dhh's Tech Summit speech on AI and Omarchy: 'I'm morally obligated to deliver antidotes to despair'
zealcaiden · x · 2026-10-23
Ruby creator and 37signals founder DHH gave a speech at /// Tech Summit about AI, his Omarchy project, and an optimistic future. Amplifying the clip, he wrote that he feels morally obligated to deliver as many antidotes to despair and cynicism as possible: "The odds of p(bloom) are so overwhelmingly high. Can't lose good people to the black pill."
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