People keep telling me how cute my baby is But the lack of sleep has reduced my already very limited filter. Funniest response I gave recently was “thanks it really hurt to push her out 😀”
Valerie Phoenix
@digitalblkhippy.bsky.social
Fractional CTO for startups @ Phoenixing → Idea → production in months I build compliant, human-centered systems in AI, healthcare, fintech, and fast-growth apps. From architecture to first customer. 🎨 Artist | 🧠 Psychology | 🌴 Your Local Cali Hippie
Do I have someone in my network that works at deepgram?
As a society we need to put down the TikTok and pick up the YouTube
It’s Black Maternal Health Week and I think it’s time to share why I disappeared 2025 and slowly coming back. The joys of bringing life met the complexities of being a Black Woman.
So if you get accept to YC or on Forbes 30 under 30 there a high probability you’re committing fraud
Someone trying to one up me: oh I went to X school, a lot harder to get into then the school you went to Me: oh ya, I taught at that school for a bit, but nice to know you went there ☺️
Took my first consultation call for a fractional CTO role today ✨ Got to deep dive into a new project and find the gaps I can help with.
Coding a website by hand today just to feel something
You know, why haven’t we explored Black people in the magical world of Harry Potter and what we would be able to do with our hair?
Ok who has advice for a first time mom getting ready to go back to work? I wfh full time and my little one will be 5 months when I go back
“Somewhere on Earth, someone remembers you for something you forgot you ever did. And that version of you lives forever in their head…” even if that version no longer exists for you.
Today has been terrible. That is all. I can usually see the positive in everything but today I can’t. Still not the worst day of my life but wow does today suck.
Without naming your job, tell me something you say over and over again at work. Have you talked to the person/team that’s blocking you?
Without naming your job, tell me something you say over and over again at work. did you check scale on the y axis first?
Today is a day where I just want to make art Because I’m mourning the creative parts I’ve turned off in order to survive and thrive
Holding space for how the stress of todays words is affecting our elders who might not have the skills to dig deeper and find information like we can
The better of a dev you are, the better you are with gen coding tools AI is amplifying bad patters that devs have Mostly because leadership team are creating environments that allows this to happen When failures happens it's a systems issues.
Railway has to be a prime example of why vibe coding doesn’t work in enterprise. They have had more downtime and outages since saying they opened up to AI coding
I’m a parallel universe I’m someone who never forgets the point. I’m trying to make.
I thought the point of international women’s day was not to work to show the impact of women’s work. How did lovable and anthropomorphic get us to work today 😭
This week completed my first 100 days at the most in the most fulfilling role I’ve had in my life.
Building a venture collective that’s already picking up traction and at most we’re all working 4 days a week
AI has made my role equivalent to a cobalt developer 🙃
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.
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 😵💫 This seems unreal. The damage these workflows are causing should really demand change www.patreon.com/posts/151575...
When AI Deletes Production | Valerie Phoenix
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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
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.
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 🙃 3 days in a role my peak working time has been thrown off because my hosting service can't stay up?!?