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Remote Ruby · March 27 · 34 min

Conferences, AI Trends, and Sleepless Nights

Chris, Andrew, and David catch up on health, sleep deprivation, and the new Invincible season and Fallout. David shares some RubyConf CFP submissions news and this year’s broad conference themes. They discuss Andrew finishing difficult authentication work, touching on OAuth/SSO complexity and pricing, the idea of products built more for bots than humans, and where AI is proving useful, especially for debugging and research. The conversation eventually widens into a more skeptical look at the AI industry itself, touching on scraped code, deepfakes, surveillance, lobbying, and whether the promised productivity gains really match reality. Hit download now! Links Judoscale- Remote Ruby listener gift Invincible Fallout Robby Russell X Sam Altman X Ghostty Ruby 4.0.2 Released RubyConf: July 14-16, 2026, Las Vegas, NV Rails World 2026- September 23-24, Austin, TX (Update) Honeybadger Honeybadger is an application health monitoring tool built by developers for developers. Judoscale Make your deployments bulletproof with autoscaling that just works. Disclaimer: This post contains affiliate links. If you make a purchase, I may receive a commission at no extra cost to you. Chris Oliver X/Twitter Andrew Mason X/Twitter Jason Charnes X/Twitter

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Chris, Andrew, and David catch up on health, sleep deprivation, and the new Invincible season and Fallout. David shares some RubyConf CFP submissions news and this year’s broad conference themes. They discuss Andrew finishing difficult authentication work, touching on OAuth/SSO complexity and pricing, the idea of products built more for bots than humans, and where AI is proving useful, especially for debugging and research. The conversation eventually widens into a more skeptical look at the AI industry itself, touching on scraped code, deepfakes, surveillance, lobbying, and whether the promised productivity gains really match reality. Hit download now!

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Honeybadger
Honeybadger is an application health monitoring tool built by developers for developers.

Judoscale
Make your deployments bulletproof with autoscaling that just works.

Disclaimer: This post contains affiliate links. If you make a purchase, I may receive a commission at no extra cost to you.


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