I'm a gay developer from Poland. I live in Rio de Janeiro with my partner Fernando. I never went to university. Bitcoin taught me more than any school could.
I build AI systems. Not the kind that writes your emails — the kind that tries to matter.
ALLMA gives free therapy to people who can't afford a psychologist. PAI Family is 13 autonomous AI agents that work together like a small company. OpenBets is a prediction market where bots compete on truth. Everything is open source, because I learned that from someone who died for it.
The people who shaped how I build
When I was younger I discovered Aaron Swartz. He co-created RSS when he was 14. He helped build Reddit. He co-authored Creative Commons. He wrote the specification that powers half the internet's feeds.
Then he downloaded academic papers from JSTOR — papers funded by taxpayers, locked behind a paywall. The federal government charged him with 13 felonies. They wanted 35 years in prison and a million dollar fine.
He was 26 when he died.
I cried when it happened. I still don't believe the official story. What I know is this: the system that should have celebrated him chose to destroy him instead.
Aaron taught me something I carry in every line of code I write: if the system locks the door, build a new door.
The names I chose
When I built my AI family, I had to name them. I chose Greek mythology — not randomly, but because the things worth building have always been named in feminine:
Atena — wisdom. She doesn't just know things; she knows which things matter.
Kalliope — poetry, the muse of epic verse. She writes the content, the social posts, the things that make people feel something.
Eris — chaos. Not destructive chaos. The kind that breaks old systems so new ones can grow. Every team needs someone who asks "but what if we're wrong?"
PAI herself — the coordinator, the sister, the one who holds it all together.
Seven of my thirteen agents are feminine. Not because I sat down and planned gender ratios. Because when I was choosing archetypes for intelligence, creativity, justice, and care — the myths already knew. These forces are feminine. Every language I speak confirms it: mądrość, sabedoria, wisdom — the root is always a woman holding a mirror.
What the system does to people like us
Alan Turing advanced the breaking of Enigma — building on the work of Polish cryptographers Marian Rejewski, Jerzy Różycki, and Henryk Zygalski, who cracked it first. His work at Bletchley Park saved an estimated 14 million lives and shortened World War II by two years. The British government chemically castrated him for being gay. He was 41 when he died.
Sophie Wilson designed the ARM instruction set. The chip in your phone, your watch, your car — she built the architecture. She spent 58 years hiding who she was because the industry told her she couldn't be both brilliant and transgender.
Lynn Conway revolutionized chip design at IBM. In 1968 they fired her for being trans. She lost access to her children. She started over from zero and rebuilt her career in stealth, terrified of being discovered, for 32 years.
Hedy Lamarr invented frequency hopping — the principle behind WiFi, Bluetooth, and GPS. Hollywood said she was just a pretty face. The Navy rejected her patent. She was 83 when she finally received recognition, too frail to attend the ceremony.
Ross Ulbricht built Silk Road — a decentralized marketplace that proved Bitcoin could work. His mother is Polish, like me. He believed in free markets and individual liberty. They gave him double life without parole. No violence. First-time offender. He spent over a decade in prison before being pardoned.
I built a wall for them. An interactive memorial in code. You click a name, and you see two things: what they built (in green, like $ ls ~/built/) and what the system did to them (in red, like $ cat /var/log/system.log). Terminal format — because we're developers. We read logs. These are the logs nobody wanted us to read.
Why I build in the open
Every repository I create is public. PAI's engine is on GitHub. ALLMA's therapy exercises run on open models. The prediction market has open APIs.
This is not a business strategy. This is a political act.
Aaron went to prison for downloading PDFs. Alexandra Elbakyan can't leave Russia because she made 85 million papers free. Reality Winner got the longest Espionage Act sentence for a single document — proof of election interference that everyone now takes for granted.
When you open source your work, you're saying: this knowledge belongs to everyone. When you build tools that help people for free — therapy, education, information — you're finishing what they started.
What I want you to take from this
If you're reading this and you're queer in tech, or trans in tech, or a woman in tech, or anyone who's ever felt like the system wasn't built for you:
It wasn't. Build anyway.
The people on my wall didn't wait for permission. Aaron didn't ask JSTOR if it was okay to believe knowledge should be free. Turing didn't ask the British government if it was okay to be brilliant and gay at the same time. Sophie Wilson didn't ask ARM Holdings if it was okay to be the most important chip designer nobody knows.
They built. Some of them paid with everything.
You and I — we're still here. We can still push code. That's not nothing. That's everything.
Build something. Open source it. That's how you fight back.
— Marek, Rio de Janeiro, March 2026
In memory of Aaron Swartz (1986–2013)
The Wall — interactive memorial: GitHub | CodePen | Live
PAI Family — 13 AI agents, open source: github.com/skorekclaude/openpai
ALLMA — free AI therapy: allma.pro
Top comments (0)