Admit one Helvetic Ruby · 2025
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Hi, I'm Yara.
I'm an AI engineer (new chapter! p.3) who still thinks in Ruby, a speaker who asks slightly-too-big questions, and on weekends I squish air-dry clay and smudge oil pastels.
→ this notebook is where I think out loud: code, art, philosophy, and learning AI in public.
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where does the code come from?
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if found, please return to Barcelona
currently… reading: Big Magic by Elizabeth Gilbertlearning: Use AI to build FullCirclesculpting: Fall inspired pieceswondering: how can I embrace this weather to the max
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how I got here
Plot twist: I didn't start coding out of passion. It was practical, comfortable, and a little grey.
To really connect with it, I had to make logic appealing to a dreamy mind. First I found art in code. Then philosophy. Now I'm learning what all of that means in the age of AI.
the chapters so far →
3- prologue · 2020 the practical choice Computer engineering. Code was sensible, not a calling, yet.
- chapter 1 · 2022 Rails @ Factorial User-focused web app, a soft spot for clean code, and mentoring, bridging vision and development.
- chapter 2 · 2025-26 on stage Painting meets programming at Helvetic Ruby. Then Plato, Aristotle, Hegel and Kant walk into a Rails talk.
- chapter 3 · now ★ AI engineer Factorial. AI raised the floor on how; I’m here for the why.
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things I said on stage
Admit one Rubycon · 2026
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made with my hands
Air-dry clay and oil pastels: where I go when the code needs to rest.
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notes & essays
- Fullcircle: From saved to livednew! fullcircle
- The wondering was always the job philosophy
- Name it, and the next person can think it philosophy
- The developer who kept the cache was being wise philosophy
- Why does bad code bother us when it works? philosophy
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things I said on stage
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Air-dry clay and oil pastels: where I go when the code needs to rest.
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notes & essays
- Fullcircle: From saved to lived
- The wondering was always the job
- Name it, and the next person can think it
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