Treat your AI feature like a software you can watch, not a model you hope works.

A lot of the AI conversation right now is about moving faster. But what if the real value is having more time to focus on the work that actually matters? Chad Pytel talks AI, ReadySetGo, and intentional product development on Giant Robots. Stream the full episode here: podcast.thoughtbot.com/612

AI app builders promise to turn anyone into a founder overnight, but is the code actually production-ready? We look at the success stories, technical risks and a path forward.

Brennan Dunn of RightMessage joins Chad Pytel for a conversation on building intentionally, staying lean, and rethinking the pressure to constantly scale. Listen to the full episode: podcast.thoughtbot.com/611 #SaaS #AI #thoughtbot #giantrobotspodcast #buildinpublic

Highlights of what happened in our #dev channel on Slack this week.

500 episodes later, The Bike Shed is still evolving. In this special anniversary episode, past and present hosts reflect on burnout, mentorship, AI, podcasting, software careers, and the moments that shaped them along the way. Listen to the full episode: bikeshed.thoughtbot.com/500

thoughtbot Senior Developer, Sami, discusses the dynamics of working with clients in regulated industries, in particular the aversion to risk in these industries: youtube.com/shorts/tREiq...

Automated scans taught me about some web stuff I forgot or never even know.

Some say interface tests are fragile and shouldn't be written. I disagree. Here's why I think they're worth writing.

Practical approaches to add biometrics authentication to a mobile app.

Moving from Figma to Claude Code and back again is now possible. This could be a game changer for less technical, more visual Product Designers.

thoughtbot's Senior DevOps engineer, Olamide, explains why your systems should be breakable: youtube.com/shorts/ZPKfj...

Solo founder. One engineer. Still shipping. Brennan Dunn of RightMessage on how AI changed the way he builds, hires, and runs his business — ep. 611 of Giant Robots 🤖 🎧 podcast.thoughtbot.com/611 #IndieHacker #SoloFounder #AITools #BuildInPublic #Podcast

thoughtbot is joining the Ruby Alliance, a coalition of companies investing in the long-term sustainability of Ruby infrastructure and the broader ecosystem. Here’s why we believe shared stewardship matters for Ruby’s future.

This summer, we’re taking London Tech Leaders outdoors with a special series of relaxed meetup gatherings across some of London’s best outdoor venues. thoughtbot.com/blog/summer-...

How AI creates both opportunities and existential risks for minority languages, and what we can do to protect them.

Here are 6 key insights I took from the Startup Grind Global conference 2026 along with 3 cool companies worth checking out!

We partnered with Riipen to help scale and ship high-impact features inside their Rails application. Watch the full client spotlight: youtu.be/O2shsO0LBPs #thoughtbot #RubyOnRails #EdTech

A case for verbosity in CSS properties.

Two months ago I sat down with Lord Chris Holmes MBE to talk about his AI regulation private members bill.

Can you be anti-AI today? Sami and Emma Barnes discuss swimming against the AI hype tide and the value of crafting code yourself. Check it out in our latest Giant Robots episode: podcast.thoughtbot.com/610 #thoughtbot #giantrobotspodcast #ArtificialIntelligence #Leadership

And then I tried to explain it.

We asked a room of health tech leaders in Los Angeles for their hot takes on the industry. 👀🔥 #HealthTech #DigitalHealth #AIinHealthcare

The hurrier I go, the behinder I get.

Discover how Joël and Aji's favorite YouTube channels inspire their creative process in our latest episode "BikeTube ShedTacular!" Listen now: bikeshed.thoughtbot.com/499

My situation disagreed.

SQL Server has a session-level setting that silently truncates your binary data before it ever reaches Ruby. It defaults to 4KB. Most drivers fix it automatically. tiny_tds does not.

"For economic, for social, for psychological reasons, it can’t be allowed to continue". Sami talks with Lord Chris Holmes, Peer of the UK House of Lords, about the increasing need for AI legislation in the UK.

A Claude skill for the noisy RSpec output you've always wanted to clean up.

How we're building a curated tech leadership community in Austin, from intimate meetups to a SXSW event, and why intention beats scale.

Podcasts and the blogosphere are awash with people talking about building software while away from their desks, but often burning serious cash in the process. Here's a simple and cheap way to try this out for yourself.

Accessibility as the key factor for debugging, designing and developing a carousel with logos on a webpage.

What if healthcare could operate with the same efficiency as modern payments systems? Mastercard's Raja Rajamannar shares how proven capabilities like fraud detection, data analytics, and real-time decisioning can help move the healthcare industry forward. www.youtube.com/shorts/V9cP-...

A Claude skill to do the boring stuff for us.

Twenty-four refactor-from-retro commits in a week. How the management system started refactoring itself.

We're experimenting with two new CSS functions to clean up our logo marquee code.

Week three of building a management system with Claude Code. Seventeen commits in one day, a command that lasted 24 hours, and the realisation that commands are conversations.

Sally fixes a bug without AI, then invites Claude to try.

Supply chain attacks are getting more common. RubyGems might be next. Here's how to help the ecosystem be safer.

Slow development isn’t always a code problem. It’s often a process one, especially in regulated industries. Here’s how navigating change to embrace a shared agile process helped one of our clients start finishing ahead of schedule.

Automatically filter sensitive information from your RubyLLM conversations before it reaches third-party providers.

How I use Obsidian, Claude Projects, and Gemini Meeting Notes to stay present when my brain has too many tabs open.

Your devices are all judging you. They're just too polite to say it directly.

Learn what happened when Chad installed the open source rails-audit-thoughtbot Claude skill, ran it on thoughtbot's decade-old internal Hub app, and walked through hits, misses, and how we'd tighten the skill over time.

Adapt your own patterns and processes into a reusable piece of content.

In week two of building a management system with Claude Code, I created fifteen commands in a day. By the end of the week, I'd deleted three of them.

Most teams aren’t behind on AI because of tech. They’re behind because they’ve stopped learning. Ep. 607 → podcast.thoughtbot.com/607 #thoughtbot #giantrobotspodcast #ArtificialIntelligence #DigitalStrategy #InnovationLeadership

Our Senior Product Designer, Ferdia Kenny, shows how to make a Batman WebGL effect in Unicorn Studio in the latest thoughtbot Design Short: youtube.com/shorts/o-NW1...

thoughtbot is heading to Haggis Ruby in Glasgow on April 23-24. Come find us.

Growth brings change. Change brings friction. Ep. 604 dives into how to manage both. podcast.thoughtbot.com/604 #giantrobotspodcast #thoughtbot #SoftwareDevelopment #ProductLeadership #AI #DigitalTransformation