I no longer care to work on any Ruby gems so I've archived all my repositories
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An open-source developer archived all his Ruby gems, citing AI and DHH as reasons.
The author archived his Ruby gem repositories, explaining he no longer wants to contribute to a commons being 'strip-mined' by corporations for LLM training. He cites Ruby's original design for human joy, but says that era is over. He criticizes Rails' creator DHH for his views and his recent focus on LLM-generated Rust apps, and notes Matz now positions Ruby as a 'Programming Language for AI age' to be emitted by LLMs. He states he's done contributing to code used as training data for machines.
What commenters are saying
The thread split into camps: those sympathizing with the author's frustration and those seeing inevitable progress. One top comment praised the 'sleeping in a bed someone has taken a shit in' analogy. Another offered a counter-analogy: an artisan carpenter replaced by cheaper, faster robots, arguing the market has embraced AI code generation. Several pushed back, questioning the true cost and maintainability of AI-generated code, while others asserted that open-source models prevent vendor lock-in and that quality sacrifices are acceptable for 99% cost reduction.