He's passionate about programming and productivity. So how does David Heinemeier Hansson (DHH) feel about AI-assisted vibe coding?
For his 474th podcast, Lex Fridman performed a special six-hour interview with DHH, the legendary creator of Ruby on Rails, who proved to be a shrewd observer of our moment in time. In short, DHH says he loves collaborating with AI: for creating drafts, looking up APIs or even getting a second opinion. But he uses it differently than most people, always keeping his AI-generated code in a separate window. Otherwise "I can literally feel competence draining out of my fingers!"
It's possible that one day, AI-assisted programming will mean more programming gets done, paradoxically increasing the amount spent on human programmers. But DHH says he's also open to the possibility that AI could do to programming what cars did to horses — turn programming into something we only turn to recreationally
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