The Ruby AI Podcast

Send us Fan Mail Surprisingly, setting up autonomous AI agents can actually create more management overhead, not less. That's exactly what Joe Leo discovered after deploying agents using virtual machines and Tailscale, and it opens up a fascinating conversation about where AI is really taking us. In this episode, Valentino Stoll and Joe Leo cover a lot of ground. The FTC has sent subpoenas to both OpenAI and Anthropic, demanding extensive documents and possibly executive testimony. FTC Chair...

Send us Fan Mail Rarely does a single episode pack in so much ground-level Ruby community insight, but this one covers everything from security team announcements to the ethics of AI voter targeting. Valentino Stoll has just joined the RubyGems security on-call team, a move he describes as choosing active contribution over passive observation. Joe Leo praises the infrastructure built by Colby Swandale and the Ruby Central team, noting their runbooks and impressively low downtime history. The...

Send us Fan Mail What happens when a conference talk becomes dangerously obsolete just one week before showtime? That urgent pivot tells you everything about the pace of modern security work in the Ruby ecosystem. Mike Dalessio, newly inducted Rails core team member, joins Joe Leo for a conversation that is genuinely packed and genuinely important. Mike's path to the core team runs directly through his maintenance work at 37signals, where his security-focused tooling helped Rails handle the ...

Send us Fan Mail We tackle one of the most pressing tensions in modern development: what happens when AI generates code but no one truly understands it? The hosts dig into some genuinely thorny questions about where human responsibility ends and AI capability begins, and the conversation gets heated in the best way. From Rails World to Rust rewrites, this episode covers a lot of ground. DHH's case for AI code generation sits in direct contrast to Aaron Patterson's call to actually read your ...

Send us Fan Mail "Programming isn't dying, it's evolving." That idea sits at the heart of this conversation recorded live from the Rails World conference, where Obie Fernandez joined the Buzzsprout studio to push back on DHH's keynote claim that programming is dead. Rather than panic, both speakers see this moment as another step up the abstraction ladder, similar to how developers once moved from assembly to compiled languages. Historically, people have consistently underestimated the need ...