David Heinemeier Hansson (DHH)

Like a second ago, we thought that it was the blue collar labor that was going to be extracted first.

It was the robots that were going to take over.

Then Gen AI comes out and then all the artists suddenly look like, holy shit.

Is this going to do all animation now?

Is it going to do all music now?

They get real scared.

And now I see the latest Tesla robot going like, oh, maybe we're back now to blue collar being in trouble because if it can dance like that, it can probably fix a toilet.

So no one knows anything.

And you have to then position yourself for the future in such a way that

It doesn't matter that you pick a profession or path where if it turns out that you have to retool and reskill, you're not going to regret the path you took.

That's a general life principle for me.

How I look at all endeavors I involve myself in is I want to be content with all outcomes.

When we start working on a new product at 37signals, I set up my mental model for its success.

And I go, do you know what?

If no one wants this, I will have had another opportunity to write beautiful Ruby code, to explore a greenfield domain, to learn something new, to build a system I want, even if no one else wants it.

What a blessing.

What a privilege.

If a bunch of people want it,

That's great.

We can pay some salaries.