I was a fan of Ruby on Rails because a lot of really smart people looked at very hard problems and offered a solution that I was free to use and learn from. Well written Ruby code is a joy to read and review and review, which I think is very important in the AI age, but not everybody agrees, so using Ruby professionally has been a challenge for a while since the market is smaller and smaller. I did not expect to see a "we rewrote our Rails app to Rust and Swift" as part the RailsWorld keynote, but here we are. I am sort of hoping it's just another effort to get more people on Hey and reduce costs to make the product viable, but then again, why wouldn't this apply to any other product. The other concerning thing is that DHH seemed to say 37signals is vibecoding their Hey apps, while yesterday I was in a room full of PMs explaining why vibecoding into production doesn't work. It's very hard to see the silver lining in all of this, considering that the year started with Dario Amodei saying AI will do everything a SWE does. Maybe he was right and the hobby I had that turned out to also be a well-paying job will have to be just a hobby again.