What David Heinemeier Hansson thinks about AI and human skill
Creator of Ruby on Rails, CTO of 37signals, and creator of Omarchy.
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2 dated positions, 2025 to 2026, in their own words. Our reading of what David Heinemeier Hansson has said — not written or endorsed by them.
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Their wordsThe number of programmers worldwide who can beat a collaborating pair of frontier models rounds to zero.
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Their wordsThe Anthropic CEO seems to think that 90% of all code by the end of the year is gonna be written by AI. I am more than a little bit skeptical about that, but I'm open-minded about the prospect that programming potentially will turn into a horse when done manually.
↗DHH: Future of Programming, AI, Ruby on Rails, Productivity & Parenting | Lex Fridman Podcast #474youtube.com 11th of 36 in this recording
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