David Heinemeier Hansson on REWORK
Bring your AI agents to Basecamp
Worth hearing for a concrete product announcement: David explains how agent access changes Basecamp from a source of information into a place where AI can organize and assign real work. The broader enthusiasm for coding agents overlaps heavily with other appearances, but the Basecamp implementation, development figures, and HEY/Fizzy roadmap are fresh.
This is one of those AI inception moments where like, we're trying to make Basecamp more accessible to the agents and we're making the CLI and the agent is actually making the bulk of the CLI. The vast majority of the code that goes into this CLI was written by an agent and it got like 65% of that done in no time at all. And then we spend weeks and weeks and weeks and weeks getting it to, if not 100%, then 97%. (14:36): Now we can take all of those lessons.
David Heinemeier Hansson explains why 37signals is making Basecamp accessible to AI agents through a fast command-line interface rather than relying only on browser interaction. He also describes a broader plan to connect Basecamp, Fizzy, and HEY while avoiding AI features that feel bolted onto the products.