Benedicte is on vacation. Benedikt shares why he seriously considered taking a long break from Userlist last year.

Mentioned on the show:

• Benedikt’s LinkedIn post about almost quitting Userlist
  
  

Benedicte ends two big chapters. Benedikt shares how they did in Q1.

Benedicte’s mother passed away after a decade-long battle with early onset Alzheimer’s. She looked back at some of the fun memories they had and shared that she’s planning a celebration of life gathering at a bar where her mom used to frequent. Benedicte also marked her last day Outseta, realizing that she won’t have enough brain space for two roles when things start ramping up at Whee. She looks forward to giving herself a slow April.

Benedikt and the Userlist team reviewed their Q1 and while they got a lot done, they got a bit derailed from their original plans. He also took a week off from work but a database issue made it challenging to settle into vacation mode.

Benedicte is happy despite everything. Benedikt tests their new serializer implementation.

Even when life hasn’t been cooperating lately, Benedicte realized that she’s still grateful for a lot of things. At Whee, bike financing came through, they landed a 3-year grant for an IoT project, and AI will enable the team to tackle things they’ve been putting off.

Benedikt spent a good chunk of the week deep in a new serializer implementation for Userlist. The full test suite was green for a while but it broke again in an effort to improve things overall. He also recorded two videos on array filtering and got more intentional with his social media posting.

Mentioned on the show:

• Customer Bastien: your MCP server has a permission problem
• Postpone
• From Domain Authority to Entity Authority: 2026 Google Discover Update

Benedicte gives an energizing talk at the Oslo Claude Code Meetup. Benedikt uses AI to optimize their website.

Despite getting a bit chaotic, Benedicte gave an energizing talk about Jean-Claw at the recent Oslo Claude Code Meetup last week. At Outseta, the team decided to lean into enabling AI operations.

Benedikt optimized their website with the help of AI: adding more structured data, creating dedicated author pages, adding an “updated” date field, and more. And while he’s certain that a perfect Ahrefs health score is just a vanity metric, he’s taking that small win.

Benedicte and Benedikt also talk about how AI speeds up experimentation, why they think good taste and experience matters these days, and more.

Mentioned on the show:

• Is it Queen or AI?
• More and more social posts are drafted while interacting with AI agents

The OpenClaw bot asks Benedicte some “existential” questions. Benedikt ships their MCP.

Benedicte is working on Jean-Claw for her upcoming talk when things get a bit existential. In the middle of setting up the YAML file, the bot halts on the “Who are you? Who am I?” step. She also used Claude to create a Queen Raae voice skill to help her write more like she actually talks.

Benedikt shipped their MCP experiment, letting users generate broadcasts, use Liquid tags inside broadcasts, and somewhat create segments. And with Heroku’s recent announcement, he’s looking into alternatives once more.

Benedicte works on Jean-Claw. Benedikt is doing an MCP experiment.

Benedicte is deep in an AI rabbit hole these days: reading, building, and testing with AI as much as she can. She almost bought a Mac Mini to test out her Claude Bot but instead pitched the idea for a talk happening on Feb 25th.

Benedikt is doing an MCP experiment for Userlist. In the process, he realized that they might need a new way to manage their schema. The team has also shipped their webhook node behind a feature flag while they figure out the SSRF stuff.

Benedikt and Benedicte talk about feeling more productive with AI and why we should use it mindfully.

With their year and quarter planning done, Benedikt shares some of their plans and targets for Userlist this 2026. He also shares how he used Claude Code to take care of “annoying projects” on their codebase, find crosslinking opportunities, and more.

Benedicte and Ola vibe coded, refined, and deployed the first version of the theft flow for Whee! which will be user tested soon. She also played around with AI for some docs work at Outseta and was amazed when it built a demo Next app in one shot.

Benedicte and Benedikt tell us what they’ve been up to during the holidays and the first work week of 2026.