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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
Is AI ruining my brain?

Has using AI at work made me worse at other things in my life?
Sally Hall
September 4, 2026
- AI
- Continuous Improvement
GPT and Claude go to heraldry school

I photographed a mystery coat of arms on vacation and asked a handful of AI models to identify it. Their reasoning traces show the difference between a model that backtracks and one that doubles down.
Joël Quenneville
August 26, 2026
- Llm
- Claude
- Experiments
- Artificial Intelligence
- AI
- Fun
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
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