Re:A Step Behind the Bleeding Edge: A Philosophy on AI in Dev
by yojat661 on Saturday January 31, 2026 @07:01PM
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Are these software popular? Are these maintainable long term? Are you getting feedback from users?
Re:A Step Behind the Bleeding Edge: A Philosophy on AI in Dev
by Kerrick on Sunday February 01, 2026 @06:45PM
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RatatuiRuby is pretty new still: its beta launch was Jan 20. Octobox's TUI is built on it [0], and Sidekiq is using it to build theirs [1].
I believe they'll be maintainable long-term, as they've got extensive tests and documentation, and I built a theory of the program [2] on the Ruby side of it as I reviewed and guided the agent's work.
I am getting feedback from users, the largest of which drove the creation of (and iteration upon) Rooibos. As a rendering library, RatatuiRuby doesn't do much to guide the design or architecture of an application. Rooibos is an MVU/TEA framework [3] to do exactly that.
Tokra is basically a tech demo at this stage, [4] so (hopefully) no users yet.
[0]: https://ruby.social/@[email protected]/1159351822843...
[1]: https://ruby.social/@getajobmike/115940044592981164
[2]: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/016560...
Those of us building are having so much fun we aren't slowing down to write think pieces.
I don't mean this flippantly. I'm a blogger. I love writing! But since a brief post on December 22 I haven't blogged because I have been too busy implementing incredible amounts of software with AI.
Since you'll want receipts, here they are:
- https://git.sr.ht/~kerrick/ratatui_ruby/tree/trunk/item/READ...
- https://git.sr.ht/~kerrick/rooibos/tree/trunk/item/README.rd...
- https://git.sr.ht/~kerrick/tokra/tree
Between Christmas and New Year's Day I was on vacation, so I had plenty of time. Since then, it's only been nights & weekends (and some early mornings and lunch breaks).