Chris, Andrew, and David catch up on health, sleep deprivation, and the new Invincible season and Fallout. David shares some RubyConf CFP submissions news and this year’s broad conference themes. They discuss Andrew finishing difficult authentication work, touching on OAuth/SSO complexity and pricing, the idea of products built more for bots than humans, and where AI is proving useful, especially for debugging and research. The conversation eventually widens into a more skeptical look at the AI industry itself, touching on scraped code, deepfakes, surveillance, lobbying, and whether the promised productivity gains really match reality. Hit download now!

Links

• Judoscale- Remote Ruby listener gift
• Invincible
• Fallout
• Robby Russell X
• Sam Altman X
• Ghostty
• Ruby 4.0.2 Released
• RubyConf: July 14-16, 2026, Las Vegas, NV
• Rails World 2026- September 23-24, Austin, TX (Update)

• Chris Oliver X/Twitter
• Andrew Mason X/Twitter
• Jason Charnes X/Twitter

On this episode, Andrew’s buried in messy authentication work spread across legacy code, Chris recounts a frustrating GitHub Actions debugging session, and David explains the mental drain of working across both Vue 2 and Vue 3 in the same application. They talk about using workflow run triggers, scheduled builds, and GitHub’s new Agentic Copilot workflows such as CI Doctor, Automatic Code Simplifier, and issue/PR management, while lamenting low-quality AI-generated PRs and paid AI code review tools. Andrew makes a special announcement about Blastoff Rails, they compare LazyVim, lazy.nvim, and Kickstart Neovim, we hear about Ruby 3.4.9 and its bug-fix release, and Marco Roth’s Herb improvements for ERB tooling. Hit download now to hear more!

Links

• Judoscale- Remote Ruby listener gift
• Upload-artifact v7.0.0 (GitHub)
• Download-artifact v8.0.0 (GitHub)
• GitHub Agentic Workflows
• Bringing Code Review to Claude Code
• Scott’s Pizza Tours
• Blastoff Rails-June 11-12, 2026, Albuquerque, New Mexico
• Learn Enough Bridgetown to be Dangerous (Andrew’s talk)
• lazy.nvim
• LazyVim
• kickstart.nvim
• kickstart-modular.nvim
• Tree-sitter
• Herb
• Marco Roth X (Herb)

• Chris Oliver X/Twitter
• Andrew Mason X/Twitter
• Jason Charnes X/Twitter

Chris and David welcome back Adam McCrea from Judoscale, to discuss the uncertainty around Heroku after Salesforce’s announcement that it would stop taking new enterprise customers. Adam shares how the news landed in real time during a founder’s retreat, and the conversation expands into what Heroku’s apparent “maintenance mode” means for developers, pricing, autoscaling, platform alternatives, and the broader challenge of building durable developer businesses in the AI era. They also touch on Judoscale’s upcoming “platform tour” and the value of smaller Ruby conferences. Hit download now to hear more!

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Chris Oliver X

Andrew Mason Bluesky

David Hill LinkedIn

Judoscale- Remote Ruby listener gift

Adam McCrea X

Adam McCrea LinkedIn

Judoscale

Remote Ruby-Episode 163: Autoscaling Rails with Adam McCrea

Heroku: What’s Next by Jon Sully (Judoscale Blog)

An update on Heroku by Nitin T Bhat

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Rails World 2026, September 23-24, 2026, Austin, TX

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• Andrew Mason X/Twitter
• Jason Charnes X/Twitter