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  1. Developing a voice AI app in Rails for drive-through ordering

    In this post we will explore the code for an AI assistant in our application.

    Jose Blanco
    May 6, 2025
    • Artificial Intelligence
    • Rails
    • Openai
    • Action Cable
    • Websocket
    • Realtime
    • AI
  2. AI for Business: AI and cognitive insight

    The basics on how to leverage Cognitive Insights and AI to deliver value for your customers.

    Ferdia Kenny
    April 30, 2025
    • Product Design
    • Product Management
    • Product
    • Artificial Intelligence
    • AI
  3. AI in Focus: Connecting DeepSeek to Rails

    Experimenting with a locally running version of the DeepSeek R1 LLM model in a real Rails app using Ollama and ruby-openai.

    Chad Pytel and Kate Young
    April 24, 2025
    • AI
    • Ethics
    • Product
    • Language Models
    • Ollama
    • Rails
    • Llm
    • Large Language Models
  4. AI for Business: AI and automation

    The basics on how to leverage automation and AI to deliver value for your customers.

    Ferdia Kenny
    April 23, 2025
    • Product
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    • Artificial Intelligence
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  5. Comparing development AI tools

    Cursor, GitHub Copilot and Windsurf. Are all of them the same?

    Jose Blanco
    April 18, 2025
    • Development
    • AI
    • Artificial Intelligence
  6. AI for Business: How to harness AI

    How and where to add AI to your processes to digitally transform your business.

    Ferdia Kenny
    April 16, 2025
    • Product
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    • Artificial Intelligence
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  7. AI for Business: A history of Artificial Intelligence

    To understand where AI might be headed, we should first revisit the past to see where it has come from and how it got here.

    Ferdia Kenny
    April 9, 2025
    • Product
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    • Artificial Intelligence
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  8. Going beyond AI prototyping: Lessons from SXSW

    Learn how to turn AI prototypes into real product value. Insights from SXSW 2025 on managing AI tools, solving the last-mile problem, and building scalable AI features.

    Lindsey Christensen
    April 8, 2025
    • AI
    • Prototyping
    • Artificial Intelligence
  9. Designing better organizations enabled by AI: Lessons from SXSW

    SXSW 2025 was all about real-world AI implementations. Here are some examples and insights around team collaboration, feedback systems, and open source governance.

    Lindsey Christensen
    April 6, 2025
    • AI
    • Artificial Intelligence
  10. How to use ngrok and Ollama to access a local LLM remotely

    Use ngrok to securely expose your local Ollama instance to the internet, making it accessible from anywhere.

    Jose Blanco
    March 11, 2025
    • Artificial Intelligence
    • Ollama
    • Ngrok
    • Llm
    • AI
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