The Pragmatic Engineer 20260408 DHH's New Way of Writing Code Summary
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The Pragmatic Engineer surfaced this April 8, 2026 piece, and the original post is DHH’s new way of writing code.
Gergely Orosz interviews David Heinemeier Hansson about a notable reversal. Six months ago, DHH said he did not want AI writing his code. Now he describes an agent-first workflow built around terminals, tmux, Neovim, and multiple models running in parallel. His argument is not that the principles of software craft changed. It is that the tools improved enough to make delegation worthwhile. Autocomplete used to feel annoying and low-value; newer agents can now produce code that he is comfortable reviewing and sometimes merging with minimal changes.