Conferences, AI Trends, and Sleepless Nights
Chris, Andrew, and David catch up on health, sleep deprivation, and the new Invincible season and Fallout . David shares some RubyConf CFP submissions news and this year’s broad conference themes. They discuss Andrew finishing difficult authentication work, touching on OAuth/SSO complexity and pricing, the idea of products built more for bots than humans, and where AI is proving useful, especially for debugging and research. The conversation eventually widens into a more skeptical look at the AI industry itself, touching on scraped code, deepfakes, surveillance, lobbying, and whether the promised productivity gains really match reality. Hit download now! Links Judoscale- Remote Ruby listener gift Invincible Fallout Robby Russell X Sam Altman X Ghostty Ruby 4.0.2 Released RubyConf: July 14-16, 2026, Las Vegas, NV Rails World 2026- September 23-24, Austin, TX (Update) Honeybadger Honeybadger is an application health monitoring tool built by developers for developers. Judoscale Make your deployments bulletproof with autoscaling that just works. Disclaimer: This post contains affiliate links. If you make a purchase, I may receive a commission at no extra cost to you. Chris Oliver X/Twitter Andrew Mason X/Twitter Jason Charnes X/Twitter