DHH at Rails World 2026: Hey is leaving Rails for Rust and native apps, built entirely by LLMs
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DHH 在 Rails World 2026 的开场演讲里说自己已经从专业程序员退休，现在是个“maker”。他认为英语是最好的编程语言，手写代码对大多数程序员来说已经不再划算。37signals 正在用 LLM 把 Hey 重写成六个原生客户端，后端换成 Rust——他说 Rust 对人类很丑，但对 LLM 很友好。他八月写了 15 万行代码，Rub...
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DHH opened Rails World 2026 by declaring himself retired from professional programming and now a 'maker.' He says English is the best programming language and hand-written code is no longer economically productive. 37signals is using LLMs to rewrite Hey into six native apps with a Rust backend—Rust is hideous for humans but great for LLMs. He wrote 150k lines of code in August; Ruby dropped to 3% of his output. Rails is reframed as a framework for 'web apps of necessity,' with convention-over-configuration rebranded as token efficiency. The author questions how products differentiated by UI/UX survive if everything becomes CLI-driven by agents. DHH offered Rails devs pep-talk confidence but no actual roadmap.