I no longer care to work on any Ruby gems so I've archived all my repositories
A software developer has archived their Ruby gem repositories, citing disillusionment with the current state of the Ruby ecosystem. The author expresses frustration over the influence of LLMs on code development and the controversial leadership within the Rails community.
Why it matters
It highlights a growing tension in open-source communities regarding the impact of AI-generated code and the ethical alignment of project maintainers.
I’ve decided to archive the source code of my Ruby gems to make it clear that I’m no longer working on them; I’ve written this post to link from them in order to explain why.
In an article published in 2000 , Yukihiro Matsumoto (a.k.a. “Matz”), designer of Ruby, wrote,
For me, the purpose of life is, at least partly, to have joy. Programmers often feel joy when they can concentrate on the creative side of programming, so Ruby is designed to make programmers happy.
And as recently as a 2019 interview , he said,
I designed Ruby for humans, not for machines.
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