The REPL: Issue 146 - October 2026

AI Promised Less Work. I Have Never Worked More Orestis Ioannou points out that he doesn’t have less work in the age of AI. Neither do I. The work is different, but I’m not sitting around drinking coffee. I never took the promise of less work seriously anyway. If anything, what I can do by myself has expanded. Living in the Weimar era of Ruby The title is clickbait, and the article is not what you imagine. I’m linking to it because it points to this exchange, which I found insightful. Nate Berkopec: I just think you need to have some epistemic humility Most important development in computing in 20 years comes along, and the exact stack you’ve been working on that whole time happens to be the perfect stack for the next 20 years? OK. José Valim: You are right but it also feels short-sighted? You have the most powerful tool you ever had, you have become a 1000x maker, and you can’t think of how to make your stack 10x better? Yes, Rust is fast, the type system catches bugs, but there is…

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