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How strategic product design reduces risk before you write code

Common ways projects in regulated industries fail and how thoughtbot designers proactively reduce risk.
Andrew Spencer
March 27, 2026
- Design Sprints
- Process
- AI
- Design
Giant Robots Podcast Ep 606: AI layoffs are BS

Chad, Sami and Will bring a growing issue to the forefront as they discuss whether AI really is to blame for recent industry layoffs.
Chad Pytel, Will Larry & Sami Birnbaum
March 26, 2026
- Podcast
Meet Duck Typer: your new duck typing friend

Keep the beauty of duck typing with no annotations while still catching missing methods, mismatched signatures, and accidental drift across classes.
Thiago Araújo Silva
March 23, 2026
- RSpec
- Minitest
- Testing
- Ruby
- OOP
- Development
I copied a prompt and built a management system in a week

How I used Claude Code to build a GTD-based management system from a borrowed idea, meeting transcripts, and three days of real work.
Rob Whittaker
March 19, 2026
Observability for your LLM-powered apps: OTel Instrumentation for RubyLLM

LLM calls are black boxes in production. Learn how to add structured observability to your RubyLLM-powered app with OpenTelemetry.
Clarissa Borges
March 18, 2026
- Observability
- AI
- Llm
- Rubyllm
- Opentelemetry
- Auditability
The Bike Shed Ep 498: Season 2 Recap

Our hosts come together to wrap up season 2 and share some of their highlights along the way.
Joël Quenneville, Sally Hall & Aji Slater
March 17, 2026
- Podcast
Introducing Test Budget: a linter for test performance

Your test suite didn’t get slow all at once. It won’t get fast all at once either. Start by making sure it stops getting worse.
Matheus Richard
March 17, 2026
How to launch a Lovable MVP in 2026

AI tools can spin up polished apps in a weekend, but speed makes it easier than ever to build the wrong thing. Here’s how to turn a “Lovable MVP” prototype into a real product that delivers value.
Ran Craycraft
March 16, 2026
The Bike Shed Ep 497: Diagrams we love

Aji and Joël get into a flow as they discuss the different diagrams that help guide their thought processes when working.
Joël Quenneville and Aji Slater
March 10, 2026
- Podcast
Claude Skill incoming! Generating Postman collections with AI

When speed matters more than perfection, API documentation can quickly become a bottleneck. In this post, I share how we used thoughtbot’s Claude Skill to generate Postman collections directly from a Rails codebase.
Sami Birnbaum
March 9, 2026
- Artificial Intelligence
- Rails
- Claude
- AI
- Development
- API
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