David Heinemeier Hansson (DHH)

It's not the only human value.

The human value is just as much in the expression.

When someone who sits down on a guitar and plays Stairways to Heaven, there's a perfect recording of that that will last in eternity.

You can just put it on Spotify.

You don't actually need to do it.

The joy is to command the guitar yourself.

The joy of a programmer, of me as a programmer, is to type the code myself.

If I elevate myself, if I promote myself out of programming...

I turned myself into a project manager, a project manager of murder of AI crows, as I wrote the other day.

I could have become a project manager my whole career.

I could have become a project manager 20 years ago if I didn't care to write code myself and I just wanted outcomes.

That's how I got started in programming.

I just wanted outcomes.

Then I fell in love with programming.

And now I'd rather retire than giving it up.

Now, that doesn't mean you can't have your cake and eat it too.

I've done some vibe coding where I didn't care that I wasn't playing myself.

I just wanted to see something.

There was an idea in my head.

I wanted to see something.