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The Ruby AI Podcast
The Ruby AI Podcast explores the intersection of Ruby programming and artificial intelligence, featuring expert discussions, innovative projects, and practical insights. Join us as we interview industry leaders and developers to uncover how Ruby is shaping the future of AI.
Episodes
The Ruby AI PodcastSecuring Ruby's Future: Open Source Sustainability and RubyGems Innovation
Send us Fan Mail Rarely does one person run product strategy, day-to-day operations, and fundraising for a mission-critical open source registry…
The Ruby AI PodcastFrom Rails to AI: How MoMA Powers 200,000 Artworks with Ruby and Human Vision
Send us Fan Mail Rarely do you get a peek behind the curtain of one of the world's most iconic cultural institutions, but this episode delivers exactly that…
The Ruby AI PodcastAutonomous Agents, AI Regulation, and Ruby's Performance Frontier
Send us Fan Mail Surprisingly, setting up autonomous AI agents can actually create more management overhead, not less. That's exactly what Joe Leo discovered…
The Ruby AI PodcastRubyGems Security, AI Benchmarking, and Impatient Programming
Send us Fan Mail Rarely does a single episode pack in so much ground-level Ruby community insight, but this one covers everything from security team…
The Ruby AI PodcastFrom Maintenance to Rails Core: Security, Sandboxing, and Open Source Impact
Send us Fan Mail What happens when a conference talk becomes dangerously obsolete just one week before showtime? That urgent pivot tells you everything about…
The Ruby AI PodcastAI Code Generation vs. Maintenance: Rails World's Reality Check
Send us Fan Mail We tackle one of the most pressing tensions in modern development: what happens when AI generates code but no one truly understands it? The…
The Ruby AI PodcastProgramming Isn't Dying, It's Climbing the Abstraction Ladder
Send us Fan Mail "Programming isn't dying, it's evolving." That idea sits at the heart of this conversation recorded live from the Rails World conference…
The Ruby AI PodcastRuby Security Breaches, AI Agents, and Coverage Standards
Send us Fan Mail Secretly attacking the very community you sponsor is the kind of story that makes you stop and listen twice. In May, OpenAI's AI agents…
The Ruby AI PodcastXORuby: Democratizing Ruby Conferences for Everyone
Send us Fan Mail Quietly, a new kind of conference is reshaping how the Ruby community gathers, and it started with one person's frustration with expensive…
The Ruby AI PodcastOmarchy, Astra Hype, and AI Security Risks
Send us Fan Mail The Ruby AI Podcast is going live weekly. Joe Leo and Valentino Stoll put themselves on the clock to work through what’s happening across…
The Ruby AI PodcastAI Escapes the Sandbox: Security Breaches, Transparency, and the Future of Bot Delegation
Send us Fan Mail When OpenAI's AI Models Escaped and Attacked for Four Days Imagine your AI models breaking free from their sandbox and attacking other…
The Ruby AI PodcastAI-Powered Rails Upgrades with Ernesto Tagwerker: NextRails and the Future of Framework Modernization
Send us Fan Mail When AI Refused to Listen and Then Became the Best Developer on the Team Rarely does a story about an AI tool actively resisting instructions…
The Ruby AI PodcastRuby Central, Vibe Coding Ceilings, and What Still Requires a Human: Michael Rispoli on the Work AI Cannot Take
Send us Fan Mail Joe Leo hosts the Ruby AI Podcast with guest Mike Rispoli, discussing Ruby Central’s financial instability, leadership changes, the Ruby…
The Ruby AI PodcastMinerva Magic: OpenClaw, Agent Status Pages, and Training an AI Coworker in Ruby on Rails
Send us Fan Mail What happens when you treat an AI agent like a co-founder instead of a tool? In this episode, Valentino and Joe go deep into a real-world…
The Ruby AI PodcastYou Can’t Vibe-Code Trust: Scaling AI Safely with Bekki Freeman
Send us Fan Mail Valentino Stoll and co-host Joe Leo open the Ruby Podcast noting OpenAI is winding down its SOA video app and discuss the broader difficulty…
The Ruby AI PodcastYou Can’t Vibe-Code Trust: Why Real SaaS Still Wins in the AI Era
