David Heinemeier Hansson (DHH)

that both of you can actually understand really quickly and that you can compress a grand concept, a grand system into far fewer parts that both of you can understand.

Now, I actually love collaborating with AI too.

I love chiseling my code and the way I use AI is in a separate window.

I don't let it drive my code.

I've tried that.

I've tried the cursors and the windsurfs, and I don't enjoy that way of writing.

And one of the reasons I don't enjoy that way of writing is I can literally feel competence draining out of my fingers.

Like that level of immediacy with the material

And where I felt this the most was I did this remix of Ubuntu called Amacube when I switched to Linux.

And it's all written in Bash.

I'd never written any serious amount of code in Bash before.

So I was using AI to collaborate to write a bunch of Bash with me.

Because I needed all this.

I knew what I wanted.

I could express it in Ruby.

But I thought it was an interesting challenge to filter through Bash.

Because what I was doing was setting up a Linux machine.

That's basically what Bash was designed for.

It's a great constraint.

But what I found myself doing was asking AI for the same way of expressing a conditional, for example, in Bash over and over again.