Jeff Carpenter

Intelligent Buildings design engineer, live for family, love to travel, frequent business traveler, an RV'er since my 30's.

[Jeff Carpenter @jeffcarp]

@joshwoodward I really struggle with the idea that I can decide the appropriate thinking level for an AI to use. It seems like the AI needs to decide that itself based on the context of the request.

[Jeff Carpenter @jeffcarp]

What would attract me to Lyft as a corporate traveler is a guaranteed trip reservation - not a reservation to throw my ride request out there to drivers a day or so before the trip. I want a real, reserved ride with consequences if I or the driver cancel it. @davidrisher

[Semafor @semafor]

As Lyft tries to climb out of Uber’s shadow, the company now is going after the corporate travel market.

https://t.co/578KNzYMSS

[Jeff Carpenter @jeffcarp]

@clintm123 @garyleff @KristenCrowell1 When properly looking at what "income" is defined as, he absolutely does not. You're conflating the accumulation of wealth with income and they aren't the same thing.

[Jeff Carpenter @jeffcarp]

@KristenCrowell1 Bezos holding Amazon stock isn't hoarding wealth. It's deployed, productive capital, including funding 1.5 million paychecks. You're arguing for liquidating this deployed capital so politicians can re-allocate it "better." We'll wait for your reply with your defense of that idea.

[Jeff Carpenter @jeffcarp]

@KristenCrowell1 If you want to know how real Americans are actually doing, read the 88 page Economic Well-Being of US Households (SHED) Report instead of paying attention to a hack political activist's tweets.

The facts: 73% of Americans report being "okay or living comfortably financially."

[Jeff Carpenter @jeffcarp]

@tech_sista Different user experience. Whether that matters to each user and for how much money, is the decision.

[Jeff Carpenter @jeffcarp]

<2 hours left on my 16 hr flight. @united and @AirCanada can't decide if my flight will arrive late at 06:02, 06:11, 06:40 or 06:55.

There's even a 29 minute difference between Air Canada's app and their inflight screen.

How can providing an accurate arrival time be this hard?

[Jeff Carpenter @jeffcarp]

This is a pace of Android Automotive innovation that Lincoln is not yet matching. The expansion of @LincolnMotorCo's Android Automotive user experience has been stale so far. It works but there's been very little new since 2024. @jimfarley98

[Autoblog @therealautoblog]

Volvo and Polestar roll out Google Gemini AI, bringing natural voice control to cars and putting Tesla’s in-car assistant tech under serious pressure. https://t.co/3UZsBhL7xo

[Jeff Carpenter @jeffcarp]

@praveenTweets @Waymo Your acceleration, while stubbornly staying in your lane, was the aggressive non-human response in this situation.

[Jeff Carpenter @jeffcarp]

@CMFinnigan @marcuslemonis @GavinNewsom @GovPressOffice Lastly, high GDP states tend to be tech and/or finance heavy. It's challenging for other industries to replicate the economic power of tech and finance, regardless of political policy.

[Jeff Carpenter @jeffcarp]

@CMFinnigan @marcuslemonis @GavinNewsom @GovPressOffice No, you wouldn't expect them to be. The historical agglomeration effect favors deep water ports which created industrial first in mostly blue states first. GDP also doesn't account for the cost of living. When you adjust GDP for RPP, the results change.

[Jeff Carpenter @jeffcarp]

@CMFinnigan @marcuslemonis @GavinNewsom @GovPressOffice I'm not interested in a red vs blue conversation. This was an economics/financial discussion.

The facts are: states like CA fuel a high GDP per-capita w/ high cost of living and high taxes. Given CA's high taxes, their GDP should be better but poor govt efficiency slows it.

[Jeff Carpenter @jeffcarp]

@CMFinnigan @marcuslemonis @GavinNewsom @GovPressOffice I made no comment about Washington DC. The comparison that I made was to New York.

[Jeff Carpenter @jeffcarp]

@MorePerfectUS You are choosing 300+ deaths a year just to keep a job category on life support.

The math on 2M drivers is brutal:
🛑 Humans: 326-412 deaths
✅ Waymo: 26-33 deaths

Protecting this "status quo" is like fighting a medical cure just to keep the pharmacy staff employed.

[Jeff Carpenter @jeffcarp]

@CMFinnigan @marcuslemonis @GavinNewsom @GovPressOffice Depending on if you want to consider the District of Columbia or not, California isn't 4th even with government spending included. Given the tax environment, New York is meaningfully outperforming California.

[Jeff Carpenter @jeffcarp]

@CMFinnigan @marcuslemonis @GavinNewsom @GovPressOffice What does "in GDP" mean? The overall GDP magnitude? The percentage GDP growth? The GDP per capita? The growth of GDP per capita?

[Jeff Carpenter @jeffcarp]

@CMFinnigan @marcuslemonis @GavinNewsom @GovPressOffice GDP measures success but comparisons only work if the inputs are comparable. CA's version of GDP growth relies on high taxes + heavy govt spending. Other states deliver GDP growth in a lower tax environment & with a lower public sector percentage spend. That's a real success.

[Jeff Carpenter @jeffcarp]

@madebygoogle @Kool_Jokes Yes, there are widespread reports on the Fitbit Community forums and Reddit Fitbit of a recent app update that is double counting all activity and calorie burn numbers. This could result in people eating more calories if they don't catch the error. So far Google has been silent.

[Jeff Carpenter @jeffcarp]

@MishaalRahman It is great that the ecosystem spans so many form factors. However, the primary user frustration is the lack of feature parity across them. For example, Google Maps lacks a consistent feature set and UX between the mobile app, Android Auto (projection), and Android Automotive OS.

[Jeff Carpenter @jeffcarp]

@sundarpichai @googlemaps The lack of feature parity across Google platforms is increasingly frustrating. Between Google Maps on the phone, Google Maps on Android Auto, and Google Maps on Android Automotive, there are 3 different user experiences with 3 different feature sets.