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summary: "David Heinemeier Hansson, creator of Ruby on Rails, has quit writing code by hand after 25 years. He says he hasn't typed a single line since March 2026. \"English is a better programming language than Ruby,\" DHH told the audience at Rails World 2026. Just a year ago, he was pushing back against AI coding. Now he calls it \"the biggest thing that has happened in the history of computing.\""
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# Ruby on Rails creator DHH says he's done writing code by hand

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**Published:** 2026-09-25T09:50:41.000Z
**Category:** Industry
**Topics:** llm, agent, coding, open\-source, inference, industry

## Summary

David Heinemeier Hansson, creator of Ruby on Rails, has quit writing code by hand after 25 years\. He says he hasn't typed a single line since March 2026\. "English is a better programming language than Ruby," DHH told the audience at Rails World 2026\. Just a year ago, he was pushing back against AI coding\. Now he calls it "the biggest thing that has happened in the history of computing\."

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