on how small opinionated teams with low egos build the best developer tools

22 Oct 2025

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In this episode of Dev Propulsion Labs, Chroma co-founder Jeff Huber explains why "consensus is a death blow" for great products and reveals his framework for commercializing open source: keep the engine open, monetize the car. He breaks down context engineering, why RAG became industry brain rot, and how small opinionated teams with low egos build the best developer tools.Follow us on X: https://x.com/dpl_podEpisode notes: https://evilmartians.com/events/podcast-jeff-huber-chromaEvil Martians is the go-to agency for early-stage developer tools startups: https://evilmartians.com/devtoolsRecorded at Chroma. Vector, full-text, regex, and metadata search. Develop locally and scale to petabytes in the cloud backed by object storage. Serverless search and retrieval that is fast, cheap, and reliable. https://www.trychroma.comLinks:Chroma: https://x.com/trychromaJeff Huber on X: https://x.com/jeffreyhuberEvil Martians on X: https://x.com/evilmartiansVictoria Melnikova on X: https://x.com/vmelnikova_en

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