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The best minutes of the longest talks.
AI, science and the people building it, cut from conversations hours long.
Full clips: youtube.com/@SursumTalks
Why take an OS install from three minutes down to nine seconds? DHH borrows Mitchell Hashimoto's answer: excellence needs no justification.
Rails World keynote: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vDjW_dRyKXY&t=3026s

#ai #rails #programming
October 9, 2026 at 5:12 PM
DHH has always hated reading Rust. Now agents write it, and he never has to look.
From the Rails World keynote: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vDjW_dRyKXY&t=1798s

#ai #rust #programming
October 9, 2026 at 1:12 PM
DRY built Rails. Now its creator says abstractions made so humans wouldn't repeat themselves become choke points once agents write the code.
DHH at Rails World: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vDjW_dRyKXY&t=2583s

#ai #rails #programming
October 8, 2026 at 9:12 PM
How many developers still code by hand?
A year after saying the joy was typing it himself, DHH asks a room of Rails developers. About five hands go up.
From the Rails World keynote: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vDjW_dRyKXY&t=1306s

#ai #rails #programming
October 8, 2026 at 5:12 PM
The junk food work trap.
Anthropic co-founder Jack Clark on how he splits his own day with AI, and the risk he sees for everyone else.
From The Ezra Klein Show: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lIJelwO8yHQ&t=1403s

#ai #anthropic #work
October 8, 2026 at 1:12 PM
Be five years ahead of your time, not fifty.
Demis Hassabis on what his 1990s game studio taught him before DeepMind.
From Sequoia Capital's AI Ascent: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AFpeWo1GTeg&t=213s

#ai #deepmind #demishassabis
October 7, 2026 at 11:50 PM