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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
- Development
- Artificial Intelligence
- Llm
- Chat Bot
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
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
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
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
Building a Rails Feature with AI and Active Job

Exploring how structured function calls to an LLM can replace a dedicated CRM enrichment service in thoughtbot’s internal Rails app.
Chad Pytel and Kate Young
June 9, 2025
- AI
- Rails
- TDD
- Language Models
- Llm
- Large Language Models
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
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
- Development
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