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by David Heinemeier Hansson
The malleable computer
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