Craig Traynor

Cofounder at Pleras

[Craig Traynor @CraigTraynor1]

@bcherny this needs to be fixed. It makes Claude almost unusable for complex tasks.

I've never seen it in Claude Code before so not sure if this is actually the issue here, but the Claude desktop app does it constantly.

[Craig Traynor @CraigTraynor1]

@GergelyOrosz You’re missing the point, this is what AI is going to do. It will kill SaaS purchases from a lot of the low needs purchasers. Because they can vibe their own solution.

For medium/high it will let them tailor specific to their needs and ignore the functionality they dont need

[Craig Traynor @CraigTraynor1]

@kevinbridges86 seen you at the phoenix tonight, was 10/10!

[Craig Traynor @CraigTraynor1]

And I’m done with Twitter. If you want a chat then contact me on another platform.

[Billy Oppenheimer @bpoppenheimer]

Jony Ive, the legendary Apple designer, on what it takes to focus: sacrifice…

[Zach Tratar @zachtratar]

Most software engineers have never experienced what I’ll call “full startup speed”.

Yes, it’s possible to fix 15 app bugs, fully dockerize apps, productionize dbs, get deploy scripts running (even kubernetes), add CI, SSL, and send first invites in… under 2 days.

[Chris Ford @ctford]

ChatGPT has been out less than two weeks and it has more apparent use cases than the entirety of blockchain.

[Craig Traynor @CraigTraynor1]

This is 100% not every educator and many want to support critical thinking and move the subject forward

But the changes to create larger classes and more standardisation had negatively impacted education

[Craig Traynor @CraigTraynor1]

There have been challenges to testing for a long time and evidence of testing negatively impacting students, testing ability to conform rather than understand individual ability

This comes with massive challenges but is the perfect opportunity to take a positive future direction

[Craig Traynor @CraigTraynor1]

My reaction to crowds feels strange to me

I’ve been pro-musk for a long time.

I’ve got a less positive view of him with everything that’s been happening recently, but the strange thing is that this is amplified so much because of my negative feelings to his wilfully blind fans

[Craig Traynor @CraigTraynor1]

I wonder if the crazy Musk fanatics will realise this applies to them

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Fanaticism is always a function of repressed doubt – Dune

[Craig Traynor @CraigTraynor1]

@bcantrill looks like I was wrong…

About pretty much all of this to be honest

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

The people have spoken.

Trump will be reinstated.

Vox Populi, Vox Dei.

[Craig Traynor @CraigTraynor1]

@allenholub Is it just task estimation you don’t see the point of, or estimation in general?

[Craig Traynor @CraigTraynor1]

At this point the most terrifying thing about Twitter is the precedents that are set if this somehow works

It could undo decades of positive change in how to manage/lead

[Craig Traynor @CraigTraynor1]

This is horrifying, and people are saying it’s an amazing launch strategy…

Accounts run by adults follow children on social media, parking outside schools, and now accessing location data

Doing this at scale doesn’t make it less creepy, it makes it more creepy

[Luke Sophinos @lukesophinos]

They targeted teenagers by creating Instagram accounts with the high school name included, such as "gas.georgiahigh".

They made the account private, & then followed every student from these high schools.

[Craig Traynor @CraigTraynor1]

@theleanicole Ideally continuous planning rather than quarterly or annual, but it takes a long time to shift a company there.

Before then usually 4-6 weeks out.

Often it’s not new things it’s putting all the existing information together to get buyin

Occasionally a spanner is thrown in

[Craig Traynor @CraigTraynor1]

Everything happening in the world and on Twitter recently is definitely making me feel more inclined to argue with the nonsense I see

[Craig Traynor @CraigTraynor1]

The older I get the less appealing I find the hustle culture of growth at all costs with VC money as rocket fuel.

On the flip side the more appreciative I am of companies and investors that value doing good for the world and building sustainable companies with great engineering.

[Craig Traynor @CraigTraynor1]

It has been 10 months and I still think the iPhone keyboard is awful.

I expected some pain changing from Android for the first time and thought I’d adapt after a while.

But no, it’s just genuinely garbage.

[Craig Traynor @CraigTraynor1]

@bcantrill @nickgeracehacks There are great companies producing great engineers. But it’s easy to react to pressure when you don’t have experience (startups with young leadership)

Are changes in our industry leading to less time spent learning and weaker engineering across the industry?

[Craig Traynor @CraigTraynor1]

@bcantrill @nickgeracehacks It also makes me think about the changes in our society of perception of success with social media, status symbols, wanting things more quickly.

Pairing that with the unbalanced salaries in tech, how is that negatively impacting the years we should spend learning and innovating