Brad Germain

Software Engineer, Catholic, Father, Husband | Owner of @jmj_dev | Developed @catholic_sword app | #dotnet, #csharp, #xamarin

[Brad Germain @bradgermain]

Moments are what we live for. The birth of a child, graduation, weddings, anniversaries, just spending a few moments to watch your kids play. Cherish every moment, because unfortunately, the common characteristic of every moment is that it passes.

[piercheney @LVpolitic]

It’s obviously easy to laugh and make fun of this- but it’s honestly really sad.
Instead of treating/managing mental illness, too many have glorified it, promoted it, and tried to normalize it. This is the end result - a sick person humiliating themselves

[Brad Germain @bradgermain]

On a farm, if this kills flies as well it would be a godsend.

[Ole Lehmann @itsolelehmann]

i can't tell if i should love or be terrified of this startup lol

> their end goal is the complete eradication of mosquitoes

> they're building a $50/month pet drone that guards your home 24/7 so you never deal with a mosquito again

> it listens for mosquito wingbeats, locks on, then shreds them mid-air with its propellers

> every insect's wingbeat sounds slightly different, so it can tell a mosquito apart from a fly or a wasp

> by their math, 10 drones keep a full square kilometer mosquito-free

> the video below is their first ever air-to-air kill

[Brad Germain @bradgermain]

😳

[Polymarket @Polymarket]

NEW: Infectious disease doctor advises avoiding fresh produce — even if washed — as the explosive diarrhea outbreak spreads rapidly throughout the U.S.

[Brad Germain @bradgermain]

Makes sense to me

[yannispappas @yannispappas]

I believe the Shroud of Turin was forged by a medieval artist. I believe he chose a very expensive linen cloth to wow only the very few who would notice, matched the Gospel accounts in extraordinary detail, rejected the artistic conventions of his own time in many ways for the only known time in history, depicted crucifixion with striking anatomical realism, used real blood or blood-derived material instead of simply painting the wounds, created an unremarkable faint image whose most remarkable property would not be recognized until photography revealed it as a negative more than five centuries later, embedded three-dimensional image information that would only be discovered with modern image analysis, produced an image so superficial that modern microscopy still can’t explain it, anticipated details that align perfeclty with modern forensic understanding of crucifixion, executed the entire work without mistakes or corrections on a valuable cloth, he nailed it without error in one shot, invented a technique that no one has convincingly reproduced, left no record of how he did it, inspired no known followers, and did it to wow only us centuries later as nobody viewing the work at the time would even see it for what it is, and then disappeared from history without anyone ever mentioning the greatest technical achievement of medieval art.

[Brad Germain @bradgermain]

What a beautiful and real answer. Till death do us part @Tiff_Germain

So lucky to be 18 years married to you.

[Joshua Charles🇻🇦 @JoshuaTCharles]

I found this bit today between @RealMattFradd and Peter Kreeft profoundly moving (Kreeft’s wife of 60+ years recently died).

It’s no wonder marriage is a type of Christ and His Church. If we love His Catholic Church only if Her body is beautiful, we are not truly loving Her.

[Brad Germain @bradgermain]

@elonmusk same here…

[Ben Shapiro @benshapiro]

Hey, @elonmusk, we have a Tesla Model X but we can’t really fit both parents and five kids, and the new SUV only has six seats. On behalf of those who are doing our best to repopulate the West, any chance Tesla can make a minivan or SUV with 7 or 8 seats?

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Good review of Grok 4.5

[Brad Germain @bradgermain]

Nice!

[Merriam-Webster @MerriamWebster]

Why is it ‘cancelled’ in the U.K. but ‘canceled’ in the U.S.?

Because we gave them that L in 1776.

[Brad Germain @bradgermain]

@jahirsheikh8 @grok which is better and why?

[Brad Germain @bradgermain]

@TonyLaneNV @Scott_4Trump She did good. I’ve also heard taking a dog with you is actually far more dangerous and many have been killed because of it. You can see how that could play out here. The whole time the grizzly isn’t interested in her it’s interested in her dog.

