--- title: "On Rails — Joanna Wang: Code Is Cheap Now; Developers Still Valuable" url: https://daily.dev/posts/on-rails-joanna-wang-code-is-cheap-now-developers-still-valuable-jnpaumvex source_url: https://rubyonrails.org/2026/8/18/on-rails-joanna-wang-sixfold type: article source: "Rails" published: 2026-08-18T16:39:28.653Z updated: 2026-08-18T19:19:47.420Z tags: ["architecture", "ai-agents", "rails", "workflow-orchestration"] reading_time: 1 upvotes: 0 comments: 0 language: 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. # On Rails — Joanna Wang: Code Is Cheap Now; Developers Still Valuable **[Rails](https://daily.dev/sources/rails)** · 1 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary A podcast episode features Joanna Wang, a senior software engineer at Sixfold, discussing why her team's homegrown orchestration system built on state machines and callbacks became brittle, and what changed after migrating to Hatchet, an open-source orchestration tool. The conversation covers tradeoffs of depending on an unmaintained gem, the shift to a fully agentic workflow, and how AI agents make tracing Rails' metaprogramming magic easier to understand. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Similar posts on daily.dev - [Rails Business Podcast \(again\)](https://daily.dev/posts/rails-business-podcast-again--qogcsfxdb) · RUBYLAND · 0 upvotes · 0 comments - [2 Martians, greenfield to MVP in 4 weeks: agentic coding on Rails—Martian Chronicles, Evil Martians’ team blog](https://daily.dev/posts/2-martians-greenfield-to-mvp-in-4-weeks-agentic-coding-on-rails-martian-chronicles-evil-martians--jfk5nweey) · Martian Chronicles · 5 upvotes · 1 comments - [Fragments: July 6](https://daily.dev/posts/fragments-july-6-0q4ip6gyp) · Martin Fowler · 0 upvotes · 0 comments --- Tags: [#architecture](https://daily.dev/tags/architecture), [#ai-agents](https://daily.dev/tags/ai-agents), [#rails](https://daily.dev/tags/rails), [#workflow-orchestration](https://daily.dev/tags/workflow-orchestration) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/on-rails-joanna-wang-code-is-cheap-now-developers-still-valuable-jnpaumvex)