What’s the message here? I read and read a lot of words but nothing clear came through. Maybe he sort of seems to be saying that Ruby is special in modern programming with LLMs? That doesn’t ring true for me - seems that languages are less special and less differentiated than ever with LLMs, which is to say that languages just tend to be less important now and that’s a good thing. Who cares about language, just build the thing.
Is he saying that Ruby is better for LLM programming? That’s hard to imagine because strong typing has to be a big help for automated programming tools and Ruby is behind all the other modern languages on typing.
Author argues that values long embedded in Ruby culture (testing, readability, design) are very useful for collaborating with AI, gives an example os asking Claude to follow tdd
This looks like babysitting a kid. If that's how CHAT/"vibe coding" looks like - no thank you. I would be frustrated all the time.
What’s the message here? I read and read a lot of words but nothing clear came through. Maybe he sort of seems to be saying that Ruby is special in modern programming with LLMs? That doesn’t ring true for me - seems that languages are less special and less differentiated than ever with LLMs, which is to say that languages just tend to be less important now and that’s a good thing. Who cares about language, just build the thing.
Is he saying that Ruby is better for LLM programming? That’s hard to imagine because strong typing has to be a big help for automated programming tools and Ruby is behind all the other modern languages on typing.
Tl;dr?
Author argues that values long embedded in Ruby culture (testing, readability, design) are very useful for collaborating with AI, gives an example os asking Claude to follow tdd