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The Pulse: RoR creator sparks new “death of coding by hand” debate
Gergely Orosz · The Pragmatic Engineer
Sep 24, 2026 · 27s listen · Last updated September 24, 2026
The Pulse is a series covering events, insights, and trends within Big Tech and startups. Today, we cover: 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.
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