It is quite irrelevant to examine political opinions or if the conference turned into a Jonestown cult etc.
The only thing that matters in AI is to examine the flow of money. DHH is a Shopify board member and surely got Shopify stock.
Additionally, his Omarchy is sponsored by the following AI boosters (https://omarchy.org/patrons/):
- Meta Superintelligence Labs
- DigitalOcean
- Alibaba Cloud
- Shopify (Tobi Lütke)
- Stripe (Collison)
- Dell (Dell)
- Cloudflare (Prince)
- Dropbox (Houston)
- OpenClaw (Steinberger)
- Coinbase (Armstrong)
https://lexfridman.com/sponsors/ep501-sb
His future is tied to the AI narrative and he sells out stuff he no longer needs like RoR. Anything he says is an advertisement.