Ruby AI: Interview with Obie Fernandez

You recently met with Anthropic to discuss improving their models’ understanding of Ruby and Rails. What can you tell us about that meeting and their plans going forward for the Ruby community? Obie: Can’t tell you too much in detail due to non-disclosure agreements. However, I can say that the models are not struggling, and the effort I am trying to help with is simply to give additional base knowledge to the models about the full spectrum of Ruby and Rails codebases that are out there. For instance, I’m trying to get a multi-million line Rails 6 codebase accepted as training material. It has a ton of RSpec and StimulusReflex code in it, along with other more esoteric gems and libraries like AcidicJob, etc. All of this helps the new models work better with Ruby and Rails. Overall I love that Anthropic cares about the Ruby community as much as they do.