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Valerie Phoenix

@digitalblkhippy

(She/Her) Founder of Tech by Choice ✊🏾 Artist 🎨 Senior Engineering Leader πŸ’» Speaker 🎀 Psychology Enthusiast 🧠 Your Local Cali Hippie 🌴 πŸ‘©πŸΎβ€πŸ¦±πŸŒ΄ Ready to support diversity in tech? - http://techbychoice.org/

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Same. I’m noticing things are getting easier by default and I think I have a better understanding of how I like to use the tool. Do you feel the same as far as getting your workflow down?

04.03.2026 13:05 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Building a venture collective that’s already picking up traction and at most we’re all working 4 days a week

02.03.2026 23:07 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

AI has made my role equivalent to a cobalt developer πŸ™ƒ

02.03.2026 16:45 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

As someone who has worked at ML focused tech companies, happy to say it’s not us it’s the insurance companies πŸ™ƒ

25.02.2026 19:18 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Pitching in front of investors while having a baby strapped to me was not on my bingo card for 2026.

The baby yes. The securing investor money, no lol.

25.02.2026 17:34 πŸ‘ 6 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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Last night I drafted a blog post talking about how AI without safeguards are making technology unpredictable

This morning we have google pushing a slur out in an alert πŸ˜΅β€πŸ’«

This seems unreal. The damage these workflows are causing should really demand change

www.patreon.com/posts/151575...

25.02.2026 00:57 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Amazon's AI deleted a production environment. 13hrs of downtime. Response? "User error."

If we wouldn't give the intern this access, why are we giving it to AI?

Full breakdown + framework: patreon.com/posts/151575917

24.02.2026 21:00 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I really found my sweet spot.

We went from getting a start up, early revenue through an pilot to getting in front of pre-investors to close the very first round and less than 90 days.

18.02.2026 18:12 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I love reading you’re threads about these things β™₯️

18.02.2026 06:53 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Thanks for replying. We have a big customer demo so I hope things are moving in the right direction 🀞🏾

13.02.2026 04:24 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I've been building mostly at nights and early in the mornings so I can have a "normal" day but this seems to be the time that railway goes down πŸ™ƒ

3 days in a role my peak working time has been thrown off because my hosting service can't stay up?!?

13.02.2026 01:16 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0

Coming back to this we got the green light. We’re now in talks about rolling out the pilot

✨

08.02.2026 23:19 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Excited for my first girls night out tomorrow πŸ₯°

08.02.2026 03:37 πŸ‘ 7 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I know people are saying ai can design but no matter how good the prompt is, it’s not as good as a human touch.

07.02.2026 02:07 πŸ‘ 5 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

My favorite thing to do is create branding for businesses. I’ve gotten to create very distinct branding for multiple apps over the last weeks and I love the concepts I’m able to come up with.

And this is something that ai can’t get right either.

07.02.2026 02:07 πŸ‘ 7 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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a man in a suit and tie is standing in front of a wall covered in posters . ALT: a man in a suit and tie is standing in front of a wall covered in posters .

Explaining to my husband, how important it is for all of us to have matching Bad Bunny tshirts to watch the Super Bowl halftime from our bed

07.02.2026 00:20 πŸ‘ 8 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Here’s my hot take on opus 4.6, Claude new model

It’s still only as good as your own ability to think. AI can do the work, but you have to still do the thinking

I don’t know if I’m Just jaded, but it doesn’t seem to ever meet my expectation without iterations

06.02.2026 14:46 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Getting a night nurse was 10/10 worth it. My only regret so far was not getting a postpartum doula.

02.02.2026 23:12 πŸ‘ 6 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

This week I have a meeting to close a large deal to that will position my first big project under my new venture as a nationally launched service

Pulling this off provides for the team and proves the new building model I made

02.02.2026 18:32 πŸ‘ 7 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 1

Happy Black History Month

Please remember our history didn't start with with slavery πŸ–€

02.02.2026 01:24 πŸ‘ 8 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I’m building my second mobile app and honestly this one is so cute! I can’t wait to show everyone what it looks like β™₯️

01.02.2026 20:08 πŸ‘ 5 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Lmfao this 100% explains my confusion

29.01.2026 19:35 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

My next goal is to make my pre tech yearly income in one month ✨

29.01.2026 17:03 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

You can β€œgo live” on here?

I feel like I’ve missed a lot

28.01.2026 12:33 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0
Hello Kitty laying down flat on the floor with the view of the back of their head with stress bubbles around her with the little ghost version of yourself hovering above her showing that she’s exhausted

Hello Kitty laying down flat on the floor with the view of the back of their head with stress bubbles around her with the little ghost version of yourself hovering above her showing that she’s exhausted

All my devices are below 5% and I feel like this also reflects how I feel

27.01.2026 15:02 πŸ‘ 5 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

That happy part was me lying. This shit gives me anxiety sometimes because I’m just sitting there like β€œwtf are you watching!” And never get a clear answer πŸ˜‚πŸ€£

It’s only funny after that moment of anxiety leaves

26.01.2026 03:11 πŸ‘ 8 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I’ve had my new title for two months now πŸ₯Ή

26.01.2026 03:08 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Every time I pop my head up to see what’s going on I run back to my little corner because none of this feels real πŸ₯²

26.01.2026 03:03 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

My autocorrect now corrects things to my mistakes πŸ™ƒ I’m in way too deep

26.01.2026 03:02 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

My moms favorite thing to do is to watch YouTube videos and tell me about it as she’s watching them

but she will never send me a link or tell me the name of the video or the channel

she doesn’t give enough details that I fully know what’s going on

But it makes her happy so I’m happy lol

26.01.2026 02:56 πŸ‘ 14 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0