Jenna Pederson
@jennanerdsout.com
mom / staff developer advocate @ Pinecone
What if we’ve been preparing for this moment longer than we realize?
Are we the abstraction? AI and software engineering
AI coding agents feel different from every abstraction before them. How software engineering keeps moving—and what happens when the abstraction includes us.
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“The productivity gains are real, but the quality of the work and the sharpness of the person producing it are taking a hit.”
How tech workers actually feel about AI in 2026 | Annual AI sentiment survey (Noam Segal) — Lenny's Podcast: Product | Career | Growth
Noam Segal is a longtime research leader across Airbnb, Meta, Twitter, Zapier, Intercom, and Figma, a certified coach, AI builder, and my community research lead. Together, we run the annual Tech…
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The future isn’t gonna reward the people who generate the most code. It’ll reward the people who choose the right problems. This hasn’t changed with AI.
You can build it. Should you?
AI has made building software easier than ever. But the hardest question remains: should we build it? A reflection on why judgment, restraint, and knowing what not to build matter more in the age of…
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The barrier to building software is disappearing, but the bar for what deserves to be built is getting higher.
You can build it. Should you?
AI has made building software easier than ever. But the hardest question remains: should we build it? A reflection on why judgment, restraint, and knowing what not to build matter more in the age of…
jennapederson.com
Next Pinecone livestream is TOMORROW! Come laugh with Arjun Patel, Roie Schwaber-Cohen, and me like this as we catch up on topics we've been thinking about lately - memory, models, and Andrej Karpathy's latest viral tweet. 🗓️ Wednesday, April 22 ⏰ 10am PT / 1pm ET 📺 www.youtube.com/@pinecone-io...
Sending a guest the wrong property's thermostat instructions is a knowledge architecture problem, not a customer service one. The fix is a multi-domain RAG system using separate knowledge bases like Pinecone Assistant. My tutorial on the n8n blog shows how to build it. blog.n8n.io/build-multi-...
Build Multi-Domain RAG Systems with Specialized Knowledge Bases
In this step-by-step tutorial you'll learn how to route user questions based on context using AI agents, semantic search, and the Pinecone Assistant node.
blog.n8n.io
Thank you, Claude, for saving the day for my 3 year old (and me).
Just used ChatGPT to fix my MIL’s email account which had the language and timezone settings changed to a foreign language (was it a hacker or my 3 year old, we’ll never know). Still have a tech support job. Still takes just as long as the olden days.
Come work with me at Pinecone! We're hiring a Staff Developer Advocate, based in SF. It's a high-autonomy role for someone who can build *and* teach. This role will own Pinecone’s SF-area community presence. Know someone? Tag them or send them this posting 👇 www.pinecone.io/careers/4433...
How do you know if you need a vector database? My coworker Arjun Patel gives you the answer and demos some easy ways to get started on the latest Tool Use Podcast episode. youtu.be/36FDCiaE5zA
Interesting take from Elena Verna in this podcast episode: will we alienate the late majority while we're so focused on the pioneers? Are we missing out on the late majority? What does that do to business, product, and their experiences as they catch on All Things AI™️? overcast.fm/+6K1HUhkgA/1...
The new AI growth playbook for 2026: How Lovable hit $200M ARR in one year | Elena Verna (Head of Growth) — Lenny's Podcast: Product | Career | Growth
Elena Verna is the head of growth at Lovable, the leading AI-powered app builder that hit $200 million in annual recurring revenue in under a year with just 100 employees. In this record fourth…
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Watching women’s dual moguls with my toddler who says “Look mama! They’re dancing! I wanna go there.”
Does anyone else think the skeleton looks like the creeper you’d use to roll underneath a car? Sure looks like the one my dad had in the 80s.
Since I missed out on my Olympic dream of being a downhill skier should I take up Olympic drone pilot?
> Including ads in conversations with Claude would be incompatible with what we [Anthropic] want Claude to be: a genuinely helpful assistant for work and for deep thinking. 👏👏👏 www.anthropic.com/news/claude-...
Claude is a space to think | Anthropic
Anthropic explains why Claude will remain ad-free—how advertising incentives conflict with building a genuinely helpful AI assistant users can trust.
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Daily reminder that this is a great way to help MN. I’m going to try to stop fighting with non-Minnesotans online today.
Stand With Minnesota
A directory of places to give to as Minnesota defends itself from ICE occupation
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Photo by Pierre Lavie. Yes this is me. And I threw my Leica. It landed on the bass plate with hardly a scratch. Another Photographer grabbed it along with my phone and I was able to track him later. I was held face down tear gas deployed right in front of me and pepper sprayed directly into the eye.
Has any former Amazon employee ever said they miss Quip? 😂 Probably not. Til me! Absolutely cannot stand Google Docs/Sheets.
a cartoon of spongebob holding a bunch of papers and the words google drive above him
Alt: A cartoon of spongebob with a bunch of papers flying around and the words google drive above him.
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I can confirm that the iOS 26 spell check has been updated and is even worse now. I have never spelled duck wrong so many times in my life.
Them: “no one had pronouns in my day” A TV Character from their day:
Not to be THAT dictionary, but… It’s ‘per se,’ not ‘per say.’ It’s ‘dog-eat-dog world,’ not ‘doggy-dog world.’ It’s ‘hunger pangs,’ not ‘hunger pains.’ It’s ‘one and the same,’ not ‘one in the same.’ It's 'buck naked,' not 'butt naked.'
Dammit. I've gotta add to my project list to dump Ring and replace their devices with something else at our house. I don't have time for this shit. yro.slashdot.org/story/25/10/...
We have officially entered the season where I forget to put on a jacket. And now I’m going to be chilly all day.
hello people. i'm going to let a domain expire in a couple days. please clap.
The latest episode is out! Vector Databases Explained: From E-commerce Search to Molecule Research with @jennanerdsout.com adventuresindevops.com/episodes/202...
Vector Databases Explained: From E-commerce Search to Molecule Research | Adventures in DevOps
Jenna Pederson demystifies vector databases, exploring how they power semantic search, their role in RAG, and unexpected applications.
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🔑 Join Sohan Maheshwar from @authzed.com and me for a webinar as we talk about securing enterprise AI systems with relationship-based access control (ReBAC). We'll do a demo with Pinecone and SpiceDB and answer questions. 🗓 September 25 ⏰ 9 am PT / 12pm ET 🔗 pinecone-io.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
This is one of my favorite case studies with Pinecone that just came out ⤵️ www.pinecone.io/customers/de...
Fast, accurate retrieval for creators at scale: Delphi’s path toward a million conversational agents with Pinecone | Pinecone
Search through billions of items for similar matches to any object, in milliseconds. It’s the next generation of search, an API call away.
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Some claim RAG is dead, but anyone building production AI workloads is doubling down. Here's why RAG might actually matter more than ever in 2025 ⤵️
Why RAG Might Actually Matter More Than Ever In 2025 | HackerNoon
Some claim RAG is dead, but anyone building production AI workloads is doubling down. Here's why it remains essential for real-world AI deployments.
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