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The future of AI is Ruby on Rails


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Right now, it’s probably the “killer app” of AI: the companies actually making money from language models - like GitHub Copilot, Cursor, Windsurf - are all doing code generation. Ruby on Rails has its own problems - to put it mildly - but the thing it does well is fitting a lot of features into a small amount of code. I do think using a typed language is a good idea, so that one of the big gaps of LLMs - their inability to test their own code like a human would - can be covered by the typechecker.

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