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Notes On Work - by Caleb Porzio · Laravel Ecosystem · September 2026
Porzio, who makes the Livewire and Flux UI libraries, on people who say nobody should read the code anymore. He had just spent two weeks designing a card component for Flux by hand, because AI couldn't get it right.
All right, we got a lot of thoughts to get out here. Yesterday was Rails World, and DHH apparently gave a keynote about the end of the world. No, the end of Rails, the future of the world, the future, not about the end. I didn't watch the whole thing, and I'm going to today, so I don't want to talk about it too much because I am ill-informed. But I watched the beginning, and he kind of, you know, he makes a lot of sense. Like, he's painting this picture, funny metaphor I chose or analogy that he's talking about painting pictures, how people used to paint portraits for hundreds of years and iterate on that skill. And then, like, kind of overnight, it photographed just took their job away, you know, not overnight, but quickly. And then they had, if they want to stay a painter, they have to paint for art instead of portraiture, you know, for money to serve the purpose of somebody having their portrait encoded in history. Now, any family…