dhh: China's Programmers' Day shows why its engineering culture wins at AI
prasanna_says · x · 2026-10-24
Reacting to China's Oct 24 Programmers' Day (1024 = 2¹⁰), dhh praised the country's unbelievable focus on engineering, noting many top Chinese companies are run by engineers — which is why they absorb AI and Omarchy so quickly. "The West could do with fewer MBAs at the top!" A commenter donated $1,024 to Omacom and suggested the holiday should become Makers' Day in the agent era: anyone building real things with code and AI, not just coders.
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