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The End of the AI Gold Rush: Why Your Next Raise Might Come From an Unexpected Source
Over the years, I’ve lived through multiple waves of “revolutionary” technology: 4GL programming languages, “visual” programming languages, “agile” methodologies, SOA, various web frameworks, cloud computing, serverless, containerization, k8s, no code, and now “AI” coding. The Ruby ecosystem has had its share of “revolutionary” entrants, with Ruby on Rails and Chef being two that I’ve directly…
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The End of Free LLMs: Pricing Reality and Market Impact on Software Engineering
This is speculation and transcript via Claude Sonnet 4 starting with “once the ‘free’ or loss leader phase of the LLM wave has ended, what is the likely pricing for a single user assuming the same allocation levels” For more of blog post style, see The End of the AI Gold Rush: Why Your Next…
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Thanks, Claude, but Ruby is not Rails
Signs of Rails creep in the code I spent some of today debugging an error that suddenly started appearing in CI runs for unit tests: Having prior experiences with code that was written for a Ruby only project but happened to rely on a Rails dependency, I pretty quickly knew why it was breaking: NilClass#present?…