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12 Jul 2025 Lex Fridman Podcast #474 – DHH: Future of Programming, AI, Ruby on Rails, Productivity & Parenting
“I care about the abstraction layer that really floats well with web applications and business logic.”
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…Yeah. And that’s my problem too. I don’t care as much about these low-level problems in computer science. I care about the high-level. I care about writing software. I care about the abstraction layer that really floats well with web applications and business logic. And I’ve come to accept that about myself, even though, as we talked about, when I was a kid, I really wanted to become a games programmer. And then I saw what it took to write a collision-detection engine, and I go like, “Yeah, that’s not me at all.” I’m never going to be into vector matrix manipulation or any of that stuff. It’s way too much math. And I’m more of a writing person than of a math person. I mean, just in the way you were speaking today, you have a poetic, literary approach to programming.…
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