February 7, 2026

Software Deployment - A Paradigm Shift

I see a paradigm major shift coming in how you deploy software.

Software is beautiful. You've always been able to build your own software, but now its easier than ever.

Tools like NixOS & Ansible (I'm partial to Nix) allow you to define software deployments with code. Turns out, new models are incredible with Nix. You can define systems and deployments with it.

Instead of clicking through a web-ui and configuring it, you should be able to push code to a repo and have it automatically deployed to a server. I'm not speaking in the sense of configuring Vercel or some other provider. That has friction. Honestly I'd rather host on my own hardware (locally or bare-metal cloud) than pay someone for rent-seeking.

In the same way you can use opencode or claude-code to push software, they can be used to deploy software in plain English.

It turns out the moat was always in hardware, design, and creativity; not in software.

This is inline with my belief in that to truly be free you have to run your own hardware. Thanks @dhh and @realGeorgeHotz.