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Every AI Founder Weekly story that cites DHH (@dhh), newest first. 7 stories since September 2026.
On X: Father of three, Creator of Ruby on Rails + Omarchy, Co-owner & CTO of 37signals, Shopify director, NYT best-selling author, and Le Mans 24h class-winner.
- DHH's adversarial review is one sentence typed into Codex
Two coding agents, no orchestration layer, one instruction each way.
- DHH and Naval split on what free Adobe clones prove
One side sees the end of paid desktop software, the other sees a reason to move everything onto your own servers.
- DHH says a language agents write badly is in trouble
Rauch agrees and says the old rule of picking what humans enjoy writing no longer holds.
- DHH had agents rebuild Campfire in Elixir, Go and Rust
Ruby came out slowest, and Guillermo Rauch says the old reason to ignore that result just stopped applying.
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- DHH says every developer needs an always-on "AI shed"
A cheap box on your own network means you can shut the laptop without killing the agents.
- Arvid Kahl runs adversarial agent reviews with a third as arbiter
His answer to DHH's claim that nobody will hand review every line of agent code.
- DHH says hand-coding is no longer economically viable
His 37signals co-founder Jason Fried says he is designing software solo again after 15 years of mostly directing others.
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