Boulder Ruby October 2025 Presentation Night
Join us at our monthly gathering where we present topics of interest to Rubyists and aspiring programmers.
Doors open at 6:00pm, where you can hangout and socialize with other Boulder Ruby members.
We also have a zoom at https://us06web.zoom.us/j/86988064634?pwd=RhnyR0iYNx47LASqjdOLQbAFxq9GX3.1 if you want to join online.
At 6:30, we do announcements before getting to our presentations.
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Talk 1:
Frameworks as Pidgins and Creoles: How Humans Will Talk to AI About Software - By Scott Werner of Sublayer.
As AI agents get better at writing code, the question on everyone's mind is “do we still need frameworks?” This talk argues that linguistics gives us an answer in the concepts of pidgins and creoles. First new frameworks will start as pidgins, shared dialects that humans and AIs use to coordinate intent, architecture, and invariants, and then once they've been around long enough to make it into the training data they turn into creoles.
We’ll unpack the pidgin→creole analogy, and demonstrate a practical path in Ruby using VSM: an agent framework and ruby gem Scott is building to explore these ideas. Expect a short live demo of building scoped CLI agent with custom tools, self‑introspection, and code generation, followed by a discussion of how these patterns make working with code generating AI easier and increase your chances of receiving working code with as little effort as possible. You’ll leave with a better understanding of how to build AI‑era software that collaborates with agents rather than fighting against them.
Scott Werner has been a professional Rubyist for the last 10 years. He can be found everywhere from early stage startups to big companies as an engineer, manager, and founder. He was an early engineer @ Sidetour (acquired by Groupon), CTO of SaySpring (acquired by Adobe, and most recently that team released Adobe Podcasts). Now Scott is CEO and co-founder of Sublayer, where they're focused on the future of software development with AI. They're building APM, a MacOS app to help you multitask more effectively with agents, and the VSM gem, a recursive agent framework based on the ideas of Stafford Beer and Cybernetics.
Scott also writes at Works on My Machine, where he builds an AI experiment (usually in Ruby!) and shares thoughts about it every week.
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If you would like to present at this meeting, or at upcoming events, reach out to the organizers on this meetup, contact us in the #ruby channel on TechFriends, or ping us at @boulderruby.