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Peter Dedene
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AI Explorer · Building apps in Ruby, Elixir & NodeJS · Digital Artisan, Musician & Entrepreneur · Partner at Zenjoy
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The biggest mistake for a SaaS:
asking for 10 fields on a sign-up form.
“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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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.
I miss when the web was built by weirdos in their basements.
My brain just has too many open tabs. 🤯
Thinking about the "long, boring middle" of a project. It's not glamorous, but it's where 99% of the real work happens.
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.
kyutai.org
Atlas and Comet are AI-native.
Brave is privacy-native.
Chrome is ad-native.

Choose your fighter.
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.
Hot take:
TypeScript doesn't make you a better developer.
It only makes your mistakes more obvious earlier.
The biggest mistake founders make:
believing you can copy someone else's path to success.
I'm so grateful for open-source maintainers.
They truly are the unpaid mechanics of the entire internet.
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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The two states of any developer:

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

There is no in-between.
I almost forgot: it’s my favorite 25-hour day of the year. 😴
My PRs usually get comments about syntax.
@CodeRabbit gave me a poem about MJML.

Details matter. Also for devs.
How to exit Vim:

1. Try everything.
2. Fail.
3. Restart the computer.
Happy Saturday all. 😁 Are we pretending to relax today or are we debugging with the family in the room?
Started using Git worktrees last month.

Where has this been all my life?
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.
Founder life:

Where weekends are just weekdays without meetings.
Happy Devs make happy code.

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

Developer Experience matters.
Remember when "going online" was an event you announced to your entire household?
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 ✅
Phoenix LiveView is what React wanted to be...
but without the JavaScript update fatigue.