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PII filtering for RubyLLM with Top Secret

Automatically filter sensitive information from your RubyLLM conversations before it reaches third-party providers.
Steve Polito
April 17, 2026
AI in Focus: A new Claude Skill for Rails code audits

Learn what happened when Chad installed the open source rails-audit-thoughtbot Claude skill, ran it on thoughtbot’s decade-old internal Hub app, and walked through hits, misses, and how we’d tighten the skill over time.
Chad Pytel and Kate Young
April 13, 2026
Sixty-six commits and the commands that didn't survive

In week two of building a management system with Claude Code, I created fifteen commands in a day. By the end of the week, I’d deleted three of them.
Rob Whittaker
April 8, 2026
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
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
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Your chat bot needs a better rate limit strategy

Don’t let one ambitious user trigger a denial of service.
Steve Polito
March 2, 2026
- Rails
- Web
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- Artificial Intelligence
- Llm
- Chat Bot
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
How to review AI generated PRs

Tips from an AI skeptic for working with a team which uses AI a lot.
Justin Toniazzo
December 12, 2025
- Artificial Intelligence
AI in Focus: Pair programming with AI

Trying to optimize your AI coding workflow? One size doesn’t fit all. During an AI pair programming session, we discovered some insights about control, context and trust that might help you sharpen your own process.
Chad Pytel, Clarissa Borges & Michelle Taute
November 20, 2025
- Artificial Intelligence
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
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