Ruby on Rails Creator Says Coding is Apparently Dead... Again?

On September 23rd, Ruby on Rails creator DHH (David Heinemeier Hansson) told a packed Rails World Conference that writing code by hand is over. He calls it “pencils down,” and says he wrote 150,000 lines of AI-assisted code in a single month. This video checks whether the claim holds up or whether it’s just the latest “AI will replace programmers” prediction.

We compare DHH’s keynote to Jensen Huang’s 2024 claim that everyone is now a programmer, then look at the evidence on both sides: the Hey