The Pulse: RoR creator sparks new “death of coding by hand” debate
37signals, the creator of Ruby on Rails, just moved to agents generating nearly all its code. Code reviews are next to go.
Why it matters
A canonical Web framework company pivoting to agentic development signals a profession-wide inflection: not just AI-assisted coding, but AI-dominant workflows replacing human engineering practices. This reframes the coding skills debate from 'will AI replace developers?' to 'which developer workflows are being restructured this quarter?'
The key facts
4 to know37signals (Ruby on Rails creator) migrating to agent-generated code as primary development practice
Amazon and Meta facing engineer hiring pressure (context for workforce shift)
Code review practices expected to be eliminated alongside manual coding
Signals a broader profession transition, not a pilot or vendor marketing claim
Go to the source
Pragmatic Engineernewsletter.pragmaticengineer.com
Publisher excerpt: 37signals – the creator of Ruby on Rails (RoR) – moves over to agents generating nearly all its code. Also: Amazon and Meta struggle to hire engineers, code reviews will probably also go away and more