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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