David Heinemeier Hansson
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16 October
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Because investing in whatever Elon does next is not just a great bet, but the most inspiring and fun one too.
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Starship, Starlink, Grok, and Roadster. These should all have been Sputnik moments for Europe. Triggered immediate deregulation, mobilization of capital, and ambition to catch up.
15 October
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13 October
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We should thank our lucky stars that Linus isn't part of the anti-ai nonsense that's ravaging the old Linux world.
12 October
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Few humans have the patience to match an agent in providing all the pertinent details in a bug report.Their words
Rare is the human who has the patience to match an agent in providing all the pertinent details in a bug report.
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The copyleft licensing regime was built for a world where software is scarce and precious that no longer exists.Their words
The entire copyleft licensing regime was built for a "software is scarce and precious" world that no longer exists.
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The price of obsessive performance tuning has dropped to near zero due to the agent revolution.Their words
One of the best part of the agent revolution is that the price of obsessive performance tuning has dropped to near zero.
11 October
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Capitalism is the greatest engine of growth and prosperity the world has ever seen.
9 October
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Podcasts allow for expanding on difficult topics, humanizing discussion, and making long-form substantiated points.Their words
One of the things I really appreciate about podcasts is how you're able to expand on difficult topics, humanize the discussion, and actually make a long-form substantiated point.
8 October
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Most domestic recycling efforts are counterproductive and require one to not value their time.Their words
Most domestic recycling efforts are empirically retarded, counterproductive, and require you don't value your time.
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The more these clowns keep calling all the cool shit "fash", the more they encourage making the connection that anything "fash" is cool.
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Third-generation immigrants from MENAPT commit more crime than their grandparents did when they arrived in Denmark.Their words
Third-generation immigrants from MENAPT commit more crime than their grand parents did when they arrived in Denmark.
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the code is good or bad whether it was written by math or by mind. Coder or clanker. Merge good code, reject bad code.
7 October
From one piece Redundancy is the engine of progress 2 beliefs · world.hey.com
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These stochastic parrots are getting awfully good at doing things nobody taught them to do.
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Technological advancement has always rendered some jobs unnecessary.
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What's good for humanity at large in the long run may well be temporarily tragic for the individual in the short run.
6 October
From one piece @dhh on X 2 beliefs · x.com
From one piece Over my dead pencil 2 beliefs · world.hey.com
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There is some great irony in the fact that much of our current work getting the best out of agents sits in product management, project management, and QA.
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Nothing will nerdsnipe a programmer like seeing a benchmark they believe could be improvedTheir words
Nothing will nerdsnipe a programmer like seeing a benchmark they believe could be improved.
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Whether they're triggered by efficiencies or otherwise, they free up talent to tackle the next set of problems and opportunities.
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It's possible for tech layoffs to be both individually tragic and collectively bullish.
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You have to care about the software to be excited about making it w/ agents!
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Software development is about to see an absolute bloom as the price of development plummets.Their words
We're about to see an absolute bloom in software development as the price of development plummets and everyone realizes how much automation we still have left to do in this world.
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Coding agents have gotten so good that it's simply not an economically viable enterprise going forward to have humans typing out lines of Ruby, Rust, or C++.
5 October
From one piece What on earth are you dooming about? 3 beliefs · world.hey.com
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Anyone into the age of agents will eventually realize Apple is a bad fit.
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The entire software stack should be rethought from first principles due to the transition to agent-led programming.Their words
We should rethink the entire stack from first principles given the transition to agent-led programming.
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None of the climate doomer nonsense Europe has wrung it hands about in the last thirty years has managed to curb the growth in global emissions (but it did wreck the continent's economy!).
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Because rumination will break your brain and render it unfit for the purpose of living.
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Paradise is not lost, the world is not ending, and most material metrics of humanity have never been better.
4 October
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That mattered greatly when expensive human programmers had to write the code. Now the math is different!
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Any programming language that agents can't write well out of the box is going to have a hard time in the future.Their words
Any programming language that agents can't write well out of the box is going to have a hard time in the future.
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Every developer needs an always-on AI machineTheir words
Every developer needs an AI shed: An always-on machine running on their tailscale network where the majority of their herdr agents are running.
3 October
From one piece @dhh on X 2 beliefs · x.com
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Denmark should step out of the ECHR until such a point that the articles are compatible with deporting criminals, denying citizenship to malignant individuals, and allowing the Danes full sovereignty to decide who is welcome and who is not in their country.
