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[jorgemanrubia]

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[samkravitz]

Hello, big thanks for opening this discussion and to 37signals for open sourcing Fizzy! I've been a rails developer for about 5 years. I have no plans to deploy fizzy myself, but have been running it locally to study the code and improve my skills. This repo contains a wealth of knowledge on newer rails features for someone who's been working in rails 6 land for the past several years. I hope to connect with other rails devs using fizzy, and thanks again!

[dilberryhoundog]

Hi Everybody. Ive been running bricks and mortar businesses for nearly 20 years.

The biggest advantage gain vs competitors I have found was to incorporate custom logic and digital management into a standard business. For me this meant over a period of 10 years, trying 20 different productivity platforms (notion, airtable) and countless low code tools (bubble, wappler, ZOHO creator), made good progress but still very clunky.

Side note: I believe a significant portion of future software will be bespoke custom business solutions, not one size fits all behemoths

Anyway, eventually I found Rails and Ruby about 2 years ago. In the beginning doing all the "Rails for dummies" courses still felt like struggling through knee high mud, it just wouldn't click. To make any progress required internalisation of hundreds of ascii symbols and patterns to just make it "do something". THEN about a year ago...

Ai arrived. Now I know that in this space Ai is a bit of a dirty word. But for me, Ai provided an abstraction level similar to the last huge shift in web abstraction when DHH made 1.week.ago abstract away pages of logic (20 years ago). Talking naturally in abstractions into a chat box, has allowed me to skip spending 95% of my time writing shitty code, excruciatingly slowly, just to learn something. I write better code, and especially read code magnitudinally better, by way of Ai abstraction than by learning the old way.

So the progression has been huge in one year. I'm still not a "programmer" by any means and I'm not interested in becoming one. But doing Rails and Ruby, while riding on the back of a noble steed called "Claude" has been a blast, almost to the point I've lost interest in running a physical business (I'm semi retired atm). DHH's modern vision for rails resonates, and opening up fizzy has been extremely fun. I've got heaps to share, Im a decent way through building a "Quick and dirty" fizzy automation system using Claude Code CURL API calls. I'm going to tackle setting up a gallery in Lexxy. These are bold things, for a "newb" like me, but this level of getting it to "do something" is intoxicating.

Its a strange situation to be in though. I've found about 4 significant bugs so far in fizzy and fixed them on my local branches, but when I wrote my first PR a few weeks ago to present these, getting tangled in Git as 100's of changes are coming into the app daily, and not understanding PR protocols, and being honest about Ai, has seem to cool off the maintainers from my contributions, or maybe I'm not pressing the right buttons on github, I don't know.

So thanks for reading, I'm probably a shock to have around, like you guys where to the OG web devs 20 years ago ( and the linux nerds with omarchy). I'm not a complete incompetent though, I think I'm pretty close to the "sweet spot" in generating quality abstraction ability from Claude. It is very easy to try to make Ai do too much for you, or on the other end of the spectrum, rely on your existing technical ability without embracing the abstractions (Rails has showed that care and competency are important when using abstractions, they aren't a guaranteed win).

My ideas and methods are quirky, but effective. I'm happy to be involved and interactive, I don't want to step on professional's toes, although its hard not to, with my inexperience. I learn by doing, and getting involved is a massive force multiplier, so I hope to continue contributing.

Thanks David, Jason and Co, you guys are legends for doing what you are doing.