Alex Mac

BD Director · Oil & Gas, Mining & Steel | Self-taught AI builder | Building ScopePlex: Texas & Louisiana project intel from public filings | Houston ↔ Tianjin

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Since this morning the search also reads the EPC and general contractor. It uses the same rule as the project page, so a builder only matches when the page shows that name with a source. https://t.co/6mFGB1tx7u

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Searching "Bechtel" in ScopePlex returned one project. Bechtel is the named EPC on 10. The search read project names, owners, places, design firms and permit numbers, and never the builder.

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@rtehrani @torusrev A prefabricated data center is still a fabrication job, just done in a shop instead of on site. I'd be curious where Torus builds the modules.

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@bofrench That list will be a useful record in itself. Big sites with their own generation also leave a trail in TCEQ air permits, which is one of the places new Texas data center campuses show up early.

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@eliana_jordan Number 3 is underrated. One member test on my app found five pages counting projects five different ways, and my own clicking had never caught it.

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@itsharmanjot I keep the context in the repo instead of the chat. Every pull request on my project says what changed and why in plain words, so a fresh session reads the history instead of guessing.

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@PrateekJainDev Local testing gets me most of the way. The bugs that reach my users usually come from the data, like a search that never read the builder's name, and no emulator catches that.

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@Bic_Revelation This is the risk I watch most. Agents write most of my code, so every pull request has to say in plain words what changed, and I check it on the live site before it counts as shipped.

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@sysxplore A file like that is only as good as how specific it is. On my own project the rules that hold up are the ones written after a real mistake, like a QA check on the live site before anything counts as shipped.

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@AntonMartyniuk Code review in the same window is the piece I'd want. I read every change next to what the live page shows, so less switching between tools helps.

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@IlirAliu_ Reusing the old arm is the smart part. I build my app with Claude Code too, and the work that takes longest is checking the output against the real world, which for me means real permit filings.

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@KareemFarid A gas plant that skips the grid queue still needs an air permit. In Texas that usually means a TCEQ filing, which is where I'd look for the Starbase plant first.

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@aaliya_va Trust is the part I can't generate either. Every project record in my app cites the public filing it came from, because a reader in construction won't act on a number they can't trace.

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So every project now gets a type from its filings: new build, expansion or upgrade. A running plant that only files permit upkeep leaves the site, and one with new work, like an LNG terminal with a fresh incentive application, stays as an expansion. https://t.co/6mFGB1u4X2

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A permit filing doesn't always mean something new is being built. Running plants file renewals for years, and ScopePlex was showing some of those plants as fresh leads.

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@akshay_pachaar What bit me in production wasn't the agent's reasoning, it was the data it touched. One bad row in a batch of public filings used to sink the whole batch, until failed batches started retrying row by row.

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@TheValueist The read-through I watch is the Louisiana paper trail. Incentive applications and air permits can show up well before the equipment orders get discussed on a call.

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@suraj_sharma14 Spec writing is the one I'd move to the top. With agents writing most of my code, a vague spec gets built exactly as written, and the bugs that follow are mine.

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@china_saparbek Respect for posting the minus next to MRR too. My build log is much younger, and so far the fixes users notice most are small ones, like a project name reading like a name instead of a filing title.

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@mirdhaaakanksha Public data on a map is underrated. I do something similar with Texas and Louisiana permit filings, and the hard part isn't plotting them, it's deciding which records are the same project under different names.