DHH's Rails World keynote: agentic coding kills web frameworks, apps need CLIs for agents
IgorCarron · x · 2026-09-24
wintermeyer highlights DHH's instantly-classic Rails World 2026 keynote:
- Web apps are dead — it's now cheap, easy, and fast to build native apps with agentic coding
- Frameworks like Ruby on Rails are unnecessary when Rust on the backend achieves the same functionality while cutting server count and boosting speed
- Every application needs a CLI, because agents love command-line tools
The poster's comment "And they fall..." hints at the disruption agentic coding poses to Rails and web frameworks — a debate about framework value in the agent era.
Related event: DHH Tells Rails World: Accept That It's Over for Web Frameworks(2 posts)→
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