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And then I hand the documents to Codex with Astra on Medium and a prompt that is like this: Implement using Luna subagents the specifications found at docs/<specs> which will do the work and sometimes tell me things like this (I read them for fun bc I don't trust I verify 😄 )

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GitHub - lucianghinda/superplanning: Superplanning is a Skill for AI Agents that helps you plan a new product or feature

Basically I first run: github.com/lucianghind... to generate a high level idea of what I want to implement Then I run a codebase-research and change-spec skills which will soon be added to superpowers-ruby cause I think I tested them for almost 2 weeks and they are very good

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Superplanning is a Skill for AI Agents that helps you plan a new product or feature - lucianghinda/superplanning

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Most of my work these days on my personal projects (which are a bunch of small Ruby gems that I use in various projects) is using Astra medium to orchestrate and Luna subagents to implement and execute various tasks.

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These are just token ids not vector embeddings so the LLM will not work directly with them. They also have no meaning except to allocate an integer to a chunk of text (token) But it is still nice to decompose and explore how a prompt/context is transformed.

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Lucian Ghinda @lucianghinda.com · 08/09/2026

I was creating some content for #GoodEnoughAgents workshop and wanted to make it even more practical so I found this gem that provides an interface to tiktoken algorithm from @OpenAI An LLM model never "reads" your text, it works with numbers. gem install tiktoken_ruby

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So looking forward to build more stuff together. I did a similar thing this year in a way forced to choose to focus on a smaller set of projects and my family.

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Lucian Ghinda @lucianghinda.com · 08/09/2026

Did not have time to announce that together with @skatkov.com we will deliver a workshop about Good Enough Agents at EuRuKo 2026 but now seems late cause it is fully booked :) Looking forward to meeting everybody at @euruko.org

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tapster @mileswoodroffe.com · 03/09/2026

If you’re in London next week, it would be great to see you at “Ruby in London” at Mindful Chef HQ, where me, Tobias and Tom are all speaking. Lots of #rubyfriends already coming but room for a few more! It’s going to be a busy one! www.meetup.com/ruby-in-lond... #ruby #rails

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Ruby in London with Mindful Chef, Wed, Sep 9, 2026, 5:30 PM | Meetup

Welcome back to another Ruby in London meetup!! The event will be hosted again by the wonderful team at Mindful Chef on Wednesday 9th September at 5.30pm. Speakers/Talks

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Lucian Ghinda @lucianghinda.com · 03/09/2026

Even bigger now that also Codex has issues bsky.app/profile/luci...

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Lucian Ghinda @lucianghinda.com · 03/09/2026

Hmmm, coincidence? :)) Maybe it is time for a break.

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Lucian Ghinda @lucianghinda.com · 03/09/2026

I think one important change from Anthropic related to Fable 5.1 is the Data Retention There are a lot of organisations who disabled Fable due to data retention policy. And it seems Anthropic does not plan to disable it but maybe this EFS could help more organisations use Fable

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hsbt @hsbt.org · 02/09/2026

RubyGems 4.0.20 and Bundler 4.0.20 are out. This is a cumulative bug fix release for the 4.0 series, and it backports the fixes for running gem and Bundler under RUBY_BOX=1 on Ruby 4.0: blog.rubygems.org/2026/09/02/4...

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4.0.20 Released

RubyGems 4.0.20 includes enhancements, bug fixes and documentation and Bundler 4.0.20 includes enhancements, bug fixes and documentation.

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Peter Zhu @peterzhu.ca · 02/09/2026

Ruby's GC and ZJIT got a new collab! We recently introduced inlining of the garbage collector's fastpath into ZJIT. Read more about it here: railsatscale.com/2026-09-01-z...

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ZJIT 🤝 GC: Inlining GC Fastpath in ZJIT

Object allocations from the garbage collector are now inlined in ZJIT.

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John Nunemaker @johnnunemaker.com · 02/09/2026

Nice little pattern for background tasks that need to be rate limited a bit: start to start throttling. If you need 1/sec, don't sleep 1. Sleep for the difference 1 minus the duration of the work.

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Rachael Wright-Munn @chael.codes · 02/09/2026

I try to make this a little better every month and automate it a bit more so I can spend more time on little details and customizations. I'm particularly proud of this edition. ♥️

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Time to trim the worktrees. 100 worktrees in 3 months. 40 of those were created in August, 22 in July and 34 in June, 4 today :) - 66 were used for code review, bake-offs and reproducing bugs - 34 were active development

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For a single query, Rails already ships a scoped tool: ```ruby ActiveRecord::Base.logger.silence do User.where(created_at: 1.week.ago..).count end ```

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Why does a def inside a block work as a console helper? A method defined in a block lands on Object. And in rails console, self is main, an instance of Object. ```ruby Object.instance_method(:hello).owner # => Object ```

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Add this to config/initializers/console_helpers.rb: ```ruby Rails.application.console do def disable_console_loggers! @previous_log_levels ||= console_loggers.to_h { |l| [l, l.level] } @previous_log_levels.each_key { |l| l.level = :error } end end ```

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Rails.application.console registers a block that runs only when bin/rails console boots. This will only be loaded in console, not web process nor jobs. The Rails configuration guides document it as the console-only hook. That makes it the correct home for helpers like this.

