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DHH had AI agents rewrite Basecamp's Campfire chat app in Elixir, Go, and Rust, showing nearly 150x performance gaps versus Ruby, and argued that AI agents writing code may shift language choice from developer ergonomics to runtime efficiency.
Jason Fried shares his pleasure in open-sourcing Campfire, Writebook, and Fizzy, while DHH highlights the value of learning Rails from production code.