Came out of Rails World more fired up than I've been in years. Unforgettable moments in every sense of the word. You see there's a reason all my classic Ruby books were published in the "Professional Ruby Series". Most of us work in teams. We maintain serious production systems that real customers depend on, under real load, with real consequences if we fuck them up by being sloppy. So pencils down? Sure. Claude writes all my code too. But programming as an engineering profession is as alive as its ever been, as it moves up an abstraction level. And English alone isn't enough. We're living through a period of infinite configuration. Everyone has their own agent setup. That's why convention over configuration matters more than it ever has, the same reason Ruby on Rails was such a game changer to begin with. I have a new vision for those of us who want to embrace AI while still proudly calling ourselves programmers. If you were at #railsworld this year, I might have even discussed it with you. And I promise, I'm going to make it reality. Who's with me?

Got this comment via text message directly from a longtime friend who's not on X and it was too good not to share: "Insightful and aligns with my current experience too. I finally got over my trust issues once Fable came out. I review plans now to ensure correct architecture not code anymore. I’ll occasionally glance at PR code out of curiosity, but mostly I just look at the summary, merge and move on. At work we just did a long overdue redesign of our user flow that looks like it has increased revenue 30-40% which would have taken many man months to do before, and something we probably would not have even attempted to tackle with our small team of 3, but we knocked it out in two weeks and business is reaping the benefits. It’s time to be ambitious! My focus has become how do I make this business as successful as possible so that I have something to do in the future."

Introducing feelings gem A decision model can answer a typed question about a value with a calibrated probability. Probably showed what code reads like when an if can ask one of those questions directly instead of hand-rolling a prompt. feelings implements that kind of construct in beautiful, idiomatic Ruby. github.com/obie/feelings

Hey rubyists, here's the best way to play with these new decision models like JEV from @typesafeai Full-featured, and future-proof. Introducing github.com/obie/ruby_decisio…