One thing I keep relearning as a founder is that communicating a complex product can feel almost as hard as building it. We have been using AI not just to write code, but to pressure test how we explain CodeYam. Our product designer Dani wrote more about this. Link in the comments.

I often hear some version of: “Why can’t AI just do X?” Where X is a software development task like fixing a bug, writing a test, or making a clean code change. Usually the answer is simple: the task is more complex than it looks, for both the human responsible and the AI doing the work.

"APPROVED - Ship It!" 🚀 Set myself a challenge: rebuild the @codeyam.bsky.social website from Figma designs using AI coding agents. Claude Code CLI acted as: → Programming pair → PR reviewer → Pseudo-CTO

AI workflows aren’t just for prototypes. I rebuilt parts of the @codeyam.bsky.social website using an agentic coding workflow...and it is almost production-ready. Curious: would you trust AI-generated code in your own projects if humans reviewed it first? Full thoughts below👇

We ran an experiment: can AI tools build real, functional software from a natural language prompt? The result: a deep dive across 7 “vibe coding” tools, from v0 to Lovable to Figma Make. All built something, but not always what we expected. 👉 Full write-up here → blog.codeyam.com/p/creating-s...

Been diving into how AI is reshaping software development. Not just faster code, but better feedback loops, more intuitive tooling, and sometimes strange bugs. Wrote a piece on what I’ve been learning through CS50, vibe coding tools, and building in the in-between. open.substack.com/pub/nseldeib...

Just published a practical guide to recruiting quality user research participants when you're bootstrapping the process 🔍 At CodeYam, we've learned that talking to the wrong people = useless data, no matter how good your questions are. Read on: nseldeib.substack.com/p/finding-re...

If you're a founder friend, you know that for years I've been obsessed with leveraging qualitative user research to create faster feedback loops to improve learning velocity and iteration, especially in the earliest stages. 👇 Introducing a new series on this: nseldeib.substack.com/p/build-fast...

Listening to Tubes: A Journey to the Center of the Internet by Andrew Blum and am struck by how much of the internet's history (and present!) is in suburban Virginia, where I grew up. As a kid, I had no idea. Is this taught now? I would've loved to learn about the internet's creation and evolution.

Hey #startup folks — I’m Nadia, CEO & co-founder of CodeYam. We’re building something new for developers and running 1:1 usability interviews on April 23 & 25 (and beyond). Sign up: forms.gle/rjUe3YzKxjkf...

Will folks be at the @dora.dev meetup at Google Cloud Next today? Hoping to join and meet some familiar-from-Meets faces!

As a founder wrestling with the speed v. quality tradeoff, I'm fascinated by AI tools promising both. Our product designer tested four AI-native tools to redesign our @codeyam.bsky.social site. The result: impressive speed, but real limitations. Read her findings: blog.codeyam.com/p/testing-th...

No matter how good AI becomes, one fundamental challenge persists: communication. Despite significant AI progress, effectively communicating with LLMs remains a significant and under-appreciated problem that will hold back AI's value. blog.codeyam.com/p/ai-cant-re...

This is crazy, egregious, beyond the pale. Musk has legitimate influence and power and is pushing to jail a political opponent. A prominent senator. This is as anti-democratic as it gets.

Spent two days with the Boldstart community in Miami talking AI-native software development. We're not just changing what we build, but HOW we build. Everyone's using AI tools, DX is evolving rapidly, and we're seeing early signs of a B2A (business-to-agent) future emerging.

Did I always know I wanted to become a founder? I get asked this question all the time. Today, I shared the journey that led me from to the @southparkcommons.bsky.social Founder Fellowship and creating CodeYam with my co-founder Jared. Read it here: nseldeib.substack.com/p/founder-fa...

Morning thoughts on successful founder-market fit and the roles played by effort, ability, and luck. These are distinct yet interconnected factors that you can influence but cannot perfectly control as a founder.

Isolation and abstraction are two useful techniques that humans use to navigate complexity and large amounts of inputs. Historically, we've applied these concepts to great effect when developing software. But what about when developing software with AI?

New product feature shipped! Our goal with CodeYam is to make it easier to understand, test, and deliver valuable software changes. To do that, you have to tame software’s complexity. This demo shows how we try to do that for CodeYam itself.

A couple of months ago, I attended a @github.com Women in Tech dinner. Each attendee left with an action item. Mine was to be more transparent about how I became a founder and what I've learned (and unlearned!) along my non-linear journey. Read more: nseldeib.substack.com/p/founder-fa...

Yesterday, I got a text from a founder friend just reminding me that they believe in and support me. This got me thinking: I sometimes forget to express appreciation and celebrate what I love about the people around me enough.

Earlier I was looking for great product-oriented demos of software products. Found a 16 year old "DropBox" demo @dropboxofficial.bsky.social that certainly fit the criteria. Not sure if it was successful or not at the time, but it's incredibly product-centric. www.youtube.com/watch?v=7QmC...

As an experiment and in that spirit of shipping something imperfect-yet-useful over something perfect, I published a blog post today: nseldeib.substack.com/p/taming-sof...

Feels appropriate to go literal for the first post here. Hello 🦋!