ai-skeptics 2026-09-26

The issue with DHH views (well, regardless this specific thing - there are A LOT of problems with most of his views on basically everything society-related) and, quite honestly, with the other AI freaks users that went down the rabbit hole, is how they deny themselves (BTW - very common on AI, it seems that the thing fries our brain and causes a lot of psychological problems) all the time. Robert Martin wrote a full book saying that "code is very important", dedicated his life to publish this idea of "clean code", to say "well, actually, I don't bother reading code anymore". DHH wrote a whole online book about work - learn to say "no", don't add features that you won't need, avoid complexity, subtract code... but now, in his "AI High", is the opposite. The same can be said for the "look for all the code I don't have to write". I've seen this quoted again and again, but this was said at a time when Java frameworks where very popular. All the code not written was "No boilerplate, no XML mapping database to a class, no weird annotations", things like that - meaning, we literally didn't HAVE to write, not "SOMETHING ELSE" will write it for us

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@mauricio.szabo I like your take on code you actually don't have to write versus someone else is writing it. Because simplicity, ergonomics and highly composable code is still something models struggle with most.