David Heinemeier Hansson (DHH)

One program would be driving.

They'd be typing in.

The other programmer would essentially sit and watch the code, suggest improvements, look something up.

That was a really interesting dynamic.

Now, unfortunately, I'm an introvert, so I can do that for about five minutes before I want to jump off a bridge.

So it doesn't work for me as a full-time occupation, but AI allows me to have all the best of that experience all the time.

Now, I think what's really interesting what you said about it makes it more fun.

I hadn't actually thought about that, but...

What it's made more fun to me is to be a beginner again.

It made it more fun to learn Bash successfully for the first time.

Now, I had to do the detour where I let it write all the code for me, and I realized I wasn't learning nearly as much as I hoped I would, and that I started doing once I typed it out myself.

But it gave me the confidence that, you know what, if I need to do some iOS programming myself...

I haven't done that in probably six years was the last time I dabbled in it.

I never really built anything for real.

I feel highly confident now that I could sit down with AI and I could have something in the app store by the end of the week.

I would not have that confidence unless I had a pair programming body like AI.

I don't actually use it very much for Ruby code.

I'm occasionally impressed whenever I try it.

They're like, oh, it got this one thing right.

That is truly remarkable.