Adam Genest

Vibe coding for DoW by day, building B2B and B2C apps by night. Views my own.

[Adam Genest @genestad]

@NASADepAdmin @NASAAdmin @SpaceX Boss: I need you to do a mandatory team building exercise tomorrow

Deputy: (sigh) Sure thing boss, where are we showing up?

Boss: My jet. Talk to Bob, he'll teach you how to use the ejection seat. See you at noon!

[Napoleon Bonaparte Appreciator @NapoleonBonabot]

The B-52’s first flight was 17 years after the first flight of the B-17. The last B-17 was manufactured 7 years before the first B-52.

[NUCLR GOLF @NUCLRGOLF]

🚨🧱🎉 #PERSPECTIVE — Michael Block is 3 shots off the lead and playing free: "I have zero to lose. I'm about to be 50. I can see my wife and my kid up on the hill there right now, and my boss, they support me 100 percent. There's zero losing this week.

[Adam Genest @genestad]

@ShawnChittle It amazes me that after all these decades we don't have an iconic movie about Washington that lives in our collective consciousness. Hopefully this changes that!

[Adam Genest @genestad]

@StumpGuyTy Perfect application for a Dipperfox

[Adam Genest @genestad]

@Astro2fish @AstroPeggy Have you ever seen the Space Explorers videos/movies in an Oculus by Peter Paul Studios? I always wondered how the real experience compared to what they captured (because what they captured and are able to share in virtual reality is an astonishing experience for a non-astronaut)

[InfantryDort @infantrydort]

The king of all military situation reports.

A warrior could live 10,000 lives and still never utter a single sentence half as powerful.

[Adam Genest @genestad]

@astro_reid @NASA @NASAArtemis @AstroVicGlover @Astro_Christina @Astro_Jeremy @csa_asc You all are the best of us - for all mankind!

[Reid Wiseman @astro_reid]

The view from inside Integrity as recovery forces pop open the hatch…watching the helicopter pass over their shoulders and hearing all the joy, it was as good as it gets.

[Adam Genest @genestad]

@fahdpar23 @bethanyshondark I currently work in government and I'm absolutely going to sneak this word into something

[Isabel Brown @theisabelb]

While filling in for @PressSec, @marcorubio answers a powerful question: "What is your hope for America at a time such as this?"

His answer blew me away.

[Adam Genest @genestad]

@JaredDHardin As we say in hockey, "fucking right." Awesome job man.

[Adam Genest @genestad]

@CuriosityonX And to think we drove a car on that thing 50+ years ago

[Adam Genest @genestad]

@JJEnglert This tracks with my experience in the federal government too - it's a sisyphean (and infuriating) task to get people to realize that there are now more pathways to functional software than bloated traditional acquisitions or "software factories"

[JJ Englert @JJEnglert]

10 things I'm seeing on the frontlines of AI adoption in the enterprise:

1. Chat is where 90% of employees still live. It's the gateway drug. Everything else is downstream of getting people comfortable here first.

2. Power users discover Cowork and lose their minds. It's the "wait, it can actually do the work?" moment.

3. Claude Code has very little penetration with non-technical users in the enterprise still.

4. Microsoft being the "approved" tool doesn't matter. Employees route around Copilot and pitch their managers for Claude access on their own.

5. Artifacts in Claude are a breakout feature. People don't want to view them — they want to deploy them, connect them to Snowflake, etc., ship them as internal MVPs for their org to actually use.

6. Cowork is crossing the line from "demo" to "real work." Legal teams redlining contracts. Ops teams running workflows. Then immediately asking: how do I automate this for production?

7. The next unlock → automated cloud workflows that leverage an agent like Claude while keeping non-technical users within the tools they're already using and in a chat interface. The demand is screaming.

8. Terminology is major blocker. Projects vs. skills vs. plugins vs. agents. I've explained "what is a skill" 200+ times. The moment it clicks, people get excited — but the path there is too long.

9. Enterprise IT restrictions (locked connectors, no browser access) quietly strip Cowork of its superpowers. The features that make it magical are the first ones IT disables.

10. There is a high level of "AI insecurity". For the first time in a long time, people at all levels (even C-Suite) need to signifcantly upskill in order to stay world class in their positions, and this is causing people to be insecure about their skill set across the org.

General note on Microsoft: I spent a lot of this past week deep in Power Automate and Copilot Studio trying to build an automated solution in the cloud — given it's the native tool with sanctioned access to their org's data.

It's ~90% there. But the final 10% is riddled with terrible UX, inconsistent behavior, and a generally poor experience.

Honestly feels like Microsoft is fumbling the biggest moment in their company's history with software that has all the features on paper but lacks the magical "just works" moment for non-technical team members. The gap is wide open and they're letting others
"eat their lunch" right now.

[Matt Mullin @matthewwmullin]

Search through all of the released images here:
https://t.co/AbdaoFMJpn

[Adam Genest @genestad]

@Astro_ChrisW Thanks - I kinda wonder what exposure lengths would equate to in terms of eye adjustments. Like "this is what it looks like glancing out the window while working" vs "this is what it looks like when our eyes adjust for 10 minutes in darkness staring out of the window"

[Adam Genest @genestad]

@Astro_ChrisW I'm going to ask a dumb question - is that what your eyes "see" or is this a result of camera settings allowing for capturing more light than what a person would typically experience just looking out a window?

[Matt Mullin @matthewwmullin]

NASA HAS RELEASED OVER 12,000 IMAGES OF THE ARTEMIS II MISSION.

Unbelievable perspectives captured by the Crew! The aurora on the eclipse is incredible.

[Adam Genest @genestad]

@elonmusk Did that love of huge machines start as a kid?