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by David Heinemeier Hansson
Let the agents democratize open source
The open source movement spent decades fighting for everyone's right to change software, through free access to code and permissive licenses to release improvements. But at the dawn of the AI revolution, as this mission is finally being broadly fulfilled, it's clear that "everyone" never actually meant everyone to some.
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~2 minutes (2K characters)
Release date
Jun 1, 2026