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  1. How to choose and implement an LLM for your healthcare product

    Choosing and implementing the right large language model for healthcare requires balancing security, economics, and inevitable hallucinations. Here’s what you need to know before integrating AI into your product.

    Richard Newman and Michelle Taute
    February 27, 2026
    • Health Tech
    • AI
    • Llm
  2. Claude Code skills: Automating FDA-required documentation for software as a medical device

    Generating and maintaining FDA-required documentation for software as a medical device can be tedious and time-consuming. We built a Claude Code skill to automate documentation for 510(k) submissions.

    Damian Galarza, Chad Pytel & Michelle Taute
    February 25, 2026
    • Claude
    • AI
    • Health Tech
  3. Going beyond vibe coding with ReadySetGo

    Introducing ReadySetGo. An AI application generator that creates first versions of products, built in Rails, to thoughtbot’s best practices. Not throwaway, vibe-coded prototypes. Real foundations that can be built upon.

    Chad Pytel
    February 19, 2026
    • News
    • Readysetgo
    • AI
  4. Claude Code: Production ready code in a two-week sprint

    AI-generated code doesn’t have to be throwaway code. Here’s how we used Claude Code to build a fully-tested, production-quality Rails prototype in two weeks, complete with a robust test suite, clean commits, and code we were proud to have written.

    Chad Pytel, Louis Antonopoulos & Michelle Taute
    February 9, 2026
    • AI
    • Prototyping
    • Rails
  5. Code audits in the days of AI - A new Claude skill

    Run a code audit on your Rails app using thoughtbot’s best practices with this new Claude skill.

    Jose Blanco
    January 20, 2026
    • Artificial Intelligence
    • Rails
    • Code Audit
    • Claude
    • AI
    • Development
  6. Building programmable QA with AI

    What’s one of the biggest challenges with using AI for QA? It’s the lack of programmability. We set out to find a solution by pairing Playwright MCP with several different LLM models. Find out where we landed.

    Chad Pytel, Clarissa Borges & Michelle Taute
    January 14, 2026
    • AI
    • Automation
    • Llm
  7. Rapid prototyping with Claude Code: How we transformed our design sprint process

    We’ve been running product design sprints for over a decade. Now Claude and Claude Code are helping us prototype faster than ever—without sacrificing quality. Here’s how we built a working prototype in hours, not days.

    Chad Pytel, Kevin Kwon & Michelle Taute
    January 13, 2026
    • AI
    • Design Sprint
    • Design
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    • Product Design Sprint
  8. Prevent the Robocalypse with Claude Code and TDD

    Write tests first or watch Claude blow everything up. Your choice.

    Louis Antonopoulos
    January 12, 2026
    • Ruby
    • Rails
    • AI
    • Llm
  9. ChatGPT agent: Experimenting with QA automation

    Doing manual QA can be slow and tedious, but can ChatGPT agent handle real product QA? We ran a few experiments checking FrontrowMD widgets across sample web pages and discovered a lot of potential—plus a few pitfalls.

    Chad Pytel, Michelle Taute & Yaser Mahmoud
    January 6, 2026
    • AI
    • Automation
  10. How to use LLMs without driving your team mad

    Three AI anti-patterns that consistently frustrate development teams, and how to avoid them.

    Jimmy Thigpen
    November 17, 2025
    • AI
    • Llm
    • Artificial Intelligence
    • Development
    • Productivity
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