How Fast Can AI Agents Add an Omarchy Feature?

David Heinemeier Hansson started Omarchy last summer, between sessions at the 24 Hours of Le Mans, after too many videos about Linux got him bitten by the bug. An earlier attempt sat on Ubuntu and was fine. Omarchy started seven layers deeper in the stack, so the ambition was different, and he still wrote the early bash scripts by hand. A couple of versions had partial agent acceleration. Three months ago it went full throttle, at 100 percent. Agents write everything. He steers.

He can look at a feature in Windows, on the Mac, or on another Linux system, say he wants it, and the agents deliver. Most features arrive in five minutes, a few in 20, and a wild one takes two hours. The rush is strong enough that he compares it to a genie and to the pull in Requiem for a Dream, and the multitasking has put him near burnout. A single mission keeps it from turning into dread: building the computer he actually wants. The link between an idea and software on the screen went from dial-up to fiber.