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Don’t hire thoughtbot to write code

AI makes code faster and cheaper to produce. Premium consultancies need to offer more: experienced judgment, the right capabilities, and people who help teams solve the right problems and make better decisions.
Ran Craycraft
August 21, 2026
- AI
- Consulting
- Product
- Developers
AI makes creating software faster, but in regulated industries, judgment matters more

AI is accelerating software delivery, but regulated industries face a harder challenge: moving faster without increasing risk. Here’s how teams can balance speed with privacy, security, compliance, and accountability.
Ran Craycraft
August 21, 2026
- AI
- Business
- Product
- Team Scaling
- Developers
- Health Tech
- Fintech
How healthcare tech teams innovate while balancing speed and security

Healthcare can be a tough space for innovation: Speed often feels at odds with the high-compliance environment. How do you find a balance? We asked them in a new research study and sat down with a Merck executive and two of our own developers.
Michelle Taute
August 18, 2026
What founders told us about working with AI tools for startups

AI can help you ship a prototype in a weekend, but it won’t tell you if you’re building the right thing. We talked to founders who use AI tools every day to find out where it actually helps, and where it can quietly hurt you.
Michelle Taute
July 24, 2026
- AI
- Startup
Your vibe coded website is going to get you fined

Vibe coding might get you 80% of the way there. But the other 20% is what really counts. It’s what makes you stand out from AI slop and helps you avoid huge accessibility fines. thoughtbot designers can give you that extra 20%.
Ferdia Kenny
July 3, 2026
AI's "overnight" solution for our flaky tests took two weeks to adopt

We lived with flaky tests for years until Claude found a solution overnight. It only took two weeks to make the solution useful.
Fritz Meissner
June 22, 2026
AI crawlers are inflating your view counts

AI crawlers now make up most of your site’s traffic, and server-side analytics counts every one of them. Your view counts measure scrapers, not readers. Here is how to fix it.
Trésor Bireke
June 16, 2026
- AI
- Rails
- Analytics
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
Copy as Markdown: AI-friendly blog posts

Our blog posts can now be copied as Markdown, so you can hand them to your favourite AI without the HTML cruft. Click, paste, and happy contexting.
Jared Turner
June 3, 2026
- AI
- Markdown
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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