Lex Fridman
Long conversations about technology, science and people.
5,070,000 subscribers on YouTube, 1 episode on Skim so far.
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5:15:51A programmer known for hand-crafted code says AI gave him the most fun he's ever had with computers.
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- A five-hour talk between podcast host Lex Fridman and DHH, who created Ruby on Rails, a popular tool for building websites.
- DHH runs technology at 37signals, the company behind Basecamp, and wrote careful code by hand for about 25 years.
- Agents are AIs that take a whole job and work through it alone on a computer.
- Critics call this AI a parrot and say fans like him have lost it. He says ignoring the change is the delusion.
- His proof is Omarchy, his own version of the Linux operating system, whose latest release agents wrote while he steered.
- Later they move on to immigration, social media, kids and death.
- Channel
- Lex Fridman
- Guest
- DHH
- Published
- Aug 26, 2026
- Length
- 5 h 16 min
- Views when added
- 2,339,365
- Channel subscribers
- 5,070,000