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Peter Dedene

Peter Dedene

@dedene.bsky.social

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AI Explorer · Building apps in Ruby, Elixir & NodeJS · Digital Artisan, Musician & Entrepreneur · Partner at Zenjoy

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Peter Dedene @dedene.bsky.social · 8h

The biggest mistake for a SaaS:
asking for 10 fields on a sign-up form.

Peter Dedene @dedene.bsky.social · 13h

“You can’t memo your way to being AI-first. You have to practice your way there.”

This is the central truth. AI fluency is a skill built from hands-on work and weekly small experiments.

youtu.be/1MHv4M163Vo 👉 Great interview with Wade Foster.

AI Agents, Clearly Explained in 40 Minutes | Wade Foster (Zapier)

Wade is the co-founder and CEO of Zapier. We’re both sick of everyone calling everything an “AI agent” so we had some real talk about what actually works ins...

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Peter Dedene @dedene.bsky.social · 14h

Lawyers are currently speedrunning to become prompt engineers.

As are marketeers, educators, product managers, data analysts, writers, artists, researchers, graphic designers, ui/ux designers, copywriters, content strategists, social media managers, etc

Yes, all of them. Everyone is speedrunning.

Peter Dedene @dedene.bsky.social · 15h

I miss when the web was built by weirdos in their basements.

Peter Dedene @dedene.bsky.social · 16h

My brain just has too many open tabs. 🤯

Peter Dedene @dedene.bsky.social · 17h

Thinking about the "long, boring middle" of a project. It's not glamorous, but it's where 99% of the real work happens.

Peter Dedene @dedene.bsky.social · 18h

Most voice AIs today don’t truly *hear* you.

They transcribe you. Even "speech-native" models still think in text. Neural audio codecs are the missing link. They let models think in sound, not words.

Once machines can *listen*, a lot will change.
👉 kyutai.org/next/codec-...

Why modeling audio is harder than text, and how to make it feasible with neural audio codecs.

Peter Dedene @dedene.bsky.social · 20h

Atlas and Comet are AI-native.
Brave is privacy-native.
Chrome is ad-native.

Choose your fighter.

Peter Dedene @dedene.bsky.social · 1d

If your "freedom machine" requires you to work 80 hours a week to keep it running, what did you actually build?

It's been on my mind lately.

Peter Dedene @dedene.bsky.social · 1d

Hot take:
TypeScript doesn't make you a better developer.
It only makes your mistakes more obvious earlier.

Peter Dedene @dedene.bsky.social · 1d

The biggest mistake founders make:
believing you can copy someone else's path to success.

Peter Dedene @dedene.bsky.social · 1d

I'm so grateful for open-source maintainers.
They truly are the unpaid mechanics of the entire internet.

Peter Dedene @dedene.bsky.social · 1d

OpenAI’s alignment challenge:
“Reward what you want, or the model learns to want what you reward.”

If you’ve ever managed engineers or toddlers, you’ve seen this before.

Watching this talk between Matt Turck and OpenAI's VP of Research Jerry Tworek was very insightful: youtu.be/RqWIvvv3SnQ

How GPT-5 Thinks — OpenAI VP of Research Jerry Tworek

What does it really mean when GPT-5 “thinks”? In this conversation, OpenAI’s VP of Research Jerry Tworek explains how modern reasoning models work in practic...

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Peter Dedene @dedene.bsky.social · 1d

The two states of any developer:

1. I am a debugging god.
2. I am a typo factory.

There is no in-between.

Peter Dedene @dedene.bsky.social · 1d

I almost forgot: it’s my favorite 25-hour day of the year. 😴

Peter Dedene @dedene.bsky.social · 1d

My PRs usually get comments about syntax.
@CodeRabbit gave me a poem about MJML.

Details matter. Also for devs.

Peter Dedene @dedene.bsky.social · 1d

How to exit Vim:

1. Try everything.
2. Fail.
3. Restart the computer.

image from https://www.linuxfordevices.com/tutorials/linux/exit-vim-editor

Peter Dedene @dedene.bsky.social · 1d

Happy Saturday all. 😁 Are we pretending to relax today or are we debugging with the family in the room?

Peter Dedene @dedene.bsky.social · 2d

Started using Git worktrees last month.

Where has this been all my life?

Peter Dedene @dedene.bsky.social · 2d

3 things I learned building with AI this month:

1. Prompting is 50% of the work
2. Context management is 40%
3. The actual code is 10%

Developing changed so much last year.

Peter Dedene @dedene.bsky.social · 2d

Founder life:

Where weekends are just weekdays without meetings.

Peter Dedene @dedene.bsky.social · 2d

Happy Devs make happy code.

They write better programs.
They do better work.
They are better team members and collaborators.

Developer Experience matters.

Peter Dedene @dedene.bsky.social · 2d

Remember when "going online" was an event you announced to your entire household?

Peter Dedene @dedene.bsky.social · 2d

How I choose what to build:

1. Do people have this problem?
2. Are they paying to solve it?
3. Can I build it?
4. Will I enjoy working on it?

All 4 need to be ✅

Peter Dedene @dedene.bsky.social · 3d

Phoenix LiveView is what React wanted to be...
but without the JavaScript update fatigue.