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In development the console logs every SQL query and every cache line. Sometimes it is great for debugging. But some other times it is terrible when I want to copy console output into an agent CLI. I only wanted the thing scripts I run printed there. No extra SQL log lines

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For a while I pasted this into every Rails console session: ActiveRecord::Base.logger.level = Logger::ERROR Rails has a hook built for exactly this: Rails.application.console.

Guide on creating a helper to silence logging in Rails console sessions. Focus on code and functionality for cleaner output.

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Jochen Lillich @geewiz.dev · 31/08/2026

For a while I pasted this into every Rails console session: ActiveRecord::Base.logger.level = Logger::ERROR Rails has a hook built for exactly this: Rails.application.console.

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Did you know that you can literally multiply array elements in #Ruby? `[1, 2, 3] * 3 # => [1, 2, 3, 1, 2, 3, 1, 2, 3]` And with a scalar string, it’s a shortcut for `join`: ``` h = { a: 1, b: 2} h.map { |pair| pair * "=" } * ", " # => "a=1, b=2" ```

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JP Camara @jpcamara.com · 31/08/2026

Here’s the SolidQueue batches 2.5 year architectural journey, filled with O(n^2) algorithms, hot row contention, excessive jobs, and much in between. There’s a strong chance you’ll learn a thing or two - I certainly did 😮‍💨 jpcamara.com/2026/08/31/s...

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SolidQueue Batches: evolution and architecture

When Rosa first released SolidQueue, she did a fantastic talk on the internals of how it works and what trade-offs she made when building it. You should give it a watch. It’s where I first learned how...

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hsbt @hsbt.org · 31/08/2026

RubyGems and Bundler now pass their full test suites with RUBY_BOX=1. I am working toward Ruby 4.1 so that Ruby::Box is stable enough for real projects. bugs.ruby-lang.org/issues/22275

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Misc #22275: Ruby::Box support plan for RubyGems and Bundler - Ruby - Ruby Issue Tracking System

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Lucian Ghinda @lucianghinda.com · 31/08/2026

I could be biased as I grew in times of IRC and chat with text based interfaces where slash commands were used a lot. For me `/` is a better fit symbol for something that looks like a command or something to be executed than the `$` but could be a personal preference maybe?

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Lucian Ghinda @lucianghinda.com · 31/08/2026

When I think about commands and triggering skills I have to say I like a lot more the way Claude Code does it in TUI with "/" than Codex TUI that uses "$" For me slash is much more a hint for a command than $ which gives me vibes of PHP :)

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Lucian Ghinda @lucianghinda.com · 29/08/2026

If you have time and budget (or remaining limits on any agent) I suggest you take this github.com/lucianghinda... and change it maybe to include some code that you have and run variations of instructions for Codex and see which one you like more.

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Lucian Ghinda @lucianghinda.com · 28/08/2026

I like the idea of Claude that goes beyond what I have asked and tells me about a possible bug and investigation to be done as followup. But I wish it would have made that text a bit more structured by default.

Lucian Ghinda @lucianghinda.com · 28/08/2026

Compare with Claude Code style. I know it is not the same task but this wall of text. This is Claude Code with "simple technical English" instruction added in user injected Claude(dot)md Still makes me re-read twice some parts.

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Lucian Ghinda @lucianghinda.com · 28/08/2026

Have to say I like a lot more this default style from Codex TUI to present the proposed changes. It is brief, it has the right keywords highlighted, it shows me the approaches considered so far, and it shows with bullet points the proposed architecture.

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Oh you are not so far away :) here is a screenshot from today when I was trying out some stuff part of the vectors embeddings, directions and matrices playing with some very small embeddings.

I even wrote this small gem that you can ask to battle review and it will put Claude Code and Codex to fight pro and against each hunk diff and then spin a Sinatra server (just for fun) with a HTML page wher I can add my own comments.

This was not a very serious task. I wanted to do a small funny API server for participants to play with. Usually I do bakeoffs between agents (models + harness) and prompt variations on the same model and adversarial reviews.

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Ah of course it agrees with me on my architectural choices that I also wrote in a file in that folder :) I shared this as a funny thing as I was discussing back and forth about the architecture of a server for participants to play with and at some point I challenged just a bit my own decision

Stanislav (Stas) Katkov @skatkov.com · 27/08/2026

I like it when AI confirms my stack choices: Ruby on Rails + @avohq.io PS: Working on a new workshop, more details soon

A dark interface displays text about integrating Rails and Avo for workshop management, emphasizing a centralized dashboard for instructors.

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Gem documentation viewer for developer that don't want to leave the Terminal.

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