David Heinemeier Hansson

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5,915 appearances 4 recordings 4 series first heard Aug 2025 last heard 26 Aug

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If you look at the way a lot of the Linux communities, open source communities, have reacted to AI, it is not universal love.

I would argue that the majority of them are actually, if not skeptical, then outright hostile to AI.

Now, the saving grace is that

The PDFL himself, Linus Torvalds, just wrote a few weeks ago that he actually welcomes AI.

He wants to steer it, he wants to make sure it's good and whatever.

But I uh the line was something if you think uh uh Linux is an anti AI project.

think again and you should just do the open source thing and fork it because we're gonna use AI.

And you see these graphs of the number of AI contributions going into the kernel and it's a parabolic curve.

Linux is leaning hard into this and no

It actually in s in in other ways it was surprising that it didn't.

Linux covered everything else.

All the AI infrastructure that everyone runs off, it's all running on Linux.

All the systems, all the servers, everything is Linux.

So it was kind of a curiosity that the desktop and

The personal computers we were using really hadn't been captured, but clearly it was just waiting for this moment.

Linux spent the time from ninety one to now waiting for agents to fully flourish as an end user operating system.

I think it's hard to people to switch when there's not a compelling reason to do so.

This was one of the driving design

goals for Machi.

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