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Customising an operating system by asking an agent replaces esoteric config syntax as the way customisation actually works.

Drawn from what Tobias Lütke said

Subjectcoding agents

In the views onOmarchyunder our view: Once an agent can rewrite the system, the config file stops being a barrier and becomes the point

What Tobias Lütke actually said

Tobias Lütke 18 Aug 2026, 20:30 UTC Co-founder and CEO of Shopify

Now you can have a quake style console in your operating system. Except with an infinitely patient agent to help you customize it instead of esoteric variable names and slash commands like in the 90s

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18 Aug 2026

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Chatbot interfaces are the wrong tool for meaningful coding work, because you are mostly hoping the model recalls the right answer and correcting it requires a human in the loop.

Customising a system by asking an agent for it is precisely the chat-shaped interface Hashimoto argues is the wrong tool once the work becomes meaningful.

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