DHH: I've written half as much code in 20 months as in the prior 21 years
rohanpaul_ai · x · 2026-09-27
Ruby on Rails creator DHH discusses AI and developer productivity, saying the old 10x programmer debate may now be a 100x or 1,000x debate. His own datapoint: in the past 20 months he has written half as much code as he did in the previous 21 years — less code, same output, thanks to AI.
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