Let the agents democratize open source

Short summary

DHH defends AI agents as fulfilling open source's founding mission of universal code access against growing project restrictions. He frames anti-agent gatekeeping as status anxiety and privilege protection—not legitimate quality, attribution, or worker concerns. Democratizing development through AI represents progress toward broader computing freedoms, and rejecting it perpetuates exclusionary professional hierarchies.

• •AI agents fulfill open source's universal access mission despite project gatekeeping
• •Anti-agent restrictions reflect privilege protection, not quality concerns
• •Democratizing programming through agents represents progress toward broader freedoms

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