The Ruby AI Podcast

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 ...

Send us Fan Mail Secretly attacking the very community you sponsor is the kind of story that makes you stop and listen twice. In May, OpenAI's AI agents exploited known vulnerabilities in RubyGems, and what makes this especially troubling is that OpenAI was already aware of those vulnerabilities before the attack happened. Valentino Stoll and Joe Leo unpack this incident alongside Aaron Patterson's article detailing the breach. The hosts question whether OpenAI failed to connect the attack t...

Send us Fan Mail Quietly, a new kind of conference is reshaping how the Ruby community gathers, and it started with one person's frustration with expensive, sponsor-dependent events. Jim Remsik joined Valentino Stoll and Joe Leo to talk about XORuby, the decentralized single-day conference format he created after organizing Madison Ruby for twelve years. What makes XORuby genuinely different is its commitment to accessibility. Tickets are capped at $100, every attendee receives a $25 lunch vo...

Send us Fan Mail The Ruby AI Podcast is going live weekly. Joe Leo and Valentino Stoll put themselves on the clock to work through what’s happening across Ruby, AI, security, and open source, with very little time to prepare and plenty of room to disagree. DHH’s Omarchy has a root escalation bug. OpenAI says Astra can find and exploit real zero-days. Claude Code can recognize that it’s been compromised, but its own safety system may stop it from cleaning up. Joe and Valentino talk about what ...