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Rails Creator DHH Quits Hand-Coding: 'English Is a Better Programming Language'
Key Takeaways
- Ruby on Rails creator David Heinemeier Hansson announced at Rails World 2026 that he has quit writing code by hand after 25 years.
- He says he has not typed a single line of code himself since around March 2026, a reversal from his open pushback against AI coding just over a year earlier.
- DHH argues manual coding no longer makes economic sense for most programmers and companies, and predicts that will apply to nearly every domain by year's end.
- He told the audience that "English is a better programming language than Ruby" and framed programmers as becoming "professional makers of things."
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