If you watched the interview between DHH (the creator of Ruby on Rails) and Lex Fridman six months ago, which lasted a full six hours, he mentioned that while he enjoys using AI as an assistant to check APIs and find inspiration, he firmly refuses to let AI write directly into his codebase. His original point was that if your fingers aren't touching the code, you'll lose connection with it. Just like playing the guitar, there are perfect recordings on Spotify, but the joy of playing it yourself is different. "My joy comes from coding myself." During the interview, he also warned young programmers: if something can be coded by anyone, then it’s not a valuable skill. You’re just a "tap monkey🐒" hitting the "accept" button. Now he tweeted: Don’t let the garbage and awkwardness of AI negate its magic. This is one of the most exciting things we've done with computers, second only to connecting them to the internet. He now admits that half of his resistance back then was actually due to the models not being good enough. At that time, the time spent rewriting AI code was more than writing it from scratch. But now the situation has reversed. The model capabilities have improved, and the tool experience has also improved. The opencode he has been using recently allows the AI Agent to run bash, access web pages, and perform code analysis using LSP. Watching the model tackle a complex bug, he said it was a revelation. DHH represents a type of person: a seasoned programmer with a code obsession, who has been coding for thirty years and still finds joy in it. Many in this group are resistant to AI writing code, but more and more people are starting to change their minds and embrace AI. DHH mentioned in his tweet that he still handwrites a lot of code but lets AI write the first draft: > This is both out of necessity (sometimes the model still doesn’t produce the results I want) and for fun (coding itself is so enjoyable!). > But I have fully accepted a reality: letting AI create a decent first draft can indeed greatly enhance work efficiency. DHH said in that six-hour podcast with Lex: > Our predictions about the future are often wrong, but that doesn’t stop us from making choices. His choice is: to continue coding because he enjoys it; while also embracing AI because it is indeed useful. "What a time to love computers!" It truly is a great time to love computers.