It’s Over

DHH’s recent keynote talk, given at Rails World, has been all over social media: My god this is such a good speech that every SWE needs to hear. You know what? Every person should hear itKeep the happy memories, eyes on the reality, be excited about the future. That’s the best that anyone can do pic.twitter.com/KKFUXfesFb— Scott (@scottstts) September 25, 2026 I’ve gotta say, I agree with him. It is over. The whole writing code by hand thing. And, probably like many of you, I’ve had a cavalcade of feelings about it. I vividly remember when I realized it, too. It was summer of 2025 when Claude Code first was making waves. At that time, I was developing Alyx, trying to hit the iOS 26 release. After carefully reviewing some documentation and watching a W.W.D.C. session, I handcrafted Alyx’s first app intent. And that was it. I pointed Claude at what I made, and it proceeded to develop the other 49 intents. I played product manager and code reviewer. Claude did the grunt work. Initially,…