It is no longer an economically viable enterprise to have humans typing out lines of Ruby, Rust, or C++ because coding agents have become so good.

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• For a web developer Linux is simply better than the Mac: closer to what you deploy on, with phenomenal tooling and a reproducible setup. DHDavid Heinemeier Hansson12 Jul 2025Ruby
• Rails is having a renaissance because it is one of the most token-efficient ways to build a web app, which suits agents, for as long as that lasts. DHDavid Heinemeier Hansson8 Apr 2026Ruby
• Ruby is a luxury language, the Coco Chanel of programming, and 99% of web applications can afford it because their real cost is people, not CPU. DHDavid Heinemeier Hansson12 Jul 2025Ruby
• Ruby is probably his forever language, and he still tries new languages to widen the aperture. DHDavid Heinemeier Hansson1 Jul 2025Ruby
• Ruby must never get static typing: dynamic duck typing is the essence of what makes Ruby Ruby. DHDavid Heinemeier Hansson18 Sept 2024Ruby

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