We had a wonderful time chiseling that code by hand. We are no longer programmers, but makers of things. What a privilege it was to be on both sides of that chasm.
DHH is probably one of the top software artisans of the past decade. Hearing him speak with this much conviction and transparency about one of the most polarizing topics in software right now, writing code by hand vs. with AI, is something pretty much every software engineer should hear a few times.
Especially those still on the wrong side of history.