Ruby on Rails creator: ‘We’re done writing code by hand.’

David Heinemeier Hansson, who also leads technology at Basecamp developer 37signals, announced the company is moving away from Ruby in favor of vibe-coding everything with AI agents. That’s despite admitting that attempts to do so with Basecamp 5 this spring provided “mixed” results, andclaiming last yearthat he doesn’t use AI because he “can literally feel competence draining out of my fingers.” A free daily digest of the news that matters most.