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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."

DT Editorial Team·Sep 25, 2026·via the-decoder.com

Cursor says its upgraded swarm rebuilt SQLite in Rust from documentation only and passed the full test suite.
The system separates frontier-model planners from cheaper worker models that execute coding tasks.
Cursor argues the main advantage is context separation and coordination, not just parallelism.
The company built new coordination mechanisms after earlier swarms ran into merge conflicts and design duplication.

DT Editorial Team·Jul 26, 2026·via the-decoder.com

Amazon reportedly removed an internal AI usage leaderboard after employees gamed it.
Workers boosted rankings with low-value AI activity that raised cloud costs.
The company is shifting toward metrics tied to useful AI-generated deployments.

DT Editorial Team·May 30, 2026·via the-decoder.com

Women returning from parental leave are reentering software workplaces transformed by AI.
The shift is changing expectations around what coding work looks like.
The burden of adaptation is falling unevenly on workers who were away during the transition.

DT Editorial Team·May 28, 2026·via wired.com

Cursor says Composer 2.5 was trained on 25 times more synthetic tasks than Composer 2.
The model reportedly scored 79.8 percent on SWE-Bench Multilingual and 63.2 percent on CursorBench v3.1.
Cursor positions Composer 2.5 as far cheaper per task than top rival models.
The model is already live in Cursor, with a larger successor reportedly in training.

DT Editorial Team·May 19, 2026·via the-decoder.com

Grafana says attackers used a stolen token to enter its GitLab environment.
The company says customer and financial data were not accessed.
Hackers demanded payment to prevent release of the codebase, but Grafana refused.

DT Editorial Team·May 18, 2026·via techcrunch.com

Sea says internal data shows 87% of users are weekly active users on Codex.
The company frames AI coding as a structural change, not a marginal productivity gain.
Sea highlights code understanding, debugging and feature development as key use cases.

DT Editorial Team·May 15, 2026·via openai.com

Moonshot AI released Kimi K2.6 as an open-weight model aimed at frontier coding and agent tasks.
The company says Agent Swarm can run up to 300 sub-agents in parallel, with each taking up to 4,000 steps.
K2.6 is available through chat, agent mode, API, Kimi Code, and as a download on Hugging Face.

DT Editorial Team·Apr 21, 2026·via the-decoder.com