Roasting Ruby AI Workflows with Obie Fernandez
Show notes
Ruby legend Obie Fernandez joins hosts Valentino Stoll and Joe Leo to unveil Roast—the new open-source Ruby framework for declaring reliable AI workflows—and celebrate the 1.0 release of its engine library, Raix. The trio dig into agent swarms, prompt-engineering best practices, code-base refactors, and why unleashing creativity matters more than ever in an AI-driven future."
Show Notes
- Obie’s book — https://leanpub.com/patterns-of-application-development-using-ai
- Roast (GitHub) — https://github.com/Shopify/roast
- Roast (intro post) — https://shopify.engineering/introducing-roast
- Raix (core library) — https://github.com/OlympiaAI/raix
- Raix for Rails — https://github.com/OlympiaAI/raix-rails
- Claude Swarm (multi-agent YAML swarms) — https://github.com/parruda/claude-swarm
- Claude Squad https://github.com/smtg-ai/claude-squad
- Claude Code (agentic coding tool) — https://www.anthropic.com/claude-code
- Claude Opus (model family) — https://www.anthropic.com/claude
- “Software 3.0” (Karpathy talk) — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LCEmiRjPEtQ
- Suno (AI music) — https://suno.com/
- Olympia (AI team platform) — https://olympia.chat/
- “The Bitter Lesson” (R. Sutton) — https://www.incompleteideas.net/IncIdeas/BitterLesson.html
- POODR (Sandi Metz) — https://www.poodr.com/
- Refactoring (Martin Fowler) — https://martinfowler.com/books/refactoring.html
- Clean Code (R.C. Martin) — https://www.informit.com/store/clean-code-a-handbook-of-agile-software-craftsmanship-9780135398579
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