David Heinemeier Hansson (DHH)
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
So it's just structured the whole thing around that.
It's going to have attributes.
Those attributes are going to respond to columns in the database.
It's not more complicated than that.
Stop making it so.
as long as you want to stay at the entry level of competence, and this is actually my overarching mission with Rails, is to lower the barrier of entry so far down that someone can start seeing stuff on the browser without basically understanding anything.
They can run Rails new,
blog, run a couple of generators.
They have a whole system.
They don't understand anything, but it's an invitation to learn more.
Where I get fired up, and this ties back to the AI discussion, is when that's turned into this meme that programmers no longer have to be competent.
The AI is going to figure it out.
The generators is going to figure it out.
I don't need to know SQL.
Active Record is going to abstract it away from me.
No, no, no.
Dude,
Hold up.
The path here is competence.
I'm trying to teach you things.