[Brad Germain @bradgermain]

Happy Father’s Day! In light of our everyday…

https://t.co/SL0jmJnZmP

[Brad Germain @bradgermain]

Solid points and business plan. Glad the solid devs will get rewarded for their efforts. I’m not a fan, however, of these continued layoffs across companies. I don’t know what the answer is, but this can’t end well if it continues.

[Zeb Evans @DJ_CURFEW]

Today we reduced headcount by 22%. The business is the strongest it's ever been. So I think it's important to be direct about what I'm seeing and why.

First, I made this decision and I own it. I did it because the way to operate at the highest level of productivity is changing, and to win the future, ClickUp needs to change with it.

Second, this wasn't about cutting costs. Most savings from this change will flow directly back into the people who stay. We'll be introducing million-dollar salary bands. If you create outsized impact using AI, you'll be paid outside of traditional bands.

Most importantly, I have the deepest gratitude for those affected. We're doing this from a position of strength specifically so we can take care of people properly. Everyone affected receives a package aimed at honoring their contributions and easing the transition.

I only see two options: wait for this to play out gradually in the market or be honest about what I'm seeing and act proactively.

THE 100X ORGANIZATION
The primary change is that we're restructuring around what I call 100x org. The goal is 100x output. The roles required to build at the highest level are fundamentally different than they were a year ago.

Incremental improvements to existing systems won't get us there. We need new ones. That means creating enough disruption to rebuild rather than iterate on what's already broken.

The common narrative is that AI makes everyone more productive. It doesn't. Many of the workflows of today, if left unchanged, create bottlenecks in AI systems.

These roles will evolve. But waiting for that to happen naturally means falling behind now.

The 100x org is actually heavily dependent on people - infinitely more than today. This is only possible with 10x people that have embraced and adopted new ways of working.

THE BUILDERS, AGENT MANAGERS, AND FRONT-LINERS

— THE BUILDERS: 10X ENGINEERS
I don't think most companies have internalized what's actually happening with AI in engineering. The common narrative is that AI makes all engineers more productive. That may be true in isolation, but at an organization level - that is the farthest thing from reality.

Here's what we've validated recently at ClickUp: the great engineers, the ones who can orchestrate, architect, and review, are becoming 100x engineers. They're not writing code. They're directing agents that write code. The skill is judgment.

AI makes the best engineers wildly more productive, and everyone else using AI slows these engineers down.
Think about it - the bottlenecks are (1) orchestration - telling AI what to do, and (2) reviewing - what AI did. Everything is leapfrogged and no longer needed.
So who do you want orchestrating and reviewing code?

And how do you want your best engineers to spend their time?

If your best engineers are spending time reviewing other people's code, then this is inherently an inefficient bottleneck. These engineers can review their agent's code much faster than reviewing human code.

The new world is about enabling your 10x engineers to become 100x.

The wrong strategy is to push every engineer to use infinite tokens. Companies doing this are celebrating 500% more pull requests. But customer outcomes don't match the volume of code being generated.

I call this the great reckoning of AI coding, and every company will face this soon if not already.

More code is just another bottleneck to the best engineers, and ultimately to your company's impact as well.

— THE BUILDERS: 10X PRODUCT MANAGERS
Product management and design roles are merging.

Designers that have customer focus, become more like product managers.

And product managers that have intuition for UX become more like designers.

The bottleneck of user research is gone. It takes us just one mention of an agent to kickoff research and analyze results.

The bottleneck of product <> design iteration is also gone. The product builder iterates on their own, along with agents and skills that ensure alignment with quality and strategy.

Also controversial today - I believe that the wrong strategy is to have your PMs shipping code - that just introduces another bottleneck that the best engineers will waste their time on.

To be clear, PMs should be coding but they should do this in a playground to iterate, validate, and scope. That code should not go to production.

Everything outside of managing systems, orchestrating AI, and reviewing output becomes a bottleneck.
That's why the other roles that are critical along with these are the systems managers (to reduce bottlenecks) along with a bottleneck you can't replace - customer meeting time.

