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Code Audits in the Days of AI

Run a code audit on your Rails app using thoughtbot’s best practices.
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
Rapid prototyping with Claude Code: How we transformed our design sprint process

We’ve been running product design sprints for over a decade. Now Claude and Claude Code are helping us prototype faster than ever—without sacrificing quality. Here’s how we built a working prototype in hours, not days.
Chad Pytel, Kevin Kwon & Michelle Taute
January 13, 2026
Prevent the Robocalypse with Claude Code and TDD

Write tests first or watch Claude blow everything up. Your choice.
Louis Antonopoulos
January 12, 2026
- Ruby
- Rails
- AI
- Llm
ChatGPT agent: Experimenting with QA automation

Doing manual QA can be slow and tedious, but can ChatGPT agent handle real product QA? We ran a few experiments checking FrontrowMD widgets across sample web pages and discovered a lot of potential—plus a few pitfalls.
Chad Pytel, Michelle Taute & Yaser Mahmoud
January 6, 2026
- AI
- Automation
How to use LLMs without driving your team mad

Three AI anti-patterns that consistently frustrate development teams, and how to avoid them.
Jimmy Thigpen
November 17, 2025
thoughtbot at Just Product 2025

Insights from the 2025 Just Product conference - from slowing down under pressure, to experimenting with AI and vibecoding - and what this all means for product teams and leaders.
Bethan Ashley
November 10, 2025
Lessons from using AI in Discovery

We tested multiple AI tools for synthesizing discovery output and found the best insights come when machines find the patterns and humans connect the dots.
Dawn Delatte, Fatima Burke & Kevin Kwon
September 15, 2025
AI in Focus: Refactoring Rails with AI tools

Exploring how Github Copilot can help identify and fix Ruby on Rails AntiPatterns, and the challenges of using AI for complex refactoring tasks.
Chad Pytel, Sarah Lima & Kate Young
July 22, 2025
Can AI rebuild a Rails page in Next.js? We tried it

A recap of our live stream experiment where we used Cursor to rebuild a Rails page in Next.js.
Jimmy Thigpen
June 12, 2025
- Experiments
- AI
- NextJS
- Ruby On Rails
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