--- title: Are we all retired engineers? I love this take | daily.dev description: DHH's Rails World 2026 opening keynote frames AI coding agents (Opus 4.5, Kimi K2.5, Fable 5/Mythos, GPT-6 Astra, DeepSeek-4-1) as an inflection point... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/are-we-all-retired-engineers-i-love-this-take-etiduo7tz twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Are we all retired engineers? I love this take | daily.dev og:description: DHH's Rails World 2026 opening keynote frames AI coding agents (Opus 4.5, Kimi K2.5, Fable 5/Mythos, GPT-6 Astra, DeepSeek-4-1) as an inflection point... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/are-we-all-retired-engineers-i-love-this-take-etiduo7tz og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/ETiduO7tz.png og:image:alt: Are we all retired engineers? I love this take og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Are we all retired engineers? I love this take **[controversy.dev](https://daily.dev/sources/controversy)** · [@idoshamun](https://daily.dev/idoshamun) · 20 upvotes · 32 comments ## Summary DHH's Rails World 2026 opening keynote frames AI coding agents (Opus 4.5, Kimi K2.5, Fable 5/Mythos, GPT-6 Astra, DeepSeek-4-1) as an inflection point comparable to the invention of photography, arguing that hand-written code is now economically obsolete for most programmers. He describes 37signals going 'pencils down' on manual coding, rewriting Hey as native apps with a Rust backend generated entirely by agents, and building his own OS (Omarchy), apps, and even this presentation's software using agents without reading the generated code. He argues English is now a better programming language than Ruby for directing agents, claims 100x-1000x productivity gaps between programmers with and without these tools, and urges total optimism about AI's impact on the software profession, while acknowledging security risks and unknowns about future software architecture. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Community discussion Top comments from developers on daily.dev. **@petermrozek** · 7 upvotes > Short version: No. > > Long version: Just yesterday I had AI running in circles for a few hours trying to solve an error in a theme for Keycloak. The poor bastard of a drawing machine didn't reflect at all that what I wanted (a V1 account theme) has been officially removed from the codebase 3 versions prior to the one we were using. It got fixated on my request without analysing if it was at all possible. All the data was there, the conclusion was not. So, no - manual coding isn't going anywhere. And yes, I finished what I wanted by myself in around 30 minutes. **@vikyw** · 1 upvotes > I'm upping my P(doom) ## Similar posts on daily.dev - [Rails Connections - Tropical on Rails 2026 Highlights](https://daily.dev/posts/rails-connections---tropical-on-rails-2026-highlights-jweycjvio) · RUBYLAND · 0 upvotes · 0 comments --- Tags: [#ai-agents](https://daily.dev/tags/ai-agents), [#rust](https://daily.dev/tags/rust), [#rails](https://daily.dev/tags/rails), [#vibe-coding](https://daily.dev/tags/vibe-coding) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/are-we-all-retired-engineers-i-love-this-take-etiduo7tz) ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180},"sameAs":["https://twitter.com/dailydotdev","https://github.com/dailydotdev","https://www.linkedin.com/company/daily-dev-ltd"]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https://daily.dev/#website","url":"https://daily.dev","name":"daily.dev","publisher":{"@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization"},"potentialAction":{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https://daily.dev/search?q={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"DiscussionForumPosting","mainEntityOfPage":"https://daily.dev/posts/are-we-all-retired-engineers-i-love-this-take-etiduo7tz","headline":"Are we all retired engineers? I love this take","text":"Shared: Rails World 2026 Opening Keynote - DHH","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/are-we-all-retired-engineers-i-love-this-take-etiduo7tz","datePublished":"2026-09-27T19:37:57.080Z","dateModified":"2026-09-27T19:38:54.676Z","author":{"@type":"Person","name":"Ido Shamun","url":"https://daily.dev/idoshamun","image":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/s---xy_OAwk--/f_auto,q_auto/v1703781380/avatars/avatar_28849d86070e4c099c877ab6837c61f0","description":"I'm to blame if something goes wrong here 🙈","worksFor":{"@type":"Organization","name":"daily.dev","logo":"https://daily-now-res.cloudinary.com/image/upload/s--MASZOhnv--/f_auto/v1614088267/landing/Daily.dev_logo"},"interactionStatistic":{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":{"@type":"EndorseAction"},"userInteractionCount":189450}},"image":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/s--OHB84bZF--/f_auto/v1722860399/public/Placeholder%2010","interactionStatistic":[{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":{"@type":"LikeAction"},"userInteractionCount":20},{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":{"@type":"CommentAction"},"userInteractionCount":32}],"sharedContent":{"@type":"WebPage","url":"https://api.daily.dev/r/Cic6SWxld"},"comment":[{"@type":"Comment","text":"Short version: No.\nLong version: Just yesterday I had AI running in circles for a few hours trying to solve an error in a theme for Keycloak. The poor bastard of a drawing machine didn’t reflect at all that what I wanted (a V1 account theme) has been officially removed from the codebase 3 versions prior to the one we were using. It got fixated on my request without analysing if it was at all possible. All the data was there, the conclusion was not. So, no - manual coding isn’t going anywhere. And yes, I finished what I wanted by myself in around 30 minutes.","datePublished":"2026-09-28T07:09:36.819Z","dateModified":"2026-09-28T07:16:18.054Z","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/ETiduO7tz#c-KeY7TvePM","author":{"@type":"Person","name":"Peter Mrożek","url":"https://daily.dev/petermrozek","image":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/s--pBfYX68K--/f_auto/v1769247960/avatars/avatar_Qz65P1nVw3Bu6C5YwaZgA?_a=BAMAMiiu0"},"interactionStatistic":{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":{"@type":"LikeAction"},"userInteractionCount":7}},{"@type":"Comment","text":"I’m upping my P(doom)","datePublished":"2026-10-01T06:57:00.543Z","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/ETiduO7tz#c-ANdO6ZQ49","author":{"@type":"Person","name":"Viky","url":"https://daily.dev/vikyw","image":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/s--sjD6--px--/f_auto/v1790844228/avatars/avatar_tACgiGBrwLBEozSFs7dQu?_a=BAMAMicg0"},"interactionStatistic":{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":{"@type":"LikeAction"},"userInteractionCount":1}}],"isPartOf":{"@type":"WebPage","url":"https://daily.dev/squads/controversy","name":"controversy.dev"}} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https://daily.dev"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"controversy.dev","item":"https://daily.dev/squads/controversy"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"name":"Are we all retired engineers? I love this take"}]} ```