DHH: Future of Programming, AI, Ruby on Rails, Productivity & Parenting | Lex Fridman Podcast #474

No one anywhere who's serious believes that Cookie banners does anything good for anyone. Yet, we've been unable to get rid of it . This is the thing that really gets me about cookie banners, too . It's not just the EU. It's the entire world . You can't hide from cookie banners anywhere on this planet . If you go to goddamn Mars on one of Elon's rockets and you try to access a web page, you'll still see a cookie banner . No one in the universe is safe from this nonsense . It sometimes feels like we're barely better off . Like web pages aren't that different from what they were in the late 90s, early 2000s. They're still just forms. They still just write to databases . A lot of people, I think, are very uncomfortable with the fact that they are essentially CRUD monkeys . They just make systems that create, read, update, or delete rows in a database. And they have to compensate for that existential dread by over complicating things . That's a huge part of the satisfaction of driving a race car is driving it at the edge of adhesion together with his co-author Jason Frerieded of four books rework remote getting real and it doesn't have to be crazy at work . And on top of that, he's also a race car driver , including being a class winner at the legendary 24-hour lemon race . This is the Lex Rubin podcast . To support it, please check out our sponsors in the description and consider subscribing to this channel . And now, dear friends, here's DH . For someone who became a legendary programmer , you officially got into programming late in life . And I guess that's because uh you tried to learn how to program a few times and you failed. So can you tell me the uh the full story, the saga of your failures to learn programming ? Was Commodore 64 involved