Real-World Ruby AI: Practical Systems That Work

Send us Fan Mail 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 Welcome 00:26 Ruby Community Controversy 04:37 Amanda's AI Journey 08:45 AI in Business and Consultancy 16:24 AI-Powered Tools and Applications 23:09 Managing Knowledge Base Updates 24:42 Prompting Strategies and Agentic Workflows 26:02 Understanding Workflows vs. Agents 28:37 Observability in AI Systems 29:06 Advanced Prompting Techniques 31:08 Multi-Agent Architectures 34:32 Ruby AI Gems and Libraries 37:09 Exciting Announcements and Future Plans 41:44 Conclusion and Final Thoughts Mentioned In The Show: AI for Rails upgrades: FastRuby automated roadmap PGVector and Neighbor gem Guardrails.ai for hallucination control (https://www.guardrailsai.com) Microsoft Presidio for PII stripping Observability with LangFuse (https://www.langfuse.com) Prompting engineering techniques Chain-of-Thought, ReAct pattern article ActiveAgent LangChain.rb DSPy.rb Phoenix AI upgrade assistant public beta Oct 15 event Ombu Labs roadmap tool live now Swarm UI for Claude Swarm by Parruda Ombu Labs – https://ombulabs.com Artificial Ruby NYC meetup – https://artificialruby.ai Shopify Claude Swarm project – https://github.com/shopify/claude-swarm