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DHH went “pencils down.” Is “AI can’t code” still a serious argument?

DHH just told a room full of developers that 37signals has effectively gone “pencils down.” Writing code by hand is now the exception there, not the default. He says he went from roughly 30k lines of production code per year historically to around 150k lines in August using agents, and they’re now…

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  1. 2026-09-26 15:09 · r/artificial
    DHH went “pencils down.” Is “AI can’t code” still a serious argument?

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