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The maintainer of several Ruby gems has archived their source code and ended active development, citing Ruby’s growing alignment with large language model-assisted programming. The author says the gems were created during an era when Ruby emphasized programmer happiness, creativity, and human-centered design, reflecting statements by Ruby creator Yukihiro “Matz” Matsumoto in 2000 and 2019. The author also criticizes Rails’ governance and says Rails’ leading figure is increasingly using LLM agents to generate Rust applications. They say Ruby itself is now substantially developed with LLM agents and cite Matz’s recent framing of Ruby as a programming language for the AI age. According to the author, Matz has said LLMs need to consume more high-quality human-written Ruby code to generate Ruby effectively. The author says they no longer want to contribute code to a shared software ecosystem that they believe corporations use as training material for AI systems. They characterize AI-generated code as polluting that ecosystem and direct users seeking changes to use AI agents instead of expecting further maintenance from them.