The talk at RubyConf that made the biggest impression on me was Alicia Rojas’ about making the transition from humans reviewing AI written code, to AI also being responsible for all code review (a…

Video from my RubyConf talk on AI assisted coding is live! You can also see the slides. My inspiration for the talk was all the advice out there saying you really have to X, Y, or Z with AI coding.

The problem with “1 shot” AI coding implementation is that, in my experience no amount of up front planning and research is going to catch all the potential problems. This post describes how to instea...

Gonna send you back to the stone age.

This is the second post in a series on coding with AI. It’s inspired by the talk I gave at RubyConf in July (video should be available soon). The first post was Pairing with AI #1: brainstorming.

This is the first post in a series on coding with AI. It’s inspired by the talk I gave at RubyConf last week: AI-assisted coding: practical lessons from small startups to legacy codebases.

"The pace and breadth of change with AI coding tools is overwhelming, and there are newly emerging capabilities and options on an almost daily basis. I'll share practical lessons and strategies gather...

I drafted this post after RailsConf in 2018, and very belatedly realized I never published it. So I’m finally getting around to it 😉. Reviewing it now, 8 years later, I’m pleasantly surprised at how…

As an American attending a Japanese major league baseball game for the first time, it turned out that the most fun part wasn’t watching the game, it was enjoying the highly choreographed…

I’ve been using Rspec since 2012 and in all this time I’ve never had a really clear picture of how to best use . I don’t have this issue with any other aspect of Rspec. Probably our most common…

How an American name became a European diagnosis