Let's be realistic: DHH isn't going anywhere. He owns the trademarks, he controls the Rails Foundation, he sits on the board of Shopify, and he doesn't give a shit about you. In fact, he seems positively giddy at the idea of people being driven away by his occasionally repugnant blog posts and xeets. I'm sure he'd very much like an ideologically pure userbase for Rails, the same way he'd love for Britain to only contain native brits, wink wink. If that means the "Rails community" becomes a small stagnant pool of people getting paid to cheer for him and Tobi, that's clearly a price he's willing to pay! He'll be staying on, whether you like it or not.
I managed to survive the rise and fall of the blockchain without writing a single goddamn word about it. So it is with a heavy heart I take to the keyboard this time, because as you probably surmised upon reading the B-word, this post is me finally waving my white flag and writing something about AI. I'm sorry, and I wish things could be different, but this is apparently what the world wants and I am powerless in the face of it.