Retiring from programming w/ Justin Searls

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Matt just got back from Rails World, where DHH's keynote left a lot of people thinking Rails was over. Justin Searls of Breaking Change , who gave his own retirement talk at Rails World two years ago, joins him to sort it out. They cover why the keynote hit people's fears so hard, whether "the one-person framework" still means anything when agents skip the coding step, and why Justin thinks Rails is heading into another stable era. Justin also explains why taste is the skill that lasts, how he runs seven iOS apps with agents fixing bugs every hour, and what he'd tell someone who's scared right now. Mentioned in this episode DHH's Rails World 2026 keynote : The "pencils down" keynote with…