— THE SYSTEM MANAGERS
Ironically, the people that automate their jobs with AI will always have a job. They become owners of the AI systems - agent managers. We have many examples of these people at ClickUp.

The underlying systems in which we operate are absolutely critical to get right. I think most companies are delusional to think they can iterate on existing systems and compete in this new world.

You must create enough disruption so that old systems are deprecated entirely. If there's any definition for 'AI native' that's what it is.

— THE FRONT-LINERS
In a world that will become saturated with AI communication, the human touch will matter more than anything to customers.

This is a bottleneck that you shouldn't replace - even when agents are high enough quality to do video meetings.

One-on-one meeting time with customers is something that shouldn't be automated. The systems around the meetings should be - so that front-liners spend nearly 100% of their time with customers.

REWARDING 100X IMPACT
In a world where companies are able to do so much more with less, where does that excess money go?
In our case, much of the savings in this new operating model will flow directly back to those that enabled it.

We must reward people that create productivity accordingly. This aligns incentives on both sides. Plus, in a world where your best people create 100x impact, you can't afford to lose them.

You should aim to retain these employees for decades. The context they have and their ability to efficiently orchestrate and review will be nearly impossible to replace.

Compensation bands of today should be thrown out the door. We're introducing $1 million cash/year salary bands with a path available to nearly everyone in the company if they produce 100x impact by creating or managing AI systems.

THE FUTURE
Nearly every company will make changes like these. The ones that do it proactively will define what comes next.

The future is not fewer people. It's different work, new roles, and better rewards for those who embrace it. We're already seeing entirely new roles emerge, like Agent Managers, that didn't exist a year ago.

ClickUp is positioning to lead this shift, not just internally, but for our customers too. I've never been more certain about where we're headed.

[Anatoli Kopadze @AnatoliKopadze]

instead of watching 2 hours of Netflix tonight, watch this Stanford lecture

it's the clearest explanation I've seen of how ChatGPT and Claude actually work

useful whether you've never touched AI in your life or have been using it every day for the past year

I took the key ideas and turned them into a practical guide on how to actually get 100% out of Claude

find it below

[Matt Fradd @RealMattFradd]

Do You Trust God's Writing Of Your Story?

[Brad Germain @bradgermain]

Odd call 🧐

[Brad Germain @bradgermain]

Have you tried creating a @Google account recently? Man alive the experience is horrible. Just constant cycling and loading screens, send SMS text just for it to do nothing. Awful. Long story short, I wasn't able to create one.

[Puneet Patwari @system_monarch]

As a Principal Backend Engineer with over 12 years of experience, I can tell you quite certainly that if you're still getting rejections in system design interviews after good efforts, I think your fundamentals are not strong...

Dedicate 2-3 months to mastering these design fundamentals, then practice designing a few systems(and do plenty of mock interviews).

Scaling & Architecture
↬ CDN
↬ Caching
↬ Sharding
↬ Queueing
↬ Replication
↬ Partitioning
↬ API Gateway
↬ Rate Limiting
↬ CAP Theorem
↬ Microservices
↬ Load Balancing
↬ Fault Tolerance
↬ Database Scaling
↬ Service Discovery
↬ Consistency Models
↬ Eventual Consistency
↬ Distributed Transactions
↬ Monolith vs Microservices
↬ Leader Election

Databases & Storage
↬ Leader-Follower Replication
↬ WAL (Write Ahead Log)
↬ Asynchronous Processing
↬ Transaction Isolation
↬ Read/Write Patterns
↬ Consistent Hashing
↬ Redis/Memcached
↬ Backup & Restore
↬ Hot/Cold Storage
↬ Data Partitioning
↬ Object Storage
↬ SQL vs NoSQL
↬ Data Retention
↬ Data Modeling
↬ OLAP vs OLTP
↬ ACID & BASE
↬ Bloom Filters
↬ File Systems
↬ S3 Basics
↬ B+ Trees
↬ Indexing

