​"When you don't create things, you become defined by your tastes rather than ability. Your tastes only narrow & exclude people. So create." - Why the Lucky Stiff

​Artificial Ruby is a monthly gathering for people who build things: engineers, designers, founders, and anyone else who's picked up AI and started creating with it. Those creating for the first time or who are creating more than they ever thought possible.

​We started as a Ruby and AI community and that's our foundation, but our events are for anyone who shares the same ethos: ship things, stay curious, be generous with what you know. You'll find senior engineers who've been in the Ruby community for 15 years alongside designers, PMs, and founders who are building with AI for the first time. What everyone has in common is they're actually making things and they're excited about it.

​Each event: three talks, good conversation, and plenty of time to connect with people who are navigating this moment alongside you.

​​Important: Please bring a valid photo ID that matches your RSVP for admission.

​​Agenda

• ​​6:00-6:45: Arrive, mingle, drinks and refreshments

• ​​6:45-7:00: Intros

• ​​7:00-8:00: Demos

• ​​8:00-9:00: Food, drinks and connections

​​Demos / Talks

​Jon Berger: The NeverEnding Vibecodes

​Brian Hecht: Confessions of a New Builder
I spent 20 years as a founder and 10 as an investor and I've never written a line of code in my life. Then one day I met Claude and built an entire suite of productivity tools in a week. I'll show you what I built and why I've decided to form a company around it!

​Avi Flombaum: Don't Read the Code: Trusting AI With Your Rails Codebase
Learn to let go with AI so you don't even need to read your code. See an AI harness for Rails apps that writes code to fit your app, patterns, and your team. We'll generate an app that ships with workflow skills, conventions, and agent hooks that will let us one-shot the most complicated thing you can come up with and then read the code. While Claude works on that, we'll cover the AI harness and how it works.

If you are interested in speaking at future events, please fill out the form below. The demos are usually about 10 minutes and feature a cool AI tool or feature built in Ruby/Rails.

​​https://forms.gle/k2NyKQJYiXCF5L2w6

​​Sponsors

​Test Double is a software consulting agency whose senior developers and product managers embed with your team to solve hard problems and drive business results. 100% employee-owned and remote, they've been improving how the world builds software since 2011 with deep expertise in Ruby, Rails, and pragmatic AI. Hitting a blocker? Talk to someone else who gets it.

​​OmbuLabs offers custom development of classic machine learning models and AI-powered systems. We are the friendly folks behind FastRuby.io and your favorite open source projects for remediating tech debt.

​Sublayer is helping teams learn and ship with AI through essays, tutorials, coaching, community meetups, and real products.

​​Def Method pours love into Ruby applications until the applications love you back. We are the authors of Phoenix, the AI-powered Rails testing system that helps you ship faster and with more confidence.

​Gusto is a people platform that helps growing businesses onboard, pay, insure, and support their hardworking teams with payroll, benefits, and more.

​​Host

​​​Betaworks: Betaworks is a product-focused, seed-stage venture capital fund. We are thematic by design, we immerse ourselves in irruption-phase technologies and work with founders and our community to understand new user behavior.

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