Intelligent Routing

Help fleet managers to optimise routes, manage deliveries and track vehicles.

[Intelligent Routing @IntelligntRoute]

I’m opening up and sharing what it’s really like to build Intelligent Routing. Learning in public, honest notes from the journey.

Intelligent Routing helps dispatch managers plan delivery routes that slash costs 💰 and keep customers happy 🚚✨

Come along for the ride 👇

[@levelsio @levelsio]

✨ I just replaced Mapbox on all my sites with OpenFreeMap by @hyperknot and my map bill is now $0

Mapbox's pricing is getting increasingly extortionary (which is fine, it's capitalism) but at some point you have to think, $857/month for what? A map? Really? A map is that expensive? How can loading a map be that expensive? It's just some PNG tiles you host somewhere? Why?

@OpenFreeMapOrg is 100% free and all you do is point your AI to openfreemap(dot)org and tell it to replace Mapbox with that

5 minutes and you save thousands $$$ per year!

Apparently @Cloudflare sponsors its bandwidth which is very cool and keeps it online!

[Intelligent Routing @IntelligntRoute]

> The regional logistics company with 40 trucks? They want the routes optimized, not Joe spouting off about this new system he’s been messing around with.

[Jason Fried @jasonfried]

A bespoke software revolution? I don't buy it.

It'll exist. It already exists. Small consultants and big consulting firms have made custom software for years. It almost always sucks. It’s bloated, confusing, and because the client pays, it’s built wrong in all the ways.

Who’s excited about bespoke software? Software makers! Of course they're excited about building bespoke software — that's what they do. X is full of them. Your feed is full of people who love making software talking about making software. Of course they’re excited about the revolution. Echo, echo, echo...

Most people don’t like computers. Nobody in tech wants to say that out loud. People tolerate computers. They use them because they have to. Given the choice, most would rather not think about them at all.

So when someone suggests that AI means everyone will build their own custom tools, ask who "everyone" is. The three-person accounting firm drowning in client paperwork? They want the paperwork gone, not a new system to maintain. The regional logistics company with 40 trucks? They want the routes optimized, not Joe spouting off about this new system he’s been messing around with. The law firm billing 70-hour weeks? They want leverage on their time, not a software project to design.

They don’t hate technology. But building and maintaining their own critical systems isn’t their wheelhouse, regardless of how much faster and easier it’s become. It's another job on top of the job.

Will these people use AI? Absolutely, for all sorts of things. Will some outliers go deep and build real custom systems? Sure, but they're almost always people who already had some pull toward software. The curiosity was already there. They were dabblers before.

Giving everyone access to software building tools doesn't mean everyone becomes a builder. A powerful excavator doesn't turn a homeowner into a contractor. Most people just want the hole dug by someone else. They don’t want the responsibility either.

[Reads with Ravi @readswithravi]

Action produces information.

[Freeman Jiang @freemanjiangg]

ok the ban didn't work, but on the bright side i now have peak rush hour running at 100 fps on my macbook.

(that's the reason previous videos have all started at 3am)

[Brian Armstrong @brian_armstrong]

One of my favorite lessons I’ve learnt from working with smart people:

Action produces information. If you’re unsure of what to do, just do anything, even if it’s the wrong thing. This will give you information about what you should actually be doing.

Sounds simple on the surface - the hard part is making it part of your every day working process.

[Intelligent Routing @IntelligntRoute]

Spelling so bad not even the spam filter recognizes it 🤣

[DBeaver @dbeaver_news]

You can select multiple areas on your map in seconds with the lasso tool.

This feature is available for Spatial data in all DBeaver editions, including Community. You can use it with PostgreSQL, MySQL, and many other databases:
https://t.co/Uujnb3FNrT

[Intelligent Routing @IntelligntRoute]

What can we do in South Africa to be more like the US? 🤔

[Patrick Collison @patrickc]

An interesting trend we're noticing at Stripe: US startups are pulling ahead of their peers elsewhere.

These charts show averaged revenue growth for software startups in each location. US startups typically grow somewhat faster than those elsewhere. However, since mid-2023, US companies have accelerated a lot. Interestingly, this is not just because of AI startups: if we strip those out, there's still a big divergence. Our leading hypothesis is that US startups (even those that aren't AI companies as such) are adopting new technologies (AI, stablecoins, etc.) faster than companies elsewhere. (This pattern of faster adoption among US companies was also seen with the internet itself.)

Whatever the cause, the pattern is striking.

[Methodological note: this pattern appears to hold beyond Europe as well.]

[Mitchell Hashimoto @mitchellh]

Writing high quality initial code and prompting an agent to metaphorically "complete the owl" is some of the highest value you can get out of an agent. For example, the given thread took the agent less than 10 seconds. It would've taken me minutes. https://t.co/a0cm8JD72b

[Andrej Karpathy @karpathy]

Agency > Intelligence

I had this intuitively wrong for decades, I think due to a pervasive cultural veneration of intelligence, various entertainment/media, obsession with IQ etc. Agency is significantly more powerful and significantly more scarce. Are you hiring for agency? Are we educating for agency? Are you acting as if you had 10X agency?

Grok explanation is ~close:

“Agency, as a personality trait, refers to an individual's capacity to take initiative, make decisions, and exert control over their actions and environment. It’s about being proactive rather than reactive—someone with high agency doesn’t just let life happen to them; they shape it. Think of it as a blend of self-efficacy, determination, and a sense of ownership over one’s path.

People with strong agency tend to set goals and pursue them with confidence, even in the face of obstacles. They’re the type to say, “I’ll figure it out,” and then actually do it. On the flip side, someone low in agency might feel more like a passenger in their own life, waiting for external forces—like luck, other people, or circumstances—to dictate what happens next.

It’s not quite the same as assertiveness or ambition, though it can overlap. Agency is quieter, more internal—it’s the belief that you *can* act, paired with the will to follow through. Psychologists often tie it to concepts like locus of control: high-agency folks lean toward an internal locus, feeling they steer their fate, while low-agency folks might lean external, seeing life as something that happens *to* them.”

[Intelligent Routing @IntelligntRoute]

Learn to sell, keep building.

I've read this thread a few times over the years. Today this one caught my eye.

[Naval @naval]

Learn to sell. Learn to build. If you can do both, you will be unstoppable.

[Adam @adamdotdev]

Good reminder on the state of AI

[Sahil Bloom @SahilBloom]

Everyone needs to hear this…

[Intelligent Routing @IntelligntRoute]

@MUI_hq @layer @ReactRouter Explaination why the layer confuses me 🤔

[Intelligent Routing @IntelligntRoute]

Excited to play with new RSC frameworks 😄
But I need our web app on React 19 🙂
Which needs a recent version of @MUI_hq 😐
Which means migrating some really old MUI screens 😩
Which breaks my UI 😭
Now I sit with a CSS specificity problem 🤬

[Intelligent Routing @IntelligntRoute]

Anyone with @MUI_hq experience know if the CSS `@layer` is expected?

I'm using the official MUI @ReactRouter v7 example without modifications (even though it says Next.js):
https://t.co/MuMVOivAKE

[Intelligent Routing @IntelligntRoute]

Quick PR to remove the Next.js from the React Router example:
https://t.co/npqbVtTZ9b