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This week, web development takes a confident leap forward. Claude gets introspective, Gemini moves into your browser, and Google’s Stitch promises cleaner UI code with zero pixel panic. Shopify’s widget set is ready for prime time, and Microsoft? They just dropped 50+ new tools to redefine how workflows run.
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This week, we’re sharing another slice of our interview with GoRails founder Chris Oliver; this time on generative AI and where it falls short. Chris shares why today’s dev tools still feel a bit behind, and what would make them truly useful in the trenches. Spoiler: speed and specificity matter more than hype.
Chris Oliver is a software developer based in St. Louis, Missouri. He's an expert in Ruby on Rails and the founder of GoRails, a platform helping Rails devs learn, build, and deploy their ideas. He’s also a conference speaker and podcaster, known for bringing clarity to the complexity of modern web dev.
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Packt:Have you used Generative AI in your development workflows, and what are your views on how effective it is?
Chris Oliver: Oftentimes when I work these days, I'm not Google searching things that often anymore.
I go straight to the source code for libraries and look at what blew up. I want to see what it expected, what its reasoning was for doing this logic.
Then I can understand where I went wrong much better. When we get to the point where we can take that context and tell Cursor or whatever, “Hey, I'm using Rails, I have this error, I'm on Rails version 6.1,” and it can load up Rails 6.1 source code on GitHub and analyze that.
When it can be that specific and fine-tuned, I think we’re going to get an incredibly powerful helper that can code along with you and be extremely accurate.
But part of the issue now is that it’s indexing everything on the Internet, which may or may not be accurate. We already have a hard enough time figuring out if we’re looking at old Rails documentation on a blog post versus the latest version.
Until that improves, that’s where I struggle with it. I want it to work, and I want to be able to use it.
Also, it’s a little bit too slow today. Waiting for Claude to generate code for a couple of minutes feels like sitting and waiting for your code to compile, which we don’t do in Ruby, because it’s interpreted on the fly.
So it kind of feels like stepping back in time. I sit and wait, get distracted, open TikTok or something on my phone, and I end up getting pulled out of the zone, waiting for it to finish.
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