As a long-time professional RoR developer, I disagree with the article's premise. AI seems like the last nail in the coffin for an easy, slow-evolving, highly

As a long-time professional RoR developer, I disagree with the article's premise. AI seems like the last nail in the coffin for an easy, slow-evolving, highly standardized ecosystem like Rails'. In short, using Rails was already pretty easy pre-AI, now it's just too easy. That might be nice for misc purposes like prototyping something, or teaching people how to make webapps, but for all other purposes it makes us disposable peons. Even in better times than 2022-24, I expect Rails salaries not to grow particularly. I don't expect it to die either - probably it will be not unlike PHP: easy, pretty nice, but ultimately a voluntary choice to have a lower salary. I thank Ruby/Rails for various aspects that have made my career better, but it's wiser to move on to something more niche and that doesn't pretend we're still living in 2008.