Ruby Content and AI in the newsletter

Every week I curate what the Ruby community shares online and publish it in Short Ruby Newsletter.  In the last few months, I noticed a pattern that looks a lot like what happened with TDD in the early days. The Ruby community is experimenting again. Or at least this is how it feels to me.
As a curator, I spend time every week looking at what the Ruby community shares and talks about.  Let me share here few points I see: 

• Ruby code samples shared on social media are trending down. Posts about using AI and LLMs with Ruby are trending up.
• Article about Ruby and Ruby content seems not to be so much affected by this. There is an increase in articles about using AI and Ruby but there are still good technical articles published. 
• A vocal part of the Ruby community is embracing AI and LLM tooling.
• In general, the approach I see is not hyped-based, but there are many experiments on code quality and on how to use AI/LLMs to create better, faster products.
• I am happy that the Ruby community is running with this. New gems are being published. New skills are being shared. This brings me back to the early days of the Ruby community when we experimented a lot with web frameworks and pushed the boundaries of what could be done.

Another example that I think shaped our ways of working and producing software was TDD. It is maybe too early to tell if we are in the early days of a Cambrian explosion of using AI/LLMs in daily coding life, but could we be there as we were with TDD? Look around at testing frameworks in other languages and see the impact RSpec had on them. So the newsletter is reflecting this reality of our community and I try as a curator to make sure that I include what the community talks about every week.  The scope of the newsletter remains the same: primarily focused on code samples, news, gem releases, articles, and videos. AI and LLM content is there as it should be, showing where community interest lies.