Dale Spoonemore
Creator of Seed to Spoon Gardening App
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Dale Spoonemore is the creator of the Seed to Spoon gardening app (1M+ downloads), now the Director of Marketing Technology for JPPA (Park Seed, Jackson & Perkins, Northern Brewer, Van Dykes Restoration & others). He’s a developer, speaker, and advocate for using tech and mental health tools to make life better for everyone—from gardeners to coders.
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Where the AI Agents Lied to Me
AI agents can make software delivery faster, but they can also create a dangerous kind of confidence. They produce plausible summaries, plausible test results, plausible implementation notes, and sometimes plausible nonsense.
This talk is a practical experience report from using AI-assisted development workflows across a 10-company ecommerce and retail portfolio supported by only three developers. I will show how we use implementation agents, QA agents, documentation agents, review loops, and Kanban-driven orchestration to increase throughput, and where those systems broke down.
The focus is quality: what AI is genuinely good at in delivery pipelines, where it hides risk, how false confidence shows up, and how we are redefining "done" in an AI-first workflow. I will share concrete guardrails: independent QA agents, structured acceptance checks, human review points, mobile approvals, and the places where we refuse to let automation make the final call.
Attendees will leave with a grounded view of AI-assisted quality work: not anti-AI, not AI magic, but practices for using agents without outsourcing accountability.
From Backyard to App Store: Lessons from Building and Selling a Gardening Startup
In this follow-up to my previous ThunderPlains talks, I’ll dive deeper into the real story behind Seed to Spoon: how I turned a gardening obsession into one of the most-downloaded gardening apps on the App Store. I’ll cover the gritty realities of bootstrapping, finding product-market fit, growing a loyal user base, and ultimately, what it was like to sell our startup. This talk shares practical lessons, tough mistakes, and inspiring moments from our journey.
Dale Spoonemore
Creator of Seed to Spoon Gardening App
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