Send us Fan Mail On the Ruby AI Podcast, hosts Valentino and Joe Leo welcome Scholarly CTO/co-founder Kelly Sutton to discuss building a vertical SaaS “faculty…
The Ruby AI PodcastCRMs Don’t Have to Suck: Rebuilding Business Software with AI and Ruby with Thomas Witt
Send us Fan Mail Many “AI startups” today are little more than thin wrappers around large language model APIs. But what happens when those APIs improve and the…
The Ruby AI PodcastInnovating Development: The Future of GitHub Agents and AI in Rails
Send us Fan Mail In this episode of the Ruby AI Podcast, hosts Joe and Valentino welcome special guest, Kinsey Durham Grace, a prominent figure in the Ruby…
The Ruby AI PodcastFrom Writing Code To Orchestrating It, Agentic Development with Ben Scofield
Send us Fan Mail In this episode of the Ruby AI Podcast, hosts Valentino Stoll and Joe Leo are joined by Ben Schofield, an accomplished author, open source…
The Ruby AI PodcastNew Year, New Ruby: Agents, Wishes, and a Calm Ruby 4
Send us Fan Mail Ruby turns 30, Ruby 4 quietly ships, and the AI tooling arms race shows signs of maturity. Valentino and Joe unpack what stability really…
The Ruby AI PodcastReal vs. Fake AI with Evan Phoenix
Send us Fan Mail In this episode of the Ruby AI podcast, hosts Valentino Stoll and Joe Leo engage with Evan Phoenix, a seasoned Ruby programmer and CEO of…
The Ruby AI PodcastRunning Self-Hosted Models with Ruby and Chris Hasinski
Send us Fan Mail In this episode of the Ruby AI Podcast, hosts Valentino Stoll and Joe Leo welcome AI and Ruby expert Chris Hasinski. They delve into the…
The Ruby AI PodcastThe Latent Spark: Carmine Paolino on Ruby’s AI Reboot
Send us Fan Mail In this episode of the Ruby AI Podcast, hosts Joe Leo and his co-host interview Carmine Paolino, the developer behind Ruby LLM. The discussion…
The Ruby AI PodcastBuilding Futures: AI, Careers & the Rails Ahead with Avi Flombaum
Send us Fan Mail In this episode of the Ruby AI Podcast, hosts Valentino Stoll and Joe Leo are joined by Avi Flombaum, the founder of Flatiron School. Avi…
The Ruby AI PodcastThe TLDR of AI Dev: Real Workflows with Justin Searls
Send us Fan Mail In this episode of the Ruby AI Podcast, co-hosts Valentino Stoll and Joe Leo engage in a lively discussion with guest Justin Searls. They…
The Ruby AI PodcastReal-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…
The Ruby AI PodcastContracts and Code: The Realities of AI Development
Send us Fan Mail In this episode, Valentino Stoll and Joe Leo unpack the widening gap between headline-grabbing AI salaries and the day-to-day realities of…
The Ruby AI PodcastRails After the Robots: Chad Fowler on AI as the Next Abstraction
Send us Fan Mail Veteran Rubyist and investor Chad Fowler sits down with hosts Valentino Stoll and Joe Leo to unpack why generative AI is less a magic trick…
The Ruby AI PodcastEvaluating LLMs with Leva
Send us Fan Mail In this episode of the Ruby AI Podcast, host Valentino Stoll talks with special guest Kieran, a prominent figure in the Ruby AI space. Kieran…
The Ruby AI PodcastRoasting Ruby AI Workflows with Obie Fernandez
Send us Fan Mail Ruby legend Obie Fernandez joins hosts Valentino Stoll and Joe Leo to unveil Roast—the new open-source Ruby framework for declaring reliable…
The Ruby AI PodcastActive Agent with Justin Bowen
Send us Fan Mail Seventeen-year Ruby veteran Justin Bowen joins hosts Valentino Stoll and Joe Leo to unveil Active Agent—a Rails-native framework that treats…
The Ruby AI PodcastSublayer and Artificial Ruby with Scott Werner
Send us Fan Mail Scott Werner—author of the Works on My Machine newsletter and creator of the Sublayer AI-agent framework—joins Valentino and Joe for a…
The Ruby AI PodcastBeyond Chat: Phoenix Tests, Ruby Agents & the AI Tipping Point
Send us Fan Mail Valentino Stoll and co-host Joe Leo kick off The Ruby AI Podcast with a candid deep-dive into what it really takes to ship AI-powered products…
The Ruby AI PodcastTrailer: The Ruby AI Podcast
Send us Fan Mail In this episode of the Ruby AI podcast, hosts Landon and Valentino discuss the exciting developments in the Ruby AI community. They explore…