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The malleable computer

by David Heinemeier Hansson

Apr 15, 2026·~1 minutes·1 chapter

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The malleable computer

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Open source promised that users would be free to change whatever code they were running. The reality, however, is that hardly any of them ever did — it was simply too hard. Now, with AI, it suddenly isn't.

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~1 minutes (1K characters)

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Apr 15, 2026