David Heinemeier Hansson
Creator of Ruby on Rails, CTO of 37signals, and creator of Omarchy.
David Heinemeier Hansson did not write this page.
We collected these quotes from things they published elsewhere, and every quote links to where it was said. They have no account here and have not endorsed this site. Quotes are word for word; the short line under each one is our own restatement, not their wording. Their own site. Is this you? Claim it or ask us to remove it. Or tell us what is wrong here.
-
Believed beforeby their own account
Our reading
The ideas in software originate with humans; agents build what people tell them to build.
Their words, looking backI thought all the ideas would originate with the humans. They would tell their agents what to build, and off they went.
Nowsaid
Our readingNo longer believes this.
Their wordsI don't think that's true anymore at all.
-
Believed beforeby their own account
Their words, looking backWhen I was instructing the agent, I was like, "Oh my God, Kimi's just as good as these other models."
Nowsaid
Our readingNo longer believes this.
Their wordsBut I've been wrong about this before.
-
· held 5 months
Believed beforesaid
Their words thenStart with Opus. I'd say start with Opus. It's the best frontier model.
Nowsaid
Our readingNo longer believes this.
Their wordsIt seems to be changing constantly.
- 5 months earlier
-
· held 9 months
Believed beforesaid
Their words thenI 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.
Nowsaid
Our readingNo longer believes this.
Their wordsWhat I failed to realize at the time was that running a bunch of agents feels less like being a project manager for agents and more like stepping into this super mech suit where suddenly I don't just have two arms.
-
· held 9 months
Believed beforesaid
Their words thenThe 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.
Nowsaid
Our readingNo longer believes this.
Their wordsthat's the biggest revelation actually more than even the capacity of the agents is my enjoyment running them.
- 9 months earlier
-
Believed beforeby their own account
Their words, looking backI 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.
Nowsaid
Our readingNo longer believes this.
Their wordsAnd if I was gonna write the doctrine today, I'd write that differently. I wouldn't say progress over stability.
- 13 months earlier
-
Believed beforeby their own account
Nowsaid
Our readingNo longer believes this.
Their wordsAnd 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.
- 2 years earlier
-
· held 11 months
Believed beforesaid
Their words thenOne 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.
Nowsaid
Our readingNo longer believes this.
Their wordsBut 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.
- 2 months earlier
-
Believed beforeby their own account
Nowsaid
Our readingNo longer believes this.
Their wordsI 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.
- 4 months earlier
-
Believed beforeby their own account
Nowsaid
Our readingNo longer believes this.
Their wordsFive years later, the facts on the ground have finally changed. I no longer believe that this bargain is worth it for most new applications.
↗Modern web apps without JavaScript bundling or transpilingworld.hey.com