The Ruby AI Podcast

Real-World Ruby AI: Practical Systems That Work

07 Oct 2025

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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. While both Valentino and Amanda share their perspectives on the situation, the conversation swiftly transitions into Amanda's journey and current work in AI and machine learning at Ombu Labs. The episode highlights various AI initiatives, including the creation of an AI bot to streamline internal processes, automated Rails upgrade roadmaps, and multi-agent architectures aimed at enhancing efficiency in Rails projects. Amanda also discusses the challenges of integrating AI in consultancy services and shares some insights on the tools and strategies used at Ombu Labs. The podcast concludes with exciting updates about Amanda's recent work, Joe's announcements on upcoming projects including Phoenix's public release, and Valentino's discovery of a new user interface for Claude Swarm.00:00 Introduction and Welcome00:26 Ruby Community Controversy04:37 Amanda's AI Journey08:45 AI in Business and Consultancy16:24 AI-Powered Tools and Applications23:09 Managing Knowledge Base Updates24:42 Prompting Strategies and Agentic Workflows26:02 Understanding Workflows vs. Agents28:37 Observability in AI Systems29:06 Advanced Prompting Techniques31:08 Multi-Agent Architectures34:32 Ruby AI Gems and Libraries37:09 Exciting Announcements and Future Plans41:44 Conclusion and Final ThoughtsMentioned In The Show:AI for Rails upgrades: FastRuby automated roadmapPGVector and Neighbor gemGuardrails.ai for hallucination control (https://www.guardrailsai.com)Microsoft Presidio for PII strippingObservability with LangFuse (https://www.langfuse.com)Prompting engineering techniquesChain-of-Thought, ReAct pattern article ActiveAgentLangChain.rbDSPy.rbPhoenix AI upgrade assistant public beta Oct 15 eventOmbu Labs roadmap tool live nowSwarm UI for Claude Swarm by Parruda Ombu Labs – https://ombulabs.comArtificial Ruby NYC meetup – https://artificialruby.aiShopify Claude Swarm project – https://github.com/shopify/claude-swarm

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Real-World Ruby AI: Practical Systems That Work

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3ª PARTE | 17 DIC 2025 | EL PARTIDAZO DE COPE

13:00H | 21 DIC 2025 | Fin de Semana

12:00H | 21 DIC 2025 | Fin de Semana

10:00H | 21 DIC 2025 | Fin de Semana

13:00H | 20 DIC 2025 | Fin de Semana

12:00H | 20 DIC 2025 | Fin de Semana

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