We're hiring for Rails engineers on our team again, which is exciting!
What resources do you like/recommend for people who may not have experience w/ Ruby/Rails but are experienced w/ other Web technologies?
@eileencodes, @searls, @tenderlove (who else to ask?)
@bcherny Amazing! How quickly could an agent add a feature for the double tap hotkey desktop app to open code mode vs default? Bonus points to trigger specific subagent/flow
@danlovesproofs I find it helpful for communication and records (short term). It’s not hard to adjust an ai flow to think, gather context, save to system and then start.
Cool AI moment in a 1:1 yesterday:
I was chatting w/ an engineer about a potential edge case, and we were trying to decide how/when to prioritize.
I said "let's try this": and hit a hotkey to record my voice, reiterated the issue, hit enter, and 5min later we had PR to approve.
@stephsmithio@Olohiremee Depends on context, but a varied team can have more strengths than 1 person.
Also this means the team just executes but can’t improve as it grows because it would be constrained my the managers individual abilities.
Taken to the extreme: this means the CEO can do *every* job?
@ctjlewis I think the point is still valid—It’s a game changer.
An idea that might take 2 weeks of x deep work sessions can be an afternoon while sipping a beer.
Maybe it’s not enterprise prod level (not everything needs too be), but it’s becoming quicker to build and test than to spec
@nateberkopec Of course AI wrote my bash / git log scripts and the python/pandas code to graph it…
Still have to think a lot and give detailed instructions but I think it’s a good think more time is reinvested there vs typing code.
@nateberkopec I ran some numbers this week (caveat that new lines, net lines, etc all have their flaws) and have seen 3x since leaning AI first and pushing through even when it felt slower (compared to copilot mode that is). A lot might be tests, comments, etc but that’s important too.