It’s the end of Rails World as we know it (and I feel fine)

Programming frameworks come and go. They usually get slowly mothballed as developers move on to something new, shiny, simpler, faster, or more interesting. It’s not often they just… end. Like, that’s it, we’re done, it’s finished. Thank you and good night.I watched DHH’s latest Rails World keynote and I found it fascinating because this is kinda what he was saying about Rails as we know it – without actually saying it.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vDjW_dRyKXYDHH declared that hand-crafting code, at least in business, is dead. At 37signals, his company that employs some of the most gifted programmers of their generation, everyone is now expected to code using English to direct LLM agents. And not just the programmers.No more programmers. Just people making agents make programs.I’ve written about hand-cranked code being dead for a while, because it’s blindingly obvious that LLM coding is transformative for software development. It’s now as good as (or better than) the best…