What About Rails?
7 hours ago
- DHH declared himself a 'maker' rather than a programmer and advocates for LLM-generated code over hand-written code.
- He announced that Hey, a flagship Rails app, is being rebuilt with Rust and native apps, moving away from Rails.
- His Ruby coding output dropped to 3% in 2024, while he claimed to generate 150k lines of code per month via LLMs.
- He argues that hand-written code will soon be obsolete for most programmers and companies.
- Critics note his keynote lacked concrete vision for Rails, instead offering flattery and vague optimism.
- His claims about 10x productivity gains and historical ATM analogy were factually flawed and unsupported.
- Security and architecture degradation concerns were raised, including his own admission of 'Swiss cheese' architecture in Basecamp 5.
- The talk left Rails developers uncertain about the framework's future direction.