David Heinemeier Hansson has made a name for himself as one of the tech industry's more prominent iconoclasts and industry critics. The Danish programmer is a successful entrepreneur who has testified before Congress to argue that Big Tech firms should be more regulated and started an anti-Facebook campaign. He is chief technology officer of BaseCamp, which makes workplace collaboration software, and is also the creator of a widely used software development framework called Ruby on Rails.

Hansson spoke with The Associated Press to discuss remote work in the age of the pandemic and why Big Tech...