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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
Giant Robots Podcast Ep 598: Animals and AI Accounting with Sam Landsberg

Sami talks with Sam Landsberg, head of sales at Light, about the wide world of fintech and how they’re working to simplify accounting software for businesses big and small.
Sami Birnbaum
December 11, 2025
- Podcast
Turn Any Idea Into a Validated MVP

A step-by-step path to validate your idea fast by defining the problem, testing assumptions, prototyping the critical flow, and shaping a focused MVP you can learn from.
Moses Amama
December 9, 2025
You cannot not lead

Whether you’re aware of it or not, your actions and non-actions impact the people around you. Everything sends a message. Everything communicates. Everything is leading.
Svenja Schäfer
November 27, 2025
- People Management
- Leadership
Querying encrypted data in Rails using Deterministic Encryption

Encrypting data is easy — querying it isn’t. Rails’ deterministic encryption makes encrypted fields both searchable and secure.
Trésor Bireke
November 25, 2025
Git 3.0 will use main as the default branch

A quiet but important milestone for Git.
Justin Toniazzo
November 24, 2025
- Development
- Git
- News
We're a fully-remote company. Why host concurrent In-Person and Remote Summits?

We ran our in-person Amsterdam Summit and Remote Summit at the same time in October. A ton of effort. Culturally priceless.
Stephanie Kuroda
November 21, 2025
- Operations
- Remote
- Leadership
- Inclusion
- Values
- Culture
Giant Robots Podcast Ep 597: Say Yes with Nick Merwin

Chad talks with developer and guitarist Nick Merwin about the challenges of balancing his career in development with his life as a musician.
Chad Pytel
November 20, 2025
- Podcast
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
Presenting at tiny ruby on Friday, November 21, 2025!

Booleans and ractors on stage in Helsinki.
Louis Antonopoulos and Sarah Lima
November 19, 2025
- Ruby
- Conferences
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