What David Heinemeier Hansson thinks about self-driving cars
Creator of Ruby on Rails, CTO of 37signals, and creator of Omarchy.
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4 dated positions, 2022 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 wordsNow one way it could map out is that the agents will get so good that they stop making mistakes. They become senior in their capacity to ship working code. This is what my bet would be if we look x amount of time forward because this is what just happened with cars.
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- 2 months earlier
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Their wordsit'd be a world where agents, like self-driving cars, don't need special equipment, like LIDAR or MCPs, to interact with the environment
- 7 months earlier
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Their wordsElon, that son of a bitch, seems to have done it again! Proven everyone wrong. Proven me wrong. The self-driving dream has flipped from vaporware to credible near-term reality.
- 3 years earlier
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Our readingAgents might, like self-driving cars, not need special equipment to interact with the environment
Their wordsClarity isn't a feature when explaining bad numbers to an impatient market
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