Rails Creator DHH: 'Pencils Down' on Handwritten Code — SkimNews
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- DHH (Ruby on Rails creator) declared "pencils down" on handwritten code, embracing AI-generated code for his new project, which is written in Rust rather than Ruby
- DHH conceded AI coding agents struggled at Basecamp even as they built all of Omarchy — a nuance largely absent from headlines focused solely on his AI embrace
Why it matters: DHH's declaration carries outsized influence as one of web development's most prominent voices publicly abandoning hand-coding, but his own admission that AI agents stumbled on Basecamp tempers the broader narrative — showing AI coding tools perform inconsistently across existing versus greenfield codebases.
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