Our readingWhat is a korrent?
Drawn from what David Heinemeier Hansson said
vibe coding Building software by describing what you want and accepting what comes back, without reading much of it.
Ruby The language itself rather than the framework: duck typing, Matz, and whether it should ever get static types.
The language now is English. It's a cliche, but it's also true. Like I've been programming in English for the last three months. I've been reading a lot of code, but I'm programming in English. I'm telling the computer what to do, and I'm using natural language, and it is shockingly even more delightful. If there is one programming language more beautiful than Ruby, it is the English language.
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Do you hold this korrent?Do you also believe this?
I hold this tooIn tension with
Hansson says the programming language is now English and a more beautiful one than Ruby. Ptacek says the part of a coding agent that actually acts on code is not AI at all — it is simple systems code wired to ground truth, the way a Makefile is. One is naming the interface as the language; the other is pointing at the part that does the work and noting it is not language at all.
Shared subject first, then similar wording. They may agree or disagree.