alt Hacker NewsWhat the article characterizes DHH as saying:
Look how I don’t care anymore, and you should not care either
What DHH actually said:
I have AI delirium. AI euphoria. Because this is simply the most exciting thing we have made computers do in the time I have worked with them, played with them, interacted with them. But I think actually to wrestle with the fact that on the one hand, this is tremendously exciting, it is also a little unnerving.
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There's only one play here, and it's total Fucking optimism. Lean in to the max possible. Because the utopia is almost here.
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He doth protest too much.
We might be a bit suspicious of the sincerity of a man who spent 20 years evangelizing the beauty and expressiveness of code, and who felt he was a pioneer in that field, and who then finds himself and his life's work completely obsolete, when he tells us how excited he is about LLMs never letting him never write code again.
Which stage of grief is "delirium"? After we accept the death of our child, are we euphoric?
I mean, he is kind of spelling it out for you there: "there's only one play here".
That's just AI promo though.
DHH is like a script that runs permanently in a loop, promoting AI now.
Before that it was rails, though the old rails promo made a lot more sense than the AI promo. But as long as you feed these people money, they do whatever you want them to say. An even more hilarious example is Sebastian Kurz - dude got insta-rich after politics. Like +100 million euros in a year. Tell me this is not corruption to the max ...
The AI companies and security companies buy legislation. Everywhere. And their financial kickbacks are AMAZING - otherwise you could not so easily change a few top-influencers into tools to influence other people.
If people want to have the OG transcript - they can always find it. I was translating the message he (willingly or not) has sent out to that particular audience, in that particular context.