David Heinemeier Hansson
Creator of Ruby on Rails, CTO of 37signals, and creator of Omarchy.
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Their wordsBecause investing in whatever Elon does next is not just a great bet, but the most inspiring and fun one too.
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Their wordsStarship, Starlink, Grok, and Roadster. These should all have been Sputnik moments for Europe. Triggered immediate deregulation, mobilization of capital, and ambition to catch up.
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Their wordsWe should thank our lucky stars that Linus isn't part of the anti-ai nonsense that's ravaging the old Linux world.
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Their wordsThe entire copyleft licensing regime was built for a "software is scarce and precious" world that no longer exists.
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Their wordsRare is the human who has the patience to match an agent in providing all the pertinent details in a bug report.
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The price of obsessive performance tuning has dropped to near zero due to the agent revolution.
Their wordsOne of the best part of the agent revolution is that the price of obsessive performance tuning has dropped to near zero.
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Their wordsCapitalism is the greatest engine of growth and prosperity the world has ever seen.
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Their wordsOne of the things I really appreciate about podcasts is how you're able to expand on difficult topics, humanize the discussion, and actually make a long-form substantiated point.
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Their wordsThird-generation immigrants from MENAPT commit more crime than their grand parents did when they arrived in Denmark.
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Most domestic recycling efforts are counterproductive and require one to not value their time.
Their wordsMost domestic recycling efforts are empirically retarded, counterproductive, and require you don't value your time.
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Their wordsThe more these clowns keep calling all the cool shit "fash", the more they encourage making the connection that anything "fash" is cool.
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Their wordsthe code is good or bad whether it was written by math or by mind. Coder or clanker. Merge good code, reject bad code.
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Their wordsWhat's good for humanity at large in the long run may well be temporarily tragic for the individual in the short run.
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Their wordsTechnological advancement has always rendered some jobs unnecessary.
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Their wordsThese stochastic parrots are getting awfully good at doing things nobody taught them to do.
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Nothing will nerdsnipe a programmer like seeing a benchmark they believe could be improved
Their wordsNothing will nerdsnipe a programmer like seeing a benchmark they believe could be improved.
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Their wordsCoding agents have gotten so good that it's simply not an economically viable enterprise going forward to have humans typing out lines of Ruby, Rust, or C++.
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Their wordsWhether they're triggered by efficiencies or otherwise, they free up talent to tackle the next set of problems and opportunities.
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Software development is about to see an absolute bloom as the price of development plummets.
Their wordsWe're about to see an absolute bloom in software development as the price of development plummets and everyone realizes how much automation we still have left to do in this world.
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Their wordsYou have to care about the software to be excited about making it w/ agents!
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Their wordsThere is some great irony in the fact that much of our current work getting the best out of agents sits in product management, project management, and QA.
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Their wordsIt's possible for tech layoffs to be both individually tragic and collectively bullish.
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Their wordsBecause rumination will break your brain and render it unfit for the purpose of living.
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Their wordsWe should rethink the entire stack from first principles given the transition to agent-led programming.
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Their wordsNone of the climate doomer nonsense Europe has wrung it hands about in the last thirty years has managed to curb the growth in global emissions (but it did wreck the continent's economy!).
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Their wordsAnyone into the age of agents will eventually realize Apple is a bad fit.
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Their wordsParadise is not lost, the world is not ending, and most material metrics of humanity have never been better.
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Their wordsThat mattered greatly when expensive human programmers had to write the code. Now the math is different!
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Their wordsAny programming language that agents can't write well out of the box is going to have a hard time in the future.
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Their wordsEvery developer needs an AI shed: An always-on machine running on their tailscale network where the majority of their herdr agents are running.