The Ruby AI Podcast
The Ruby AI Podcast explores the intersection of Ruby programming and artificial intelligence, featuring expert discussions, innovative projects, and practical insights. Join us as we interview industry leaders and developers to uncover how Ruby is shaping the future of AI.
The Ruby AI Podcast
Roasting Ruby AI Workflows with Obie Fernandez
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Valentino Stoll, Joe Leo
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Season 1
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Episode 4
Ruby legend Obie Fernandez joins hosts Valentino Stoll and Joe Leo to unveil Roast—the new open-source Ruby framework for declaring reliable AI workflows—and celebrate the 1.0 release of its engine library, Ray. The trio dig into agent swarms, prompt-engineering best practices, code-base refactors, and why unleashing creativity matters more than ever in an AI-driven future."
Show Notes
- Obie’s book — https://leanpub.com/patterns-of-application-development-using-ai
- Roast (GitHub) — https://github.com/Shopify/roast
- Roast (intro post) — https://shopify.engineering/introducing-roast
- Raix (core library) — https://github.com/OlympiaAI/raix
- Raix for Rails — https://github.com/OlympiaAI/raix-rails
- Claude Swarm (multi-agent YAML swarms) — https://github.com/parruda/claude-swarm
- Claude Squad https://github.com/smtg-ai/claude-squad
- Claude Code (agentic coding tool) — https://www.anthropic.com/claude-code
- Claude Opus (model family) — https://www.anthropic.com/claude
- “Software 3.0” (Karpathy talk) — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LCEmiRjPEtQ
- Suno (AI music) — https://suno.com/
- Olympia (AI team platform) — https://olympia.chat/
- “The Bitter Lesson” (R. Sutton) — https://www.incompleteideas.net/IncIdeas/BitterLesson.html
- POODR (Sandi Metz) — https://www.poodr.com/
- Refactoring (Martin Fowler) — https://martinfowler.com/books/refactoring.html
- Clean Code (R.C. Martin) — https://www.informit.com/store/clean-code-a-handbook-of-agile-software-craftsmanship-9780135398579
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