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.
Episodes
10 episodes
The TLDR of AI Dev: Real Workflows with Justin Searls
In this episode of the Ruby AI Podcast, co-hosts Valentino Stoll and Joe Leo engage in a lively discussion with guest Justin Searls. They explore the evolving landscape of software development with agentic AI tools, comparing traditional agile ...
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Episode 9
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55:26
Real-World Ruby AI: Practical Systems That Work
In this episode of the Ruby AI Podcast, co-hosts Joe Leo and Valentino Stoll, alongside guest Amanda Bizzinotto from Ombu Labs, delve into the ongoing controversy within the Ruby community involving Ruby Central, Shopify, and Bundler/Ruby Gems....
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Episode 8
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42:21
Contracts and Code: The Realities of AI Development
In this episode, Valentino Stoll and Joe Leo unpack the widening gap between headline-grabbing AI salaries and the day-to-day realities of building sustainable AI products. From sports-style contracts stuffed with equity to the true cost of run...
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Episode 7
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47:51
Rails After the Robots: Chad Fowler on AI as the Next Abstraction
Veteran Rubyist and investor Chad Fowler sits down with hosts Valentino Stoll and Joe Leo to unpack why generative AI is less a magic trick and more the next big layer of abstraction. From his days rewriting Wunderlist in multiple languages to ...
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Episode 6
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53:57
Evaluating LLMs with Leva
In this episode of the Ruby AI Podcast, host Valentino Stoll talks with special guest Kieran, a prominent figure in the Ruby AI space. Kieran recently gave a talk at the San Francisco Ruby Meetup about his new gem, Leva, which focuses on LLM ev...
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Episode 5
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1:00:00
Roasting Ruby AI Workflows with Obie Fernandez
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, Raix. The trio dig into agent swarms,...
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Season 1
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Episode 4
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1:16:55
Active Agent with Justin Bowen
Seventeen-year Ruby veteran Justin Bowen joins hosts Valentino Stoll and Joe Leo to unveil Active Agent—a Rails-native framework that treats every agent like a controller and every prompt like a view, letting you weave LLMs, vecto...
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Episode 3
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1:22:25
Sublayer and Artificial Ruby with Scott Werner
Scott Werner—author of the Works on My Machine newsletter and creator of the Sublayer AI-agent framework—joins Valentino and Joe for a fast-moving conversation on how Rubyists are bending large-language models to their will. We unpack ...
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Episode 2
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1:11:06
Beyond Chat: Phoenix Tests, Ruby Agents & the AI Tipping Point
Valentino Stoll and co-host Joe Leo kick off The Ruby AI Podcast with a candid deep-dive into what it really takes to ship AI-powered products in Ruby today. From the origin story of Joe’s test-writing automation platform Phoenix ...
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Season 1
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Episode 1
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53:05
Trailer: The Ruby AI Podcast
In this episode of the Ruby AI podcast, hosts Landon and Valentino discuss the exciting developments in the Ruby AI community. They explore three key gems: Ruby OpenAI, Raix, and Langchain.rb, highlighting their features, use cases, and the imp...
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Episode 1
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