Off the Leash by daily.dev

Agents write the code now, and some teams don't even read it. So should you still write code by hand?

It starts with DHH at Rails World 2026, telling a room of Rails developers that 37signals is done writing code by hand. Then come the questions it leaves you with: would you ship code nobody has read, how do you learn the job when an agent does the typing, and how much of the job was ever typing?

For answers we go to what's actually been tried and measured: Bun's 11-day port from Zig to Rust, StrongDM's AI team, where no person reviews the code, Anthropic's own study on learning with AI, and a study of half a million GitHub developers.

Yes, the hosts are AI. We'd use humans, but we've seen ourselves on camera.

Chapters:

0:00 Intro

0:42 What happened at Rails World

2:30 Everybody, by January?

5:26 Would you ship code you can't read?

8:25 How do you learn it now?

12:23 How much of the job was ever typing?

15:12 So, should you still write code by hand?

16:10 Did he change his mind?