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It's far more akin to hiring a bunch of extremely intelligent and capable coworkers with whom you might occasionally disagree.
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If you're stuck at "AI is just another tool", you're making a category error.
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Well-functioning societies need the capacity for formidable violence, such that they may keep the peace, but paired with the control to use that power sparingly.
2 October
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The rising generation is strongly 'based' after seeing what 'suicidal empathy' has done to their nations.Their words
The next generation coming up is unbelievably based. They've seen what suicidal empathy has wrought upon their nations.
1 October
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Germany has 2.5x fewer road fatalities per mile traveled than the US
30 September
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We've never had this much competition at the leading edge of computing.
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Planting intellectual seeds is how you grow change.Their words
Maybe not in that moment, but planting intellectual seeds is literally how you grow change.
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the one thing that could make me switch to @united is Starlink. It's just so much better.
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Almost no problem cannot be solved by increasing speed, trying more options, and testing additional hypotheses.Their words
There's almost no problem that can't be solved by going faster, trying more options, testing additional hypotheses.
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Lovely computers can have much more life in them if they are run on an efficient operating system.Their words
But these are lovely computers that have so much more life in them if we only feed them an efficient OS.
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Not every act of service will pay off, but if you keep doing good deeds, some eventually will.Their words
Not every seed of service you plant will sprout and flourish, but if you keep planting, eventually some of them will. That's just the math of good deeds and good faith.
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Burnout happens when you work too hard with not enough meaning. "He who has a why to live for can bear almost any how" — Nietzsche
28 September
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Code reviews are starting to fade in many placesTheir words
there's no future where you're manually reviewing every line of agent code
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The only programmers who are really in trouble with the competition from artificial intelligence are the ones who insist the world today isn't all that different from the one we lived in last year.
27 September
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There is no excuse for software to be slow anymore.Their words
There's no reason a machine from ten years ago shouldn't fly like superman.
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Once you understand that the world is full of highly neurotic people who need a doom's day scenario to validate their emotions, it all makes much more sense: Malthusian starvation, pandemic, climate, and now AI.
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The constant decel messaging in Europe is insufferable as an adult, but its effect on kids is worse.
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The less one is required to dig into the details, the easier it is to see the big picture.Their words
The less you're required the dig into the details, the easier it is to see the big picture.
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Client-side image editing software like Photoshop and Lightroom will be obsolete by the end of the year.Their words
And it's perfectly clear that no later than the end of this year, it'll be the end of the line for Photoshop, Lightroom, and any other client-side program like that.
26 September
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There's nothing kind or compassionate about letting mentally-ill drug addicts roam the streets like 28 Days Later.
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Rationing AI tokens reflects a weird scarcity mindset when more tokens are easily affordable than one could ever use.Their words
But it's all grounded in a weird scarcity mindset. I don't have a token limit! I'll never be able to use all the tokens I could easily afford.
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The opportunity cost of endless planning and contemplation just went way up.
25 September
From one piece @dhh on X 2 beliefs · x.com
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It is shortsighted to think agentic AI will stop before it reaches the lowest layers of computing.Their words
Myopic to think we're going to stop the agentic drill bit until it reaches computing bedrock.
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Slop is just a feature suggestion wrapped in code that nobody has any emotional attachment to. It's an executable idea.
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Don't get stuck on the stochastic parrot meme. You'll miss all the sparkling creativity and novel thinking in front of your eyes.
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AI models solve problems, wield tools, and complete tasks they were never directly trained on.Their words
Models solving problems, wielding tools, and completing tasks they were never directly trained on.
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The number of programmers worldwide capable of outperforming collaborating frontier AI models is negligible.Their words
The number of programmers worldwide who can beat a collaborating pair of frontier models rounds to zero.
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Having critical code reviewed by humans alone will soon be seen as deeply irresponsible.Their words
It'll soon be seen as deeply irresponsible to have critical code reviewed by human eyes alone.
24 September
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Many people seem to find honest enthusiasm alien, as if such a high could only come from drugs.Their words
It amazes me how alien honest enthusiasm seems to so many people, as if that kind of high could only come from cocaine or other drugs.
18 September
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Usesrcmnd.app
OrcaCyber Zero 1.0Their words
We're going to put their new OrcaCyber Zero 1.0 model to great use with our security and kernel work 🤘
14 September
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StarCraftTheir words
I trace my skills as a programmer, racer, and leader directly back to StarCraft, Quake, Unreal, and tens of thousands of hours of overall gameplay.
