Obie Fernandez - Empowering the Individual: Rails on AI - Rails World 2024

Learn how to effectively integrate AI into Rails apps using patterns like worker swarms & role assignment. Practical tips for predictable AI interactions & automation.

Key takeaways
  • Use AI code completion tools like Cursor and Copilot to accelerate development and reduce manual coding
  • Narrow the scope and context when working with AI to get more accurate results - be specific about constraints, domain, and desired outcomes
  • Implement “multitude of workers” pattern - discrete AI components that handle specific tasks within your Rails application
  • Use role assignment pattern to give AI specific personas and capabilities for different tasks
  • Create API facades to bridge between general AI assistants and specific application functionality
  • Break down complex AI interactions into smaller, focused components rather than having one large AI system try to handle everything
  • Leverage AI for features like self-healing data, anomaly detection, and dynamic user experiences
  • Extract business logic and workflow automation into AI components while keeping them as code modules within your application
  • Structure AI prompts carefully to get predictable, repeatable results - include explicit instructions and context
  • Consider AI components as collaborative objects that can communicate with each other through messages, similar to object-oriented design principles