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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
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
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
How to choose and implement an LLM for your healthcare product

Choosing and implementing the right large language model for healthcare requires balancing security, economics, and inevitable hallucinations. Here’s what you need to know before integrating AI into your product.
Richard Newman and Michelle Taute
February 27, 2026
- Health Tech
- AI
- Llm
Claude Code skills: Automating FDA-required documentation for software as a medical device

Generating and maintaining FDA-required documentation for software as a medical device can be tedious and time-consuming. We built a Claude Code skill to automate documentation for 510(k) submissions.
Damian Galarza, Chad Pytel & Michelle Taute
February 25, 2026
- Claude
- AI
- Health Tech
Going beyond vibe coding with ReadySetGo

Introducing ReadySetGo. An AI application generator that creates first versions of products, built in Rails, to thoughtbot’s best practices. Not throwaway, vibe-coded prototypes. Real foundations that can be built upon.
Chad Pytel
February 19, 2026
- News
- Readysetgo
- AI
Claude Code: Production ready code in a two-week sprint

AI-generated code doesn’t have to be throwaway code. Here’s how we used Claude Code to build a fully-tested, production-quality Rails prototype in two weeks, complete with a robust test suite, clean commits, and code we were proud to have written.
Chad Pytel, Louis Antonopoulos & Michelle Taute
February 9, 2026
- AI
- Prototyping
- Rails
Code audits in the days of AI - A new Claude skill

Run a code audit on your Rails app using thoughtbot’s best practices with this new Claude skill.
Jose Blanco
January 20, 2026
Building programmable QA with AI

What’s one of the biggest challenges with using AI for QA? It’s the lack of programmability. We set out to find a solution by pairing Playwright MCP with several different LLM models. Find out where we landed.
Chad Pytel, Clarissa Borges & Michelle Taute
January 14, 2026
- AI
- Automation
- Llm
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