DHH: Future of Programming, AI, Agentic Engineering, Vibe Coding & Linux | Lex Fridman Podcast #501
Why Hacker News recommends it
HN commenters cite it as DHH's own account of working with coding agents, using it as evidence that agentic development is producing real projects like Omarchy.
Recommended by 1 people across 1 different months, 2026 to 2026.
What it is
A five-hour Lex Fridman podcast interview with DHH, creator of Ruby on Rails, Omarchy Linux, and CTO of 37signals. They discuss the future of programming, AI and agentic engineering, vibe coding, and Linux.
What people said
Recommends latchkey · 2026-09 · Hacker News · on “The asteroid currently hitting front end web development”
I can see I'm under your skin as you're trying to make this personal. I have a long history of being early and correct with many things. What is transforming under your nose, faster than anything ever before, will take you for surprise, unless make a conscious decsion to wake up. Do yourself a favor and listen to what he's saying... [this video]
Cites Fuzzwah · 2026-08 · Hacker News · on “Omarchy: Any User Process Can Escalate to Root”
In a recent long interview with Lex Friedman, DHH explained that he's essentially doing pure agentic dev on Omarchy now. [this video]
Cites aprdm · 2026-10 · Hacker News · on “Ask HN: Is anybody producing good code with coding agents?”
What is a shiller ? lol You can look at people who are building on the public like this, for example, DHH with [LINK] [this video] I work in private software that I cannot share, but it's for a company you have heard of