DHH Says Furious Rails World Comments Show Programmers in the Anger Stage of AI Grief
nptacek · x · 2026-09-28
Ruby creator DHH argued the YouTube comments on his Rails World keynote perfectly capture the anger stage of grief: programmers lashing out at an AI-driven change they privately know is inevitable. Reposting, timsoret quipped that DHH's smarts show in jumping straight from denial to acceptance, skipping every intermediate stage at once.
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