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1. What a time to be alive (tenderlovemaking.com)

Today Reuters and the Wall Street Journal both reported about rogue AI agents at OpenAI attacking RubyGems.org. https://www.rubyhack.ai/ has an amazing writeup, and you should read it. I just wanted to make a quick post about it because it’s wild. TL;DR: It seems like OpenAI Bots knew about this cac...

Aaron Patterson Sep 12, 2026 read 🤖 Summary

2. Detecting Full Table Scans With SQLite (tenderlovemaking.com)

I’m at RubyConf this week, and it’s great! I recently read that lobste.rs is now running on SQLite. One part from the post caught my attention: I wish we could say in a test, “Fail if you encounter any full table scans”. Which would have caught the perf issues we experienced during the first deploy....

Aaron Patterson Jul 15, 2026 read 🤖 Summary