DHH: hand-writing code is no longer economically productive for most programmers
AccBalanced · x · 2026-09-27
DHH argues that hand-writing code is no longer economically productive for the vast majority of programmers and companies today — and that by year's end this will extend to virtually all domains. He urges developers to embrace the shift toward a new career: steering AI intelligence to build things rather than chiseling code by hand.
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