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asdffdasy • today at 5:24 PM • 2 replies • view on HN

people will say dhh is being cancelled etc. but he always had very bad political takes.

now, he is fully in musk orbit, so i expect him to be even more polarizing when speaking publicly.

and ultimately, musk gave him a couple millions to sell grok (starting with full integration into his arch install script he calls a distro).

so, if you follow the money, it is pretty clear he is "just doing his (grok salesman) job"


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_doctor_love • today at 5:30 PM

> people will say dhh is being cancelled etc. but he always had very bad political takes.

Exactly this. I disembarked the DHH train way back in the CouchDB "perform like a pr0n star" scandal days. (If you don't know what this is, look up the article Smut on Rails by Martin Fowler)

shevy-java • today at 5:28 PM

> if you follow the money, it is pretty clear he is "just doing his (grok salesman) job"

Agreed. DHH is a promo-businessman now - may have always been that way, but it is very obvious to everyone now.

I think DHH needs to leave the ruby community. And the rails community as well.