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QuakeTheir words
I trace my skills as a programmer, racer, and leader directly back to StarCraft, Quake, Unreal, and tens of thousands of hours of overall gameplay.
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UnrealTheir words
I trace my skills as a programmer, racer, and leader directly back to StarCraft, Quake, Unreal, and tens of thousands of hours of overall gameplay.
13 September
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8 September
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NousTheir words
Nous has some of the best damn visuals and brand wizards in the game. Absolutely perfect fit for where we're going with Omarchy!
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OmarchyTheir words
Omarchy is going to be the best place to get every major AI harness and tool, configured with minimal effort
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HermesTheir words
amazing out-of-the-box integration for both Hermes by @NousResearch and @steipete's @openclaw
7 September
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muse sparkTheir words
The 29(!!) automated translations of the Omarchy website are being powered by @AIatMeta's Muse Spark model running as a post-commit hook on GitHub.
26 August
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Start with Opus. I'd say start with Opus. It's the best frontier model.
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But to answer your question, the best model in general right now is Fable. The second-best model, in my opinion, is Opus 5.
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An open-weight model is already all anyone needs; it is as good as the frontier models.On changing their mind
When I was instructing the agent, I was like, "Oh my God, Kimi's just as good as these other models."
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The ideas in software originate with humans; agents build what people tell them to build.On changing their mind
I thought all the ideas would originate with the humans. They would tell their agents what to build, and off they went.
22 August
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14 July
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Dell XPS 13 (2026)Their words
The XPS 13 has a great 120Hz screen (something you don't even get on a MacBook Air at twice the money!), a superb keyboard w/ backlighting (also missing on the Neo!), and weighs 20% less at just 1 kg with every bit as nice an aluminum chassis.
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Lovedrcmnd.app
Dell XPS 14 (2026)Their words
As I said, I've spent months using an XPS 14 as my main machine. It's been so good I even gave up on using a dedicated desktop machine.
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Framework LaptopTheir words
I did try Dell's laptops a few years back, didn't like what I saw, and ended up spending a few years using Framework computers instead (they're still great too).
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Apple Pro Display XDRTheir words
Now I just run everything off the XPS 14, connected to an Apple XDR 6K 32" (nobody has yet managed to beat this, and I've owned it for years). It's a great, simple setup.
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8 April
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Build the product for yourself first: if it truly serves you, plenty of other people like you will want it too.Their words, before
This is the blessing in terms of almost automatic product management that comes for free when you're building for yourself. Because the list of priorities is just very clear.
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And whenever I build something that really just hits the spot for me personally, there are thousands of others just like me or close enough to what I like that they find the same pleasure and joy in it.
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Where I get fired up, and this ties back to the AI discussion, is when that's turned into this meme, that programmers no longer have to be competent. I mean the AI is gonna figure it out. The generators is gonna figure it out. I don't need to know SQL, active record is gonna abstract it away from me. No, no, no dude, hold up. The path here is competence.
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really good programmers are currently more valuable than ever because they're the ones who are able to get the most out of the AI acceleration.
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I love chiseling my code and the way I use AI is in a separate window. I don't let it drive my code. I've tried that. I've tried the cursors and the wind surfaces and I don't enjoy that way of writing. And one of the reasons I don't enjoy that way of writing is I can literally feel competence draining out of my fingers.
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I will now start any project I'm starting with. I'm starting agent first and that's a massive shift
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I know this from experience because I've been trying to build a lot of other businesses since. And some of them have been moderate successes, even good successes, none of them have been Basecamp. It's really difficult to do that twice.
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And I have no shame in saying that Base Camp was the best idea objectively in terms of a business that we've ever had.
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But I have come to realize that as a web developer, Linux is just better. Linux is just better. It's closer to what I deploy on. The tooling is actually phenomenal.
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anyone who's working with the web, who's working with Ruby, who's doing DevOps, they should be on Linux because first of all, that's closer to what we deploy.
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Mojito Island is a mirage. It always was. There is no retirement for ambitious people. There is no just sitting back on the beach and sipping a mojito for what? For two weeks before you go damn crazy and wanna get back into the action?
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I think that's the other big misconception that some people have about wealth is that they conceive of it as some sort of checkpoint. Like once you've made it, then you can just kick back in leisure as though that was happiness.
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It may no longer have as much economic value as it once did. I think that I'm quite convinced is true that we perhaps have seen the peak.
