David Heinemeier Hansson

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

David Heinemeier Hansson’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

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Humanoid robots.

Yeah.

Which just happens to be the plot of every sci-fi movie ever.

Which is also an amazing premonition.

Not only the Terminator movies and Skynet and that going wrong, but then also just Blade Runner, right?

Insertion dates, expiration times, Tyrell Corporation.

I set up OpenClaw when it first came out and that was my kef bot

This was like in February, I think.

I I was really just enamored by the fact that this was how it worked.

And then the new communication model of of just texting your agents seemed really great.

So at the time we were looking at MCP, this protocol for making it easier for agents to talk to your system, and I found the protocol to be

Unreasonably cumbersome.

Just not very elegantly designed because in part it wasn't designed for what we were trying to make it do.

We were trying to I was trying to make it talk to a web system.

And it was designed for stateful interactions of other kinds on local machines.

And therefore it required all sorts of cumbersome setup and dance and and I was just like, I don't wanna write this by hand.

Now, of course, today I would never write it by hand.

But at the time I was thinking, I have to write this by hand.

I don't want to write it by hand.

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