#revenu universel

AI Coding Agents & Skills September 28, 2026 Auto-verified translation

The End of Hand-Written Code: A Conversation with David Heinemeier Hansson (DHH) on AI, Omarchy and the Future of Programming

Long-form interview (**25-minute read**) with **David Heinemeier Hansson**, creator of **Ruby on Rails** and co-owner of **37signals**, by **Vikas Shah** in *Thought Economics*, published on **September 28, 2026**, five days after the opening keynote of **Rails World** in Austin where he announced that 37signals was going *"pencils down"* on hand-written code. **(A)** The reversal, dated: in summer 2025 he told **Lex Fridman** he would not let AI write his code; what changed his mind was the arrival of coding agents in late 2025, and *"the change has really become vertical, in my opinion, over the last three or four months"*. **(B)** The underlying argument is not technical but political: programmers had become *"a clerical class"* mediating access to the machine, and the agent plays the role of Luther — *"Agent Luther"* — by removing the intermediary. He draws a consequence for himself: his coding skills are no longer *"economically viable as an independent lever"*. **(C)** The sorting of business models: client-side is *"already gone"* (Adobe), client-server still holds because *"people have no desire to run their own servers"*, plumbing moats hold (Shopify, *"payment, shipping, and tax systems"*), and **Salesforce** and **SAP** are *"in serious trouble"* since *"there's no more value in the code, only in process intuitions"*. **(D)** **Omarchy**, his Linux distribution with built-in agents: the **Quattro** version written exclusively by agents, **200,000 downloads in 18 days**, **4,000 plugins** in four weeks, **$21.7M** in donation pledges. **(E)** The forward-looking close: AGI reached, *"pockets of ASI"*, robots, and *"what do you do when you have nothing left to do?"*. To be read against [[lecun-still-far-from-human-level-ai-llm-2026-09-25]] from the same month.

#end of hand-written code#pencils down#coding agents

David Heinemeier Hansson · créateur de Ruby on Rails et copropriétaire de 37signals · interrogé par Vikas Shah dans *Thought Economics*.

Economy & Market September 20, 2026 Auto-verified translation

Philippe Corrot, fondateur de Mirakl

Radio interview of **54 minutes** with **Philippe Corrot**, co-founder and co-CEO of **Mirakl**, on *Les Pirates de l'IA* hosted by **Éric Hazan** (RCJ), the season-opening episode broadcast on **September 20, 2026** (volume 10), in three parts separated by musical breaks. **(A)** The career path, dated: **Keyrus** in 1997 (web agency, sold to **Progiware** in 2000), **Mayrev** in fashion accessories, then **Splitgames** — a video-game marketplace — bought by **Fnac** in 2008, whose two partners ran the marketplace for three years before founding **Mirakl** with **Adrien Nussenbaum**. **(B)** The vendor's exposure to what he calls the *"SaaSpocalypse,"* broken down into two mechanisms: **per-seat** pricing, from which Mirakl is exempt since it takes a percentage **on transactions** — *"whether it's an AI buying or a human customer, it makes no difference to us"* — and the rewriting of a piece of software by a model, which he considers unlikely in the short term because *"Mirakl isn't just lines of code"* but an infrastructure connecting nearly **100,000 sellers**. **(C)** The internal transformation, with a method starting from **deliverables** and working back up the chain, the merger of the documentation, support, and training teams, and the **OneHelp** agent: at constant headcount, customer satisfaction **×2** and support users **×10**. **(D)** The forward-looking part, where he answers *"yes"* to the question of a *job apocalypse*, treats **universal basic income** as a question worth asking, and blames French labor law and the lack of a French vision. Caveat set by the guest himself: *"what I'm telling you is true for the next six months."* Continues on the vendor side with [[bain-ai-rule-of-40-headwinds-tailwinds-saas-2026-04]].

#digital marketplace#marketplace#platform model

Philippe Corrot · cofondateur et co-CEO de Mirakl · interrogé par Éric Hazan dans *Les Pirates de l'IA* (RCJ).