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  1. A new Giant Robots Podcast co-host

    Sami Birnbaum joins our Giant Robots Smashing into other Giant Robots podcast as a regular co-host alongside Will Larry and Chad Pytel.

    Chad Pytel
    December 9, 2024
    • News
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  2. Recommending blog posts with artificial intelligence

    We’ve reimplemented our blog’s related article recommendation system using modern artificial intelligence techniques. The system is cheaper, more performant, and produces better results.

    Chad Pytel
    November 21, 2024
    • Artificial Intelligence
    • Machine Learning
    • Development
    • News
  3. Ruby on Rails is great for AI

    Don’t over-engineer. While there are some AI tasks that are better suited for Python, using a Ruby gem and some API calls will do the job for most cases.

    Chad Pytel
    August 8, 2024
    • Rails
    • Artificial Intelligence
  4. New in our Playbook: AI Ethics Guide

    We’ve created a guide to help ensure our values are applied to the Artificial Intelligence solutions we build.

    Chad Pytel
    June 13, 2024
    • Artificial Intelligence
    • Playbook
  5. Ruby Science on the Web and Updated to Rails 7

    We’ve updated Ruby Science, the reference for creating fantastic Rails applications, and it’s now available on the web in addition to EPUB and PDF.

    Chad Pytel
    October 19, 2023
    • Ruby
    • Ruby On Rails
    • Books
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  6. Running old Ruby versions on Apple Silicon by fully emulating x86-64

    I’ve been upgrading an old Rails 3.2 app and Ruby 2.0 doesn’t work on Apple Silicon. I solved it with full virtualization of x86-64.

    Chad Pytel
    October 4, 2023
    • Ruby
    • Development
  7. Using Machine Learning to Answer Questions from Internal Documentation

    We have a lot of internal and external documentation about how we do things at thoughtbot. I explored how we could make ChatGPT able to answer people’s questions using this documentation. This articles shows how to do it and the results.

    Chad Pytel
    July 4, 2023
    • Artificial Intelligence
    • Machine Learning
  8. 🎉 thoughtbot20: A 20th Anniversary eBook

    In celebration of our 20th Anniversary, we’ve selected 20 amazing articles from our blog and compiled them into a beautiful 78-page PDF book.

    Chad Pytel
    June 6, 2023
    • thoughtbot20
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  9. 🎉 thoughtbot20: Happy 20th Anniversary, thoughtbot!

    Today is thoughtbot’s 20th Anniversary! Thank you for everything, and we hope you’ll celebrate with us.

    Chad Pytel and Stephanie Kuroda
    June 2, 2023
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  10. Our macOS setup script, Laptop, adds official support for Ventura

    We’ve just pushed a new release of our macOS setup script, Laptop, which adds official support for macOS Ventura and fixes a few other issues.

    Chad Pytel
    December 2, 2022
    • News
    • Laptop
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