David Heinemeier Hansson
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first heard Aug 2025
last heard 26 Aug
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the least in terms of lines of code.
I have the least number of personally hand chiseled lines of code in Quattro than I've had in any major release I've ever done.
And yet I am insanely proud of what we've accomplished.
I would not have guessed that that was how it was gonna play out, that you could divorce the sense of achievement and make it be like a team victory.
Where
other releases, I was very happy for my personal contribution because like I was the one chiseling out the lines of code and then I would push it out there.
And then later on, of course, these projects, Rails in particular, would grow into be
Huge open source projects with thousands and thousands of contributors.
And then it certainly was a team effort.
But in the beginning, all code bases that I've almost all of them that I've worked on, I started like just myself.
And Quattro started as a team effort right from the get go and where I was just the coach.
I was telling us I was telling the agents where to go and we would go.
So to be able to find satisfaction in that actually
Gives me great hope for retirement in some way.
that there is a phase after playing that you can enjoy.
And
I know that's not easy.
You look at sports and the number of professional athletes who really struggle to cope with the fact that the career's over and have to find a new identity as someone who doesn't play football or race Formula One cars.
I mean it's it's more the rule than the exception.
So I wasn't so sure about myself.
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