The Pulse: RoR creator sparks new “death of coding by hand” debate
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In his Rails World keynote, David Heinemeier Hansson (DHH) declared the end for writing code by hand for professional work – at 37signals at least. Is this change now unstoppable?

The creator of Ruby on Rails, David Heinemeier Hansson, caused quite a stir last week with comments in his Rails World keynote, when he revealed that coding by hand is dead at his company, 37signals.

  • codeinabox@programming.devOPEnglish
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    1 day ago

    Judging by this quote, the only thing dying is quality:

    Since the beginning of the year, the quality of software has been degrading pretty much everywhere, much of it caused by over-reliance on AI, or perhaps more accurately, the outsourcing of thinking and decision making to AI. In July, I moved my video podcast off of Spotify after a series of unexplainable outages, and Spotify’s engineering team seemed to take no real pride or accountability in fixing the root causes of the issue.

    Only this week, Uber shipped a new feature to production in the Uber Eats app – a new way to select extras with your food order – with seemingly no QA testing: