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I grew up hacking on and building with early open source software - Linux, Apache, GCC. For me, a big part of the culture of open source was people making their software their own.

I have been thinking about open source in the age of coding agents. There is one world where many open source projects become less important because we all independently recreate the functionality with coding agents.

Is there another where open source platforms create an ecosystem with their harness and agentic hackability, like OpenClaw has done? If an open source database or content management system shipped with an exceptional agent harness that made easy to extend and improve with agents, would that make individual developers more inclined to start there rather than start from scratch? Likewise, in the spirit of the hacker culture I grew up with, will power users like me start to seek out systems that are designed to be hackable with agents?

I’d love a desktop operating system that was more hackable by casual users like me - not just the gratuitous window dressing of the early Linux desktop movement, but set of composable graphics and OS abstractions designed to be composed, mutated, and rearranged by an agent.

After 25+ years, maybe this really is the year of Linux on the desktop 😏