DHH has gone completely off the rails...
DHH declared hand-writing source code economically unviable, endorsing AI-generated code at Rails World 2026
“It is your obligation to deliver those CLIs by next Friday. So I can use your application without actually ever having to touch it.”
DHH used his Rails World 2026 keynote to argue that writing source code by hand is no longer economically viable, pivoting to advocate for AI-generated Rust — a dramatic reversal from a figure whose entire brand was built on programmer happiness and craft. He also reframed CLIs as infrastructure for AI agents rather than human developers, signaling a broader shift in how tooling should be designed. The moment is notable as a bellwether: when a craft-first icon publicly capitulates to AI-generated code, it accelerates mainstream legitimacy of the vibe-coding paradigm.