You can't open a feed today without having AI boosters fling word salad like "agentic engineering" or "openclaw" into your beautiful but disapproving face. I'm terrible at predicting the future—you should ask me about selling NVIDIA stock in early 2022 some time—but one thing seems abundantly clear at this point.
The AI Ouroboros is chewing its tail, and we're all being strangled in the center.
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.