# On Rails -- Joanna Wang: Code Is Cheap Now; Developers Still Valuable

DevFeed: [On Rails -- Joanna Wang: Code Is Cheap Now; Developers Still Valuable](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/on-rails-joanna-wang-code-is-cheap-now-developers-still-valuable-3559.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://rubyonrails.org/2026/8/18/on-rails-joanna-wang-sixfold>)

Author: Rails Foundation

Published: 2026-08-18T00:00:00Z

Content type: article

Language: en

Sources: [Ruby on Rails: Compress the complexity of modern web apps](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/ruby-on-rails-compress-the-complexity-of-modern-web-apps.md>)

Topics: [AI-assisted coding](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/ai-assisted-coding.md>), [AI Bots](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/ai-bots.md>)

Tags: [agent](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/agent.md>), [agentic](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/agentic.md>), [ai](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/ai.md>), [code](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/code.md>), [data](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/data.md>), [developers](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/developers.md>), [go](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/go.md>), [java](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/java.md>), [node](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/node.md>), [orchestration](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/orchestration.md>), [podcast](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/podcast.md>), [python](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/python.md>), [ruby](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/ruby.md>), [software](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/software.md>), [tools](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/tools.md>)

## AI overview

A podcast episode with Joanna Wang of Sixfold about AI underwriting tools, workflow orchestration, agentic development, and the continuing value of developers.

## Source excerpt

Joanna Wang is a senior software engineer at Sixfold, where the team builds AI underwriting tools that help insurance companies gather data and assess risk. She came to Ruby on Rails after working across Java, Go, Python, and Node. Robby and Joanna get into why the homegrown orchestration they built on state machines and callbacks turned brittle, what moving to Hatchet changed, and the tradeoffs of leaning on a gem that is no longer maintained. They also talk about what happened when the team went fully agentic, and why Rails magic is easier to understand when an agent can trace it for you.