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  1. 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
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    • Ollama
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  2. A Product Manager's guide to 2025

    A landscape founded by people who continuously push boundaries and move forward, it’s never a dull year in the realms of Product Management. In 2025, expect change, technological advancements, shifting consumer expectations, and new market dynamics.

    Bethan Ashley
    January 23, 2025
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  3. Ethical AI for Product Management

    Think AI can’t be ethical? Think again! Check out the cheat code for creating innovative, user-trusting, privacy-first products. Ready to try the ®REPEATS method? 🔍💻

    Bethan Ashley
    November 8, 2024
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  4. DEI: Speaking Up About Our Values

    Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) is part of thoughtbot’s core values. As we encounter critiques of these principles, it is important to explain why we do what we do and why it sets us apart from toxic tech culture that still lives true today.

    Christopher Kuttruff, Mina Slater & Sally Hall
    December 1, 2022
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  5. I Work in Politics

    A review of the ethics of thoughtbot.

    Mike Burns
    December 12, 2017
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