Ruby shaped a lot of how I think about software: taste, joy, maintainability, and the belief that craft still matters.
I wasn't able to make #RubyConf this year, but I wrote my first piece for the Gusto Engineering blog in that spirit for the age of AI.
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Taste Over Tooling: Craftsmanship in the Post-Execution Era
As AI agents commoditize the execution of code, the leverage moves to the two things a machine can’t do for you: deciding what belongs on…