Markus Schirp presents a mental model of three thresholds (ecosystem, automation, contribution) as dots thrown at a dartboard, arguing that discipline doesn't scale and only automation narrows the dangerous gap where bugs reach production. He frames LLMs as amplifiers that simply throw more dots, making Ruby's low ecosystem threshold especially costly and calling for more investment in tooling like Mutant, Sorbet/RBS, and property-based testing.
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