Dan Singerman

Parent, programmer, inverts the Y-axis, makes silly word games on the Internet. The Last Jedi is the best Star Wars movie, don’t @ me.

[Kyle 🚄 @KyleTrainEmoji]

PICARD: Data, shields up

DATA: Brilliant! Shields can reduce damage we sustain. Not immunity. Not hubris. Just prudence. It's not precaution—it's strategy.

[camera shakes]

WORF: HULL BREACHES ON NINE DECKS

DATA: Here's what happened: you told me to raise shields, and I didn't

[WordAll @wordallgame]

Play our new game https://t.co/innFUymqKf . Let us know what you think!

[Dan Singerman @dansingerman]

@michaelkoper Which one?

[Obie Fernandez @obie]

Those 10,000 hours you spent becoming a great programmer aren’t useless at all. They’re what give you the two things that actually matter now: judgment and taste.

Judgment is knowing when what the AI produced is correct, robust, and appropriate versus when it’s subtly wrong, brittle, or dangerous. Models can generate code. They can’t reliably evaluate it in real context. (Or at least for the forseeable future, they are really really slow at it.)

Taste is knowing what to build, how it should feel to use, where to draw boundaries, and when something is “good enough” versus genuinely good. It’s the difference between shipping output and shipping a product.

AI is commoditizing keystrokes, not expertise. The bottleneck has moved up the stack from typing code to deciding what’s worth shipping and standing behind.

Your years weren’t spent learning syntax. They were spent training your instincts.

[Peter Girnus 🦅 @gothburz]

Last quarter I rolled out Microsoft Copilot to 4,000 employees.

$30 per seat per month.

$1.4 million annually.

I called it "digital transformation."

The board loved that phrase.

They approved it in eleven minutes.

No one asked what it would actually do.

Including me.

I told everyone it would "10x productivity."

That's not a real number.

But it sounds like one.

HR asked how we'd measure the 10x.

I said we'd "leverage analytics dashboards."

They stopped asking.

Three months later I checked the usage reports.

47 people had opened it.

12 had used it more than once.

One of them was me.

I used it to summarize an email I could have read in 30 seconds.

It took 45 seconds.

Plus the time it took to fix the hallucinations.

But I called it a "pilot success."

Success means the pilot didn't visibly fail.

The CFO asked about ROI.

I showed him a graph.

The graph went up and to the right.

It measured "AI enablement."

I made that metric up.

He nodded approvingly.

We're "AI-enabled" now.

I don't know what that means.

But it's in our investor deck.

A senior developer asked why we didn't use Claude or ChatGPT.

I said we needed "enterprise-grade security."

He asked what that meant.

I said "compliance."

He asked which compliance.

I said "all of them."

He looked skeptical.

I scheduled him for a "career development conversation."

He stopped asking questions.

Microsoft sent a case study team.

They wanted to feature us as a success story.

I told them we "saved 40,000 hours."

I calculated that number by multiplying employees by a number I made up.

They didn't verify it.

They never do.

Now we're on Microsoft's website.

"Global enterprise achieves 40,000 hours of productivity gains with Copilot."

The CEO shared it on LinkedIn.

He got 3,000 likes.

He's never used Copilot.

None of the executives have.

We have an exemption.

"Strategic focus requires minimal digital distraction."

I wrote that policy.

The licenses renew next month.

I'm requesting an expansion.

5,000 more seats.

We haven't used the first 4,000.

But this time we'll "drive adoption."

Adoption means mandatory training.

Training means a 45-minute webinar no one watches.

But completion will be tracked.

Completion is a metric.

Metrics go in dashboards.

Dashboards go in board presentations.

Board presentations get me promoted.

I'll be SVP by Q3.

I still don't know what Copilot does.

But I know what it's for.

It's for showing we're "investing in AI."

Investment means spending.

Spending means commitment.

Commitment means we're serious about the future.

The future is whatever I say it is.

As long as the graph goes up and to the right.

[Dan Singerman @dansingerman]

Entered a prompt on the landing page, then it started the sign up flow, after which it had forgotten the prompt. Then I entered the prompt again and it failed with an error. So not too impressed so far.

Vibe coded apps still need to be better at UX and robustness.

[Y Combinator @ycombinator]

Emergent (@emergentlabs) is the agentic vibe-coding platform — your AI-powered CTO that transforms ideas into full-stack, production-ready products. No developers needed. Just pure system-level thinking.

Congrats on the launch @mukundjha & @madhavjha!

https://t.co/CzGJ85oYd5

[I Am Devloper @iamdevloper]

Junior developer: “what if it works?”
Senior developer: “what if it fails?”
Vibe coder: *deploys*

[Dan Singerman @dansingerman]

@Herring1967 "Is this the Potato Farm?"
* french accent* "Yes, I am Albert Potato"

[Dan Singerman @dansingerman]

Delighted for this, and delighted for @StevenRayByrd

[The Hollywood Reporter @THR]

Ketchup Entertainment has made it official by acquiring from Warner Bros. Pictures the worldwide rights to #CoyoteVsAcme, which stars Will Forte and John Cena opposite an animated Wile E. Coyote https://t.co/61nT7jCkrg

[ClickFunnels @clickfunnels]

Over the past decade, ClickFunnels has evolved from a tool into a movement—a thriving community, a marketing hub, and the backbone of countless businesses.

ClickFunnels 2.0 wasn’t just an upgrade; it became the standard. So, we’re dropping “2.0.” It’s just ClickFunnels now—the ultimate platform for launching, growing & scaling.

Same mission. Bold new vibe. We make entrepreneurship easy (and fun!). You built a dream—now build it a funnel. 🚀

#DreamBigDoBig #FunnelYourWayToSuccess #ClickFunnels

[Dan Singerman @dansingerman]

@AskeBay Hey @AskeBay , the seller has contacted me asking if I want a return. But when I reply to them it just says “message sending failed”. What should I do?

[Dan Singerman @dansingerman]

Used @eBay for the first time ever yesterday to buy an item I couldn’t find elsewhere. It arrived today, but was the incorrect item so I politely informed them that it was wrong and if they had the right item. Now my eBay account has been permanently suspended WTF

[Dan Singerman @dansingerman]

@AskeBay I already spoke to an agent. He said they were not able to revoke the suspension, couldn’t explain to me why I’d been suspended, and agreed that it made no sense. His suggestion for my only course of action was to do a charge back on my credit card.

[Dan Singerman @dansingerman]

That is all my activity ever in eBay 🤷‍♂️

[Dan Singerman @dansingerman]

@andrewculver If you're there for the evening, you should check out Bairro Alto

[Steven Ray Byrd @StevenRayByrd]

#releasecoyotevsacme

[Dan Singerman @dansingerman]

@mhmazur You can definitely get the post shadow banned if it gets upvotes from a direct link (I’ve had that before)

[Dan Singerman @dansingerman]

@Herring1967 Makes me laugh every time

[Dan Singerman @dansingerman]

@Ankaman616 Your article drawing comparisons between Southampton's goal away to Chelsea and The Prestige is one of my favourite pieces of sports writing of all time.