OMG, π let's cram an AI agent into a 7-year-old Rails monolith without breaking it, because who doesn't love a game of Jenga with sensitive data? π Watch as this Director of Engineering heroically blends #RubyLLM, #Pundit policies, and #Algolia search to create a Frankenstein-esque hybrid that nobody asked for. π©π»
https://catalinionescu.dev/ai-agent/building-ai-agent-part-1/ #AIintegration #Railsmonolith #HackerNews #ngated
https://catalinionescu.dev/ai-agent/building-ai-agent-part-1/ #AIintegration #Railsmonolith #HackerNews #ngated

Building an AI agent inside a 7-year old Rails application
We run a multi-tenant Rails application with sensitive data and layered authorization. In this post, I walk through how I added the first AI agent tool using RubyLLM, Pundit policies, and our existing Algolia search, without introducing a parallel system or loosening constraints.