Chris Balt

Seattle & big-tech exile. Investing in my family, community, and country 🇺🇸. Slowly re-making my X re-entry. CPO @Subsplash

[Chris Balt @chrisbalt]

If I were in charge, I'd fire anyone who microwaves fish at work.

[End Wokeness @EndWokeness]

Charlie Kirk left a tweet for everything

[Chris Balt @chrisbalt]

@elonmusk Bedgrok!

[Chris Balt @chrisbalt]

@JustinBrady @johnkonrad @Delta This is the real, honest, elite insight.

[Chris Balt @chrisbalt]

@wjn1945 @Budget Can confirm. Their choice to avoid the actual “skip-the-counter” benefit is undoubtedly so they can waste my time pushing insurance and prepaid gas. This is absurd. In 2026 there should be no waiting in line for an hour to have a human review what I already gave a computer.

[Matt Van Swol @mattvanswol]

@JackPosobiec My wife deleted her Instagram a few weeks ago.

She is much much much MUCH happier without it.

I highly recommend this to everyone.

[Chris Balt @chrisbalt]

@zachtratar @NotionHQ @akothari Got it! Thanks, @zachtratar.

This is on desktop. It's clearly the new (to me) placeholder for diarization, but no distinction of the speakers.

[Chris Balt @chrisbalt]

@patrickc @jeff_weinstein @stripe Unbelievable innovation & release velocity, @patrickc!

[Matt Van Swol @mattvanswol]

Say what you want about The Masters...

But there is nowhere else on planet earth where you will see a photo of humans like this where not a single one of them is looking at a phone.

Truly one of the most beautiful things.

[Daniel Berk @danielcberk]

Need @AnthropicAI to let me toggle between personal and enterprise Claude account and need it yesterday.

Surely I am not the only person requiring this.

[Chris Balt @chrisbalt]

Couldn’t agree more. Seems like so much untapped potential to just have a single underlying agent infrastructure, but perhaps with a few unique interfaces tailored to the target audience.

Until then, the bifurcation just makes chat users realize like 1/10th the value. Cowork something slightly more. And Code takes the cake but it’s just not always the easiest interaction method within reach.

[Chris Balt @chrisbalt]

@amorriscode @brandonmuirhead Ironically, I find Code more useful for knowledge working tasks. At some point your knowledge project is just a repository of markdown files.

[Chris Balt @chrisbalt]

@anishmoonka “Just dropped” in January? That might as well be a decade ago these days.

[Carnivore Aurelius ©🥩 ☀️🦙 @AlpacaAurelius]

optimism is the best life and longevity hack

negative thinking destroys your brain and is associated with alzheimers disease

whereas optimism is associated with longevity

you must retain your childlike optimism and be a silly goose

[Chris Balt @chrisbalt]

@chrysb @AndrewWarner @openclaw Threads in Discord is such a delightful way to manage topical context. Worth the switch!

[sam @samdape]

you basically need to be unemployed rn to keep up

[Richie @richiemcilroy]

apparently software as we know it is dead

because Susan from accounting is going to vibe code a calendly alternative while on her lunch break

I think some of you need to go outside and speak to real people

[Chris Balt @chrisbalt]

@gregisenberg I’m still trying to figure out a way to run it economically. …it would help if 50% of my tokens weren’t spent on having it debug and fix itself.

Fun tinkering, but the ROI is quickly starting to wane.

[Chris Balt @chrisbalt]

@andrewchen Sign me up when you find the right team!