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DHH: Future of Programming, AI, Ruby on Rails, Productivity & Parenting: chapters

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  1. First computers
  2. Attempts at programming
  3. Bulletin boards and belonging
  4. Discovering the web
  5. Web application complexity
  6. Browser capabilities and build tools
  7. Browser engines
  8. Regulation and cookie banners
  9. Early collaboration with Fried
  10. Basecamp and discovering Ruby
  11. Ruby syntax
  12. Expressive code
  13. Trust and language design
  14. Taste and useful software
  15. Metaprogramming and typing
  16. Tradeoffs between languages
  17. Rails at commercial scale
  18. Contributions and scaling decisions
  19. YJIT and engineering costs
  20. Productivity and AI assistance