Communication & APIs
↬ JWT
↬ CORS
↬ OAuth
↬ Throttling
↬ Serialization
↬ API Security
↬ Long Polling
↬ WebSockets
↬ API Gateway
↬ Idempotency
↬ Service Mesh
↬ Retry Patterns
↬ REST vs gRPC
↬ API Versioning
↬ Circuit Breaker
↬ API Rate Limits
↬ Fan-out/Fan-in
↬ Protocol Buffers
↬ Message Queues
↬ Dead Letter Queue

Reliability & Observability
↬ Metrics
↬ Alerting
↬ Failover
↬ Logging
↬ Rollbacks
↬ Monitoring
↬ Heartbeats
↬ Retry Logic
↬ Autoscaling
↬ SLO/SLI/SLA
↬ Load Testing
↬ Error Budgets
↬ Health Checks
↬ Circuit Breaker
↬ Incident Response
↬ Chaos Engineering
↬ Distributed Tracing
↬ Canary Deployments
↬ Graceful Degradation
↬ Blue-Green Deployment

[Bryan Johnson @bryan_johnson]

This is it.
Everything learned spending millions on longevity.

From: Your Immortal Unc and Auntie.
To: Our Immortal nieces and nephews.

0. Sleep is the world's most powerful drug.
1. Be in your bed for 8 hours
2. Same bedtime every night, any time before midnight
3. Don’t eat right before bed
4. Calm foods for dinner
5. No screens 1 hour before bed
6. Avoid added sugar (be aware it’s in everything)
7. Avoid all things in an American convenience store
8. Avoid fried foods
9. Shoes off at the door
10. Eat whole foods, particularly veggies fruits nuts legumes berries
11. Walk a little after meals or air squats
12. Get your heart rate high routinely
13. Lift heavy things
14. Stretch daily
15. Water pik, floss, brush, tongue scrape, morning and night
16. Make an effort to drink water
17. Get sunlight when you wake up (UV is low)
18. Protect skin in midday sun
19. Stand up straight
20. See at least one friend once a week
21. Avoid plastic where you can (in all things)
22. Circulate air in rooms
23. When stressed, breathe, learn to calm your body
24. Go to the dentist
25. Avoid sitting for long times
26. Protect your hearing, the world is too loud
27. Alcohol is bad for you
28. Finish coffee before noon
29. Avoid bright lights after sunset
30. If obese, look into a GLP
31. Sleep in a cold room
32. Texting while driving is dangerous
33. Turn off all notifications
34. Limit social media use
35. Don’t smoke anything
36. If you struggle to sleep, read a physical book before bed
37. 1 hour before bed have a calm wind down routine: bath, read, light walk, listen to music
38. The body is a clock and loves routine. Have a daily morning and evening schedule.
39. Avoid long distance travel where you can
40. Baby steps first: incorporate new things slowly
41. Do less… most things don’t work.

Bonus points if you get your blood checked.

Start here, it will change your life.

[Brad Germain @bradgermain]

Absolutely, 100%

[Kevin Sorbo @ksorbs]

“The homemaker has the ultimate career. All other careers exist for one purpose only - and that is to support the ultimate career.”

- C. S. Lewis

[divyansh tiwari @DivyanshT91162]

GitHub may have just killed vibe coding.

Their new repo “spec-kit” already has 92k+ stars — and it reveals where AI-driven development is actually heading.

Instead of telling your AI:
“Build me a todo app” and hoping for the best…

You run 6 commands that turn your idea into an executable specification:

• "/speckit.constitution" → defines project rules (quality, testing, UX)
• "/speckit.specify" → explains WHAT to build, not the tech
• "/speckit.clarify" → AI asks questions to remove ambiguity
• "/speckit.plan" → choose the stack and architecture
• "/speckit.tasks" → generates dependency-ordered tasks
• "/speckit.implement" → the agent builds it

The deliverable is no longer the code.

It’s a living specification your AI can read, debate, and execute.

Works with Claude Code, Copilot, Cursor, Codex, Gemini, and 25+ other agents.

The shift most people still don’t see:

“AI writes code” → “AI executes specifications.”

Intent-driven development is the next era of software development.

Repo👇