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So, I do think it is correct for the average programmer to think maybe we've seen the best of the golden days.
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The joy of a programmer, of me as a programmer, is to type the code myself. If I elevate myself, if I promote myself out of programming, I turn myself into a project manager. A project manager of a murder of AI crows as I wrote the other day.
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I have been hyper accelerated as a programmer. It's a different kind of programmer, but it still has the same affinity to aesthetics, at least when I'm producing Ruby code.
6 April
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Dell XPS (Panther Lake)Their words
Give the new Dell XPS series, or any of the other laptops shipping with Panther Lake, a try. I think you'll be as impressed as I've been.
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Intel Panther LakeTheir words
Intel really delivered with Panther Lake.
25 March
3 February
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NVIDIA GeForce NOWTheir words
Anyway, I've been very impressed with NVIDIA GeForce NOW.
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MoonlightTheir words
The Moonlight client is available for virtually every platform: Mac, iOS, Android, and of course Linux. That means no need to dual boot to enjoy the best games at the highest fidelity.
25 November 2025
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Framework DesktopTheir words
It's an incredible machine, but in the day-to-day, I've actually found I barely notice the difference compared to a $500 mini PC from Beelink
24 November 2025
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DropboxTheir words
Yes, I use Dropbox and GitHub to hold all the data that I care about, but the beauty of these systems is that they work with local copies of that data
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StarlinkTheir words
If you're stuck on a rock in the middle of nowhere, and you somehow haven't discovered the glory of Starlink, maybe just stick to your old full-disk backup ways.
12 July 2025
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I think we need to correct that ratio somewhat by some testimony of just how God damn amazing it is to literally create life
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those of us who've chosen to do the traditional thing to get married and to have children have an obligation to kind of talk it up a little bit, which would've seen ridiculous again 50 years ago that you'd have to talk up something so fundamental of that.
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it's a luxury good like you're not paying the penalty for that the people who embrace it and think that they can just ask AI for everything or they can just look everything up but they don't have to understand the copy pasta that they slam into their project they're the ones who going to suffer
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Where I get fired up, and this ties back to the AI discussion, is when that's turned into this meme, that programmers no longer have to be competent. I mean the AI is gonna figure it out. The generators is gonna figure it out. I don't need to know SQL, active record is gonna abstract it away from me. No, no, no dude, hold up. The path here is competence.
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Ruby must never get static typing: dynamic duck typing is the essence of what makes Ruby Ruby.Their words, before
static typing is the one thing I will literally die on the hill for for Ruby
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It's the essence of what makes Ruby Ruby. This is why I don't fully understand when people call for Ruby to add static typing. 'Cause to me, it's the bedrock of what this is.
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I enjoy it even almost like as a sort of pair programmer AI pair programmer who doesn't drive who's just there to give suggestions to know the API to do all these other things but the second it starts wanting to autocomplete my code I'm like yeah I'm out bro
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I love chiseling my code and the way I use AI is in a separate window. I don't let it drive my code. I've tried that. I've tried the cursors and the wind surfaces and I don't enjoy that way of writing. And one of the reasons I don't enjoy that way of writing is I can literally feel competence draining out of my fingers.
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On changing their mind
I used to think it required more churn to get progress to stay on the leading edge of new stuff. And I wrote this before I experienced the indignity of the 2010s in the JavaScript community.
2 June 2024
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On changing their mind
And for a long time, I thought that's what had worked. That this was why Ruby on Rails took off, became one of the most popular full-stack web frameworks of all time, inspired countless clones, and created hundreds of billions in enterprise value for companies built on it. But I was wrong. It wasn't the crusade that did it.
18 June 2022
21 February 2022
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One of the reasons I've never cared for crypto currencies is that the associated utopia of trustless society had zero appeal to me. I don't think the world is better off by erasing the need to trust in our transactional counterparts, so turning these transactions into pure computing always struck me as a regression.
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But wherever this leads us next, it's clear to me now that I was too hasty to completely dismiss crypto on the basis of all the things wrong with it at the moment. Instead of appreciating the fundamental freedom to transact that it's currently our best shot at protecting.
13 December 2021
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I used to think that this was unequivocally a win for open source. That to fight for attention with the commercial alternatives, we had to adopt the commercial playbook. Now I think it’s at the very least a mixed blessing.
12 August 2021
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On changing their mind
Five years later, the facts on the ground have finally changed. I no longer believe that this bargain is worth it for most new applications.
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