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timryesterday at 8:29 AM1 replyview on HN

I don't remember every interaction I had with you folks, but that wasn't the only one. Also, the same PR was reverted a bit later, IIRC -- I think I made a mistake in my PR or it wasn't compatible with some other use case, so that's fine, but the overall theme of the interactions (again, in my recollection) was that I was personally moving much faster than you, and using your library was hurting more than helping. So I stopped.

> It only showed up when reusing the same Rails chat object for multiple turns in the same Ruby object lifetime, e.g. `chat.ask("first"); chat.ask("second")` inside one controller action or one background job.

That happens all the time. Without it, you can't pass things around to functions that add to the chat, for example.

> The usual flow is one turn per request/job, where the record is reloaded each time.

This may be your usual flow, but it doesn't have to be everybody's usual flow. No offense, but you're currently reminding me of what I interpreted as "chilly reactions" at the time.

> Gemini tool calling shipped in 1.0, schema support landed in 1.4, and observability landed in 1.16.

Great! I did them myself in less time. It's entirely possible that your library, today, is the tool I needed then.

> As for "the most trivial of applications": check the docs. RubyLLM goes well beyond that, and several multi-million-dollar companies use it in production every day.

OK. Cool. If they want to use the software, I'm sure nothing I say will convince them otherwise.


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earcaryesterday at 8:39 AM

Thanks for litigating every layer of a bug I fixed 27 minutes after your comment, more than a year ago.

> Also, the same PR was reverted a bit later, IIRC

No. Your #151 was merged. The regressions it introduced were patched the next day in #157/#159.

Cheers!

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