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Home-Cooked Software and Barefoot Developers


The emerging golden age of home-cooked software, barefoot developers, and why the local-first community should help build it

For the last ~year I've been keeping a close eye on how language models capabilities meaningfully change the speed, ease, and accessibility of software development. The slightly bold theory I put forward in this talk is that we're on a verge of a golden age of local, home-cooked software and a new kind of developer – what I've called the barefoot developer. The video recording will be up here in a few weeks, but until then, here's the transcript and slides.

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