It is quite irrelevant to examine political opinions or if the conference turned into a Jonestown cult etc.

The only thing that matters in AI is to examine the flow of money. DHH is a Shopify board member and surely got Shopify stock.

Additionally, his Omarchy is sponsored by the following AI boosters (https://omarchy.org/patrons/):

  - Meta Superintelligence Labs
  - DigitalOcean
  - Alibaba Cloud
  - Shopify (Tobi Lütke)
  - Stripe (Collison)
  - Dell (Dell)
  - Cloudflare (Prince)
  - Dropbox (Houston)
  - OpenClaw (Steinberger)
  - Coinbase (Armstrong)

His Fridman promotion was sponsored by Shopify:

https://lexfridman.com/sponsors/ep501-sb

His future is tied to the AI narrative and he sells out stuff he no longer needs like RoR. Anything he says is an advertisement.