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Re:Returning to Rails in 2026 by Zanfa on Thursday March 12, 2026 @03:17AM (#47347488)
> Accelerate your agents with convention over configuration. Ruby on Rails scales from PROMPT to IPO. Token-efficient code that's easy for agents to write and beautiful for humans to review

This is so painful... I can't help but wonder who they're trying to target with such inane slogans.

Rails is amazing, but "token-efficiency" is not on the list of reasons why.

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Re:Returning to Rails in 2026 by stephenr on Thursday March 12, 2026 @03:22AM (#47347523)
> This is so painful... I can't help but wonder who they're trying to target with such inane slogans.

The people who think that spicy autocomplete actually has an understanding of the slop it's churning out for them.

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Re:Returning to Rails in 2026 by Zanfa on Thursday March 12, 2026 @03:51AM (#47347721)
Those people don't choose frameworks. It'll be chosen for them by some LLM and given the prevalence of JS, it'll likely be some flavor of React.
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Re:Returning to Rails in 2026 by wiseowise on Thursday March 12, 2026 @05:12AM (#47348236)
> This is so painful... I can't help but wonder who they're trying to target with such inane slogans.

Typical DHH insanity.

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