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[Rob @ArcheoAstro]

@DeryaTR_ @NotebookLM Absolute garbage animations

[Todd Saunders @toddsaunders]

I know Silicon Valley startups don't want to hear this.....

But the combination of someone in the trades with deep domain expertise and Claude Code will run circles around your generic software.

I talked to Cory LaChance this morning, a mechanical engineer in industrial piping construction in Houston. He normally works with chemical plants and refineries, but now he also works with the terminal

He reached out in a DM a few days ago and I was so fired up by his story, I asked him if we could record the conversation and share it.

He built a full application that industrial contractors are using every day. It reads piping isometric drawings and automatically extracts every weld count, every material spec, every commodity code.

Work that took 10 minutes per drawing now takes 60 seconds. It can do 100 drawings in five minutes, saving days of time.

His co-workers are all mind blown, and when he talks to them, it's like they are speaking different languages.

His fabrication shop uses it daily, and he built the entire thing in 8 weeks. During those 8 weeks he also had to learn everything about Claude Code, the terminal, VS Code, everything.

My favorite quote from him was when he said, "I literally did this with zero outside help other than the AI. My favorite tools are screenshots, step by step instructions and asking Claude to explain things like I'm five."

Every trades worker with deep expertise and a willingness to sit down with Claude Code for a few weekends is now a potential software founder.

I can't wait to meet more people like Cory.

[Tom Warren @tomwarren]

Microsoft really needs to get a grip on spammers using Azure. It’s far too easy for spammers to sign you up to Azure lists without consent and get into your inbox because the messages come from an Azure alias. This has been going on for months 🙄

[Aaron Rupar @atrupar]

Powell: "The thing a good number of people on the committee are concerned about is the very very low level of job creation. If you adjust what has been the trend job creation over the past 6 months for what we think is the overstatement due to overcounting, effectively there is 0 net job creation in the private sector"

[Lukasz Olejnik @lukOlejnik]

Walmart has filed a patent for systems that use AI to predict demand and automatically adjust prices. It is installing electronic shelf labels across all US stores. Labels can be remotely updated automatically. The patent that "helps merchants make decisions" is a machine that makes the decision and hands a merchant the paperwork?

[Rob @ArcheoAstro]

@Uttam1vish @sweatystartup Financial autistics like this are all the same, they think a business is just a numbers game. No big deal... the collateral damage of their motivated hubris is only making capitalism unworkable, leading to the downfall of society

[Doug Lewin @douglewinenergy]

Record setting day in Texas on the ERCOT grid:
🥇 all-time for solar at 31,300 megawatts (~10 GW more than CA's record)
🥇 all-time with renewables providing 83% of the power
🥈all-time for battery storage at 8,600 megawatts
🥉all-time for battery storage as % of load at 16%

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

Marion Stokes was afraid people would rewrite history, so she recorded over 800,000 hours of TV over 35 years.

[Rob @ArcheoAstro]

@RossDellenger Auburn's got some organizational and game plan issues but the refs cost them this game.

Objectively, two blown calls and one no-call cost Auburn this game.

[Phys.org @physorg_com]

#Soil microbes may influence hormones linked to emotions, social bonds, and #MentalHealth by interacting with the gut-brain axis, highlighting soil’s potential role in human well-being. @flinders @msystemsj https://t.co/NmX2Cnolwu https://t.co/JYWRW1YHIZ

[Rob @ArcheoAstro]

The same traits that make you brilliant also make you delusional

[Keith Sakata, MD @KeithSakata]

[9/12] The uncomfortable truth is we’re all vulnerable.

The same traits that make you brilliant:

• pattern recognition
• abstract thinking
• intuition

They live right next to an evolutionary cliff edge. Most benefit from these traits. But a few get pushed over.

[Rob @ArcheoAstro]

@yashar The way he paused with a raised eyebrow, blinks a few times, looks sideways before he looks into the camera and says "She just might be a victim, she just might be"

Can't decide if in his head it's 'my soul just died' or 'let the grift begin!' probably both

[Rob @ArcheoAstro]

@the24sight Tom you really need to cover the story of Luis Leon, 82, Chilean national who fled to the US in 1987 fleeing torture in Chile from Pinochet. Recently lost his green card and went to an immigration office to replace it, swept up by ICE and ended up in a Guatemalan hospital. Insane

[Rob @ArcheoAstro]

@OpenAI @sama @AndrewMayne Nice, simple and smooth presentation for your first podcast!

There is a lot hype before knowing enough of the nature of ANNs yet it's a paradigm shift in computing and deserves a weekly? monthly? podcast. I hope to hear from some more OpenAI employees on this podcast

[Orin Kerr @OrinKerr]

The Acting US Attorney of the SDNY resigned today, and she sent this letter yesterday to the Attorney General explaining why she refused to drop the charges against NYC's mayor. Read the whole thing, but the last two pages are in the screenshots. https://t.co/cecHwnYfX5

[Rob @ArcheoAstro]

@RobertJMolnar Absolute garbage campaign. Parading around Liz Cheney looking for imaginary undecided moderate R votes, pissing everyone off. In the mean time not pushing hard the single greatest political advantage the Democrats have EVER had in abortion. Idiotic

[Rob @ArcheoAstro]

@audipenny I can't handle it she's staring through my soul

[Rob @ArcheoAstro]

@audipenny This dog OMG

[Rob @ArcheoAstro]

@audipenny Oh my God, this dog

[Rob @ArcheoAstro]

@bcmerchant This was a bad bill that was written by the private equity and VCs that own the big media companies. It would have given them the vast majority of the $ and pulled up the ladder

Hopefully there will be something in the future that will actually help independent journalism