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I think there is a much-better-than-merely-non-zero chance that the rise of coding agents will also mean a rails renaissance. All of the complexity identified i
by abtinf 1y ago
I think there is a much-better-than-merely-non-zero chance that the rise of coding agents will also mean a rails renaissance. All of the complexity identified in the article really gets in the way of LLMs.
- Jolter 1y agoIt’s also the case that tried and true technologies work best for LLMs, since they have much more training on them.
- abtinf 1y agoRails “convention over configuration” approach is probably also more LLM friendly. Convention can be trained into the model itself, whereas configuration takes up precious context.
- steve_gh 1y agoI have definitely found this. A few months ago I tested Claude coding a web task in Rails vs Flask. Claude did much better with Rails - I think the opinionated Rails conventions helped the AI. However, Claude didn't complete the ask in Rails. A couple of weeks ago I revisited a similar task with one of the latest AIs. It sailed through it in Rails (didn't try Flask).
- kristianc 1y agoSo does dynamic typing to be fair.
- yxhuvud 1y agoThe complexity also gets in the way of junior developers but that hasn't stopped anyone yet.