DHH: With a Thousand Agents in One Codebase, Abstractions Need Repricing

At Rails World 2026, DHH argued that with a thousand agents working on one codebase, traditional abstractions like DRY and layering are failing and need repricing. He proposed new rules for the AI agent era: judge results, not code, and give agents outcomes rather than processes.

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