16-01-2026 17:06 via developers.slashdot.org

Ruby on Rails Creator Says AI Coding Tools Still Can't Match Most Junior Programmers

AI still can't produce code as well as most junior programmers he's worked with, David Heinemeier Hansson, the creator of Ruby on Rails and co-founder of 37 Signals, said on a recent podcast [video link], which is why he continues to write most of his code by hand. Hansson compared AI's current coding capabilities to "a flickering light bulb" -- total darkness punctuated by moments of clarity before going pitch black again.
At his company, humans wrote 95% of the code for Fizzy, 37 Signals' Kanb
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