dhh: agents' great gift is routing around every gatekeeper in software — Stack Overflow proved it
IgorCarron · x · 2026-11-02
Ruby on Rails creator dhh argues that the great gift of AI agents is how they let developers route around every insufferable gatekeeper in software. A replier adds that Stack Overflow's decline is exactly this dynamic in action — once-indispensable community gatekeepers now bypassed by agents. A notable take on how agents reshape developers' information access and power structures.
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