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Why is the ruby/rails community so weird. Half of us just quietly make stuff, but the other half seems to need to sporadically reassure everyone that it's not dead, actually.

> Rails has started to show its age amid with the current wave of AI-powered applications.

Not everything needs to have bloody AI.

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> Why is the ruby/rails community so weird. Half of us just quietly make stuff, but the other half seems to need to sporadically reassure everyone that it's not dead, actually.

Half the net merrily runs on PHP and jQuery. Far more if you index on company profitability.

> Not everything needs to have bloody AI.

Some things are an anti-signal at this point. If a service provider starts talking about AI, what I hear is that I'm going to need to look for a new service provider pretty soon.

Based on what I've seen from job postings in the US, you can't start a company in healthcare right now unless you've got AI featuring prominently.

Sadly, I'm not even talking cool stuff like imaging (though it's there too), but anything to do with clinical notes to insurance is all AI-ified.

Truly, it is the new crypto-web3 hype train, except there'll be a few useful things to come out of it too.

Yes now at doctors offices you have the option to sign an agreement for the doctor to wear a microphone to record the conversation and then AI tool automatically creates a report for the doctor. AI and all aspects of medicine seem to be merging.

This kind of thing scares me knowing how bad AI meeting and document summaries are, at least what I’ve used. Missing key details, misinterpreting information, hallucinating things that weren’t said…boy I can’t wait for my doctor to use an AI summary of my visit to incorrectly diagnose me!

> Not everything needs to have bloody AI.

And even if it did, the Ruby eco-system has AI stuff...

ankane to the rescue, as normal

True hah. Of course even if they didn't already most AI libs are actually C++ libs that Python interfaces with, and Ruby has probably the best FFI of any language.

A former customer of mine is creating AI apps with Rails. After all what one is those apps need is to call an API and output the results. Rails or any other system are more than capable of doing that.

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