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AI coding models have become good enough since summer 2025 that resisting letting them write code directly no longer makes sense, reversing the author's prior stance.

DHH says his earlier reluctance to let AI write code unsupervised was really a reflection of weaker models, and that this has now completely flipped. ✦ AI generated

David Heinemeier Hansson · The Pragmatic Engineer · 2026-06-23 · original ↗

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Just [in] summer 2025, I spoke with Lex Fridman about not letting AI write any code directly, but it turns out part of this resistance was simply based on the models not being good enough at the time! I spent more time rewriting what it wrote, than if I'd done it from scratch. That has now flipped.

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