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The Pulse: RoR creator sparks new “death of coding by hand” debate

newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com original

37signals – the creator of Ruby on Rails (RoR) – moves over to agents generating nearly all its code. Also: Amazon and Meta struggle to hire engineers, code reviews will probably also go away and more#

Gergely Orosz's avatar

Sep 24, 2026

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The Pulse is a series covering events, insights, and trends within Big Tech and startups.

Today, we cover:

  1. Writing code by hand: is it over? In his Rails World keynote, David Heinemeier Hansson (DHH) declared the end for writing code by hand for professional work – at 37signals at least. Is this change now unstoppable?

  2. Amazon and Meta struggle to hire and …