Tiny Little Robot Friends

Tiny Little Robot Friends

AI-augmented development for small teams

Series

Epic4 articles

Epic: From 317 Lines to 166 — A Controller Refactoring Journey

·RailsRefactoringArchitecture

A four-part series documenting the systematic refactoring of a bloated admin controller into clean, reusable patterns.

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Epic4 articles

Epic: From Scrape to Suggestion — Building an AI-Powered Recruiting Pipeline

·AI ToolingArchitectureRails

A four-part series building an end-to-end AI recruiting pipeline — from scraping job listings to generating personalized candidate messages.

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Articles

Strategy

Building Production Scrapers: Concurrency, Checkpoints, and Failure Recovery

·ArchitectureRails

How to build web scrapers that handle thousands of pages, recover from failures, and parallelize LLM calls without hitting rate limits.

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Strategy

Human-in-the-Loop ML: Building Quality Control Into AI Pipelines

·AI ToolingArchitecture0→1 Strategy

Why every production ML system needs human oversight — and practical patterns for building it into your pipeline from day one.

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Strategy

Zero-Downtime Table Renames on Heroku

·RailsArchitecture

Heroku's release phase creates a race condition during destructive migrations. Here's how to rename tables without errors using PostgreSQL views.

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Strategy

AI-Assisted Refactoring: A Process That Creates Content

·AI Tooling0→1 StrategyRails

How to use AI tools to refactor code and generate blog content from the same conversation.

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