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
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