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Programmers who loved the mechanical act of coding are under threat; those who wanted to build things are not.

open-ended posted by David Heinemeier Hansson · 26 Aug 2026

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  1. 26 Aug 2026

    David Heinemeier Hansson quoted

    I think you're gonna have a hard time coping with the new reality if the only thing you loved about programming was the mechanical bits of putting the right logical constructs together to produce something other people told you to produce. Because that mechanical process is under threat. If you are, as you just mentioned, excited about building things, I don't think you're under threat at all.
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    DHH: Future of Programming, AI, Agentic Engineering, Vibe Coding & Linux | Lex Fridman Podcast #501youtube.com