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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
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
How to build and scale high-performing engineering teams - virtual event

Join us May 7 for a live session with our CEO Chad Pytel as he shares lessons from two decades of helping tech leaders build high-performing teams and opens the floor for conversation with peers navigating similar challenges.
Lindsey Christensen
April 22, 2025
- News
- Events
The Bike Shed Ep 460: Programer Productivity with Valerie Burzynski

Start taking notes in this episode as Joël and Valerie discuss the different ways in which they structure their note taking systems to improve their workflows.
Joël Quenneville
April 22, 2025
- Podcast
Between immutability and memoization, you might have to choose

It is not always possible to have frozen AND performant objects in Ruby.
Rémy Hannequin
April 22, 2025
- Ruby
- Performance
Making the case for Rails monoliths over microservices

A cautionary tale of a CTO and microservices. Here are some considerations that should be made before splitting a Rails monolith.
Sara Jackson
April 21, 2025
Comparing development AI tools

Cursor, GitHub Copilot and Windsurf. Are all of them the same?
Jose Blanco
April 18, 2025
Giant Robots Ep 570: Rolling for Initiative with Chad, Will and Sami

Chad, Will and Sami discuss life outside of thoughtbot and the hobbies that occupy them in their down time.
Chad Pytel, Will Larry & Sami Birnbaum
April 17, 2025
- Podcast
Faster feedback loops with Rails Runner

Don’t waste one more second coding in the Rails console.
Steve Polito
April 17, 2025
- Rails
- Web
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
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