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Who's reading the code your AI writes?

AI makes you at least 30% faster on new code and 10% faster on old code. It also makes it easier to ship bugs, security flaws, and data leaks before anyone notices.
Ran Craycraft
October 23, 2026
- AI
- Security
- Development
- News
A pragmatic guide to AI-assisted development

Learn how I use AI-assisted development to understand, ship, and verify a real fix.
Steve Polito
October 19, 2026
- Agents
- AI
- Process
- Development
What causes AI fatigue for engineers and how to ease the strain

AI fatigue is setting in for engineering teams. Our research shows most feel pressure to assess every AI trend, struggle to evaluate tools, and wrestle with evaluating AI-generated code. Here’s some practical advice for navigating the pain points.
Richard Newman and Michelle Taute
October 6, 2026
- Development
- AI
thoughtbot's agent skills

Announcing some new skills for Claude and other coding agents to help with development, design, and consulting.
Dave Iverson
September 21, 2026
- Agents
- Claude
- Open Source
- AI
- Tools
- Development
5 easy, actionable tips for software development in healthcare

Big-picture thinking is great, but sometimes you just want tactics you can use today. Here are five quick tips from our recent healthcare security panel, covering everything from handling vendor outages to building your own AI-powered security scanner.
Michelle Taute
September 10, 2026
- Health Tech
- AI
- Compliance
- Development
Announcing importmap-update: automated dependency updates for importmap-rails

Dependabot keeps your gems current, but it doesn’t know about the JavaScript packages pinned in your Rails importmap. We’re releasing a GitHub Action that opens pull requests for the ones that are outdated or vulnerable.
Neil Carvalho
September 9, 2026
Migrating to native stack navigation, with a surprise from iOS 26

We moved our React Native app from the JavaScript stack to the native stack and suddenly inherited Liquid Glass, and a clipped logo.
Jose Blanco
July 13, 2026
How I Built a Chrome Extension Wrapper (and Everything That Tried to Stop Me)

Sharing my experience building a Chrome extension wrapper around a Rails app: the hard-won expertise, the rabbit holes, and everything I’d do differently.
Valeria Graffeo
June 9, 2026
Enforcing Your Ruby Style Guide on AI-Generated Code

A Rails-flavored guide to wrapping Claude Code in the checks, conventions, and feedback loops that make agent output more trustworthy.
Daniel Garcia
June 8, 2026
The Four Signals of AI Observability

Treat your AI feature like a software you can watch, not a model you hope works.
Matheus Sales
June 1, 2026
- AI
- Llm
- Observability
- Development
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