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DHH: Future of Programming, AI, Ruby on Rails, Productivity & Parenting | Lex Fridman Podcast (opens in new tab)
David Heinemeier Hansson (aka DHH) is a legendary programmer, creator of Ruby on Rails, co-owner & CTO of 37signals that created Basecamp, HEY, & ONCE, and is a NYT-best-selling author (with Jason Fried) of 4 books: REWORK, REMOTE, Getting Real, and It Doesn't Have To Be Crazy At Work. He is also a race car driver, including a class-winning performance at the 24 hour Le Mans race.
Harness engineering: leveraging Codex in an agent-first world (opens in new tab)
Over the past five months, our team has been running an experiment: building and shipping an internal beta of a software product with 0 lines of manually-written code.
Scaling PostgreSQL to power 800 million ChatGPT users (opens in new tab)
For years, PostgreSQL has been one of the most critical, under-the-hood data systems powering core products like ChatGPT and OpenAI’s API. As our user base grows rapidly, the demands on our databases have increased exponentially, too. Over the past year, our PostgreSQL load has grown by more than 10x, and it continues to rise quickly.