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Peter Dedene @dedene.bsky.social · 56m

My advice for beginners:

You are not your user.

The feature *you* think is brilliant is the one they will ignore.
The button *you* think is obvious is the one they will never find.

Humility is the core skill of good design.

Peter Dedene @dedene.bsky.social · 1h

My #1 time-saving process:

If a task takes 5 minutes, I do it immediately.
If it takes longer, it goes on a list.

This tiny rule so often clears my mental RAM for the real work.

Peter Dedene @dedene.bsky.social · 4h

The short-term future isn't AGI doing everything.

It's you doing 10x more because the boring parts take 10x less time. I think that will be the actual revolution AI brings.

Peter Dedene @dedene.bsky.social · 5h

Scaling is a choice, not an obligation.

A $1M/year business with 80% margins is better than a $100M/year business that makes your life miserable.

Peter Dedene @dedene.bsky.social · 6h

GPT-5.1 Thinking spotted in the OpenAI site’s source code 👀

Peter Dedene @dedene.bsky.social · 15h

💡 Pro Tip: Want updates only for when a Github Issue gets resolved? Skip the chatter and click "customize" above the Notifications button.

Peter Dedene @dedene.bsky.social · 1d

Being a founder is choosing which fire to put out first, daily.

Peter Dedene @dedene.bsky.social · 1d

The very valuable skill a new developer can learn is how to ask a good question.

A good question includes:
1. What you tried.
2. What you expected.
3. What you got.

It saves *everyone* time and shows you did the work before asking.

Peter Dedene @dedene.bsky.social · 1d

Want to build things that people love?

1. Find a niche.
2. Get to know them.
3. Solve a 5/10 problem and turn it into a 2/10 problem.

Don't try to solve a straight 10/10 problem. It's too hard.

Peter Dedene @dedene.bsky.social · 1d

You'll spend more time on proposals, invoices, taxes, and legal stuff than you ever imagined.

The product is 20% of the job. The business is the other 80%.

Peter Dedene @dedene.bsky.social · 1d

xAI reportedly told employees they had to submit their face and voice to train Ani. It was a "job requirement."

Hiring people then licensing their faces worldwide is a weird way to say "user research". The future of work is weirder than we thought.

More: www.theverge.com/news/814168...

xAI used employee biometric data to train Elon Musk’s AI girlfriend

Project Skippy?

www.theverge.com

Peter Dedene @dedene.bsky.social · 2d

AI gender reveal videos are getting out of hand.

Peter Dedene @dedene.bsky.social · 2d

The AI hype will fade. But the tools will stay.

Same thing happened with mobile, cloud, and every other "transformation." The noise leaves, the value remains.

Peter Dedene @dedene.bsky.social · 2d

My design process is simple:

1. Build the ugliest version that works.
2. Use it.
3. See what's annoying.
4. Fix *only* that.

This avoids weeks of polishing a useless feature.

Peter Dedene @dedene.bsky.social · 2d

Does your coding agent get stuck on long tasks?

This video on MiniMax-M2 highlights "interleaved thinking", where the model re-evaluates and corrects mid-generation.

It might be key getting it to run without a human nudging the agent.
👉 youtu.be/JQJocOSsM2c

MiniMax M2 + GPT-5 Codex + My Workflow: This is HOW YOU SHOULD USE MiniMax M2 for BEST RESULTS!

In this video, I’ll be sharing how I use Minimax for long-running, agentic coding workflows, why interleaved thinking matters, which tools support it (Cline,...

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Peter Dedene @dedene.bsky.social · 2d

I see LLMs like interns with photographic memory.

Great recall, zero judgment.
You still need to know what questions to ask.

Peter Dedene @dedene.bsky.social · 2d

Local models taught me patience I didn't know I had.