The Pulse: RoR creator sparks new “death of coding by hand” debate
2.88T1.5 sourceThe Pragmatic Engineer (Gergely Orosz)
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Published by The Pragmatic Engineer (Gergely Orosz) (T1.5 source). The original is at https://newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com/p/the-pulse-end-of-coding-by-hand.
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SummaryThe Pragmatic Engineer's weekly news roundup notes that 37signals, creator of Ruby on Rails, now relies on AI agents to generate nearly all its code. It also reports Amazon and Meta are struggling to hire engineers, and that code reviews may become obsolete as AI coding agents mature.
Why it mattersA concrete named-company signal that agent-generated code is moving from experiment to default for some software shops, beyond the usual vendor hype.

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