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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
6 key insights from Dublin Tech Summit 2025

Here are 6 key insights I took from Dublin Tech Summit along with 6 cool companies worth checking out!
Ferdia Kenny
June 6, 2025
- Conferences
- Artificial Intelligence
Giant Robots Ep 577: Driving Innovation: Jack Burrows on Cars, Tech, and the Future of Carwow

It’s time to start your engines as Sami talks with Jack Burrows, product director at CarWow, about the tricky world of buying and selling cars.
Sami Birnbaum
June 5, 2025
- Podcast
Building Strong Rails Teams: Join our hiring roundtable

June 18 at 12pm ET - Join thoughtbot CEO Chad Pytel for a candid roundtable on hiring senior Rails developers, with a focus on fairness, speed, and culture add.
Lindsey Christensen
June 5, 2025
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- Rails
Watch where you walk by planning experiments

Developers often follow a plan that assumes that learning is done before they start writing code. This is similar to choosing a destination and then walking with closed eyes. Keep your eyes open by planning experiments instead.
Fritz Meissner
June 5, 2025
Designing for an aging population: Unlocking market opportunities through user research

The longevity market is booming. Are you listening closely enough?
Emily Bahna
June 4, 2025
AI for Business: Implementation strategy

The final blog in our “AI for Business” series in which we look at the rollout of your new AI strategy.
Ferdia Kenny
June 4, 2025
AI meets AgeTech: Where predictive care and digital companions are headed

AI is transforming AgeTech with proactive, deeply human-centered care, supporting audiences through meaningful, intuitive technology. We explore how startups like Maia Care and Calico Care are designing trust-first tools that feel more like friends.
Kelly Gebo
June 3, 2025
Learning Terraform - A hands-on, open source contribution

Discover how to get started with Terraform’s infrastructure-as-code to streamline and simplify your resource deployment.
Fernando Perales, Clarissa Borges & Kate Young
June 3, 2025
- DevOps
- Terraform
- AWS
- Opensearch
Do you really know how to ORDER BY?

The perils of a seemingly harmless ORDER BY clause.
Thiago Araújo Silva
June 2, 2025
- Rails
- SQL
- PostgreSQL
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