David Heinemeier Hansson
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Nov 3, 2026
Justin JacksonHOST
I think that the...
Justin JacksonHOST
Even DHH has this tweet here.
Justin JacksonHOST
I don't often quote DHH, but I'll do it right now.
Justin JacksonHOST
The age of agents is going to be amazing for most programmers, but it'll be hard times for the cantankerous ones and replace programmers with anything.
Justin JacksonHOST
Cantankerous designers, cantankerous managers, cantankerous product managers, project managers... specialized knowledge and rare skills will no longer offer immunity for those who are paying to work with best learn some basic people skills.
Rob CampbellHOST
I'm still not sure about Umachi being visually appealing out of the box, but you can do some tweaks to it.
Rob CampbellHOST
For those unfamiliar, Umachi is an opinionated, pre-configured Arch Linux desktop created by David Heinemeyer Hansen, or DHH as many people call him, featuring the Hyperline Wayland Compositor.
Rob CampbellHOST
Damon Archie takes the free desktop experience and replaces Arch Linux underneath with FreeBSD.
Rob CampbellHOST
An interesting twist, Hubbard used OpenAI's ChatGPT AI tools to help create it, of course, and the initial implementation taking less than two hours.
Rob CampbellHOST
I'm still not sure about Umachi being visually appealing out of the box, but you can do some tweaks to it.
Rob CampbellHOST
For those unfamiliar, Umachi is an opinionated, pre-configured Arch Linux desktop created by David Heinemeyer Hansen, or DHH as many people call him,
Leo LaporteADVERTISER
featuring
Rob CampbellHOST
the Hyperline Wayland Compositor.
Rob CampbellHOST
I'm still not sure about Umachi being visually appealing out of the box, but, you know, you can do some tweaks to it.
Rob CampbellHOST
For those unfamiliar, Umachi is an opinionated, pre-configured Arch Linux desktop created by David Heinemeier Hansen, or DHH as many people call him, featuring the Hyperline Wayland Compositor.
Rob CampbellHOST
Damon Archie takes the free desktop experience and replaces Arch Linux underneath with FreeBSD.
Rob CampbellHOST
An interesting twist, Hubbard used OpenAI's ChatGPT AI tools to help create it, of course, and the initial implementation taking less than two hours.
Leo LaporteADVERTISER
with AI helping developers port
Rob CampbellHOST
increasingly complex software, perhaps we'll see more Linux desktop environments making their way to BSD and Linux.
Rob CampbellHOST
Maybe since Damon Archie won't have the same stigma or divisive leadership that Umachi has, you know, DHH, a lot of people hate Umachi just because of him.
Rob CampbellHOST
You know, maybe since this doesn't have DHH behind it, you won't see all the hate that Umachi has.
Rob CampbellHOST
I'm still not sure about Umachi being visually appealing out of the box, but, you know, you can do some tweaks to it.
Rob CampbellHOST
For those unfamiliar, Umachi is an opinionated, pre-configured Arch Linux desktop created by David Heinemeier Hansen, or DHH as many people call him, featuring the Hyperline Wayland Compositor.
Rob CampbellHOST
Damon Archie takes the free desktop experience and replaces Arch Linux underneath with FreeBSD.
Rob CampbellHOST
An interesting twist, Hubbard used OpenAI's ChatGPT AI tools to help create it, of course, and the initial implementation taking less than two hours.
Leo LaporteADVERTISER
with AI helping developers port
Rob CampbellHOST
increasingly complex software, perhaps we'll see more Linux desktop environments making their way to BSD and Linux.
Rob CampbellHOST
Maybe since Damon Archie won't have the same stigma or divisive leadership that Umachi has, you know, DHH, a lot of people hate Umachi just because of him.
Rob CampbellHOST
You know, maybe since this doesn't have DHH behind it, you won't see all the hate that Umachi has.
B. Donald HarrisHOST
Yeah, because that compute cost can bloom pretty fast.
Samuel ObukweluGUEST
I mean, have you read the article by DHH? The guy who's, he's one of the owners of 37 Signals, where he talks about the amount of money that they saved getting off AWS.
Samuel ObukweluGUEST
They were saving like well over a hundred, over a million dollars a year, a year in bringing their stuff back in house.
Samuel ObukweluGUEST
Wow.
Dan MangesGUEST
And sometimes you talk about taking a 15-minute run down to a five-minute run and maybe on the surface, that doesn't sound that impactful, but that's like four iterations per hour versus 12 iterations per hour, which is a pretty meaningful difference.
Dan MangesGUEST
And yeah, I do appreciate DHH's, I think, ability to innovate and be contrarian.
Dan MangesGUEST
find new ways of doing things.
Dan MangesGUEST
And I think he's certainly right that now local chips are so fast that they're faster than server-based infrastructure.
MajidHOST
So why did I choose this? Well, I mean, it's the newest hotness, isn't it? Every Tom, Dick, and Abdullah is talking about, you know, Omachi.
MajidHOST
For people who don't know, it is a distro made by the programmer extraordinaire, software developer, Giza called DHH, made Ruby, Rails, Hay, a couple of other things.
MajidHOST
I had heard him on a couple of podcasts.
MajidHOST
Lex Friedman, he had two podcasts with Lex Friedman, which, by the way, totaled eight hours.
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MajidHOST
I'm not using AI to write code, generally.
MajidHOST
I'm just, as I said, a slightly technical odd doctor from the middle of the UK.
MajidHOST
And then, as I said, the close association with DHH and its politics, it just stopped me from getting fully on board.
MajidHOST
I'd rather use something that's more focused on software than its creator and its agenda.
Adam ScalinaHOST
And I guess the next person that had my car...
Adam ScalinaHOST
Was a big fan of DHH.
Adam ScalinaHOST
You familiar with DHH?
Matt ScalenaHOST
I'm not familiar with DHH.
Adam ScalinaHOST
Okay, so DHH is Desi Hip Hop.
Adam ScalinaHOST
I thought
Matt ScalenaHOST
it was a guy.
Steve EndowHOST
I finally pulled a machine out of the stack and installed Omachi on it.
Steve EndowHOST
Omachi, Omachi, as DHH calls it, Omachi.
Steve EndowHOST
So I installed Omachi Linux.
Steve EndowHOST
This is a, I don't know, eight-year-old i7 ThinkCenter tiny PC.
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