Jesse Riley

I do nerdy things with product, culture and code. Building an orchard. I also have rare cars (1:300, 1:750, 1:2282 1:4000) ... that are not worth anything.

[Jesse Riley @jeriley]

entre-manure : hand wavey bullshit from people running a company with no clue.

[Jesse Riley @jeriley]

@JKRobotics @zanehengsperger you're light-years ahead. Don't fall for the SCALE SCALE SCALE trap either. I do a talk on it (and wasn't invited back to a startup conference ... true story)

[Jesse Riley @jeriley]

When it comes to donations and such, which is a better way...

completely anonymous - or put your name on it?

I've done a lot (no, a LOT) of anonymous donations over the years, and only to causes and needs where I know where and what, plus who's running it - but not once did I say "sure, they can know it was me". Not one single time.

I'm thinking now, I should? Should I put my name on it? Do you? if so, why or why not?

[Jesse Riley @jeriley]

@PjMichael8 humble suggestion : bernoulli's principle -- it defies basic logic and reason until you see it and explains so. many. things.

[Jesse Riley @jeriley]

It's a question everyone should ask. And expect a real answer.

Notice none of these clowns say how long or how much it cost them to "get there" nor any details past the hype bullshitary?

[Vivid Void @vividvoid]

Look I don't mean to be this late to the game but how the hell are you guys vibe coding entire apps and the models are getting it right. ChatGPT has been struggling to correctly update my e-mail list for two hours now.

[Jesse Riley @jeriley]

@NWSBoulder RIP @DENAirport

[Jesse Riley @jeriley]

@frankiemuniz we used it for wing support on one of your NASCAR trucks.

[Jesse Riley @jeriley]

You missed the point.

It was/still is the hype train - that's why those companies went away and burned money.

Instead of understanding what it's for, what's its good at, and what it's not. Others actually solved the problem and ...well, did a real business with paying customers.

The other problem, bringing up finance (hi, I work for one) is the regulations. It's better under the current administration but no, "is being" adopted doesn't mean "is currently", -- because of those regulations, certification, audits, and other ...things. Which is part of the bane of my existence.

[Jesse Riley @jeriley]

If you’re watching the investor money dry up, you have a non-profit and didn’t know it.

No different than “Web3, NFT, BLOCKCHAIN BROOOO”. Just now it’s “AI”.

[BlackRoomSec @blackroomsec]

If you've never worked for a startup and watched when the investor money dried up and what happened next, you will never understand what this tweet actually means in the context of what is happening now with AI. Everyone who fell for this got played.

[Jesse Riley @jeriley]

NFTs did (does?) have a use case and a few companies did a fantastic job at it - but per usual hype train bullshit, most places didn't use it for what its good at/designed to do and turned it into a scam. Blockchain, exact same thing, but different.

And we're just now getting there; all of those garbage companies are gone now and moved on. Per usual, took about 10 years. Sorry I mean "overnight success".

I could do a 4 hour talk on how the big accelerators have turned "fund raising" to mean success. Fund raising is for non-profits, investments are strategic events in a business. You know, with customers. that pay you.

[Jesse Riley @jeriley]

So close this weekend. Its on the ground but due to 2 problems that I created... I didnt get to crank it over.

Replaced a 2nd stuck lifter, new one would NOT go home. 4. hours. wasted.

and I MIGHT....MIGHT... have installed some exhaust hardware upside down. 2 hours wasted.

It needs the oil pan bolts done up, a bunch of things up top torqued to spec ... I'm so so close. And I still love that yellow valve cover.

[Jesse Riley @jeriley]

Waiting for all the new Will Power memes to come out now. Nice to see him back. (He was done dirty, completely justified)

[Jesse Riley @jeriley]

shits gettin real. If I can get a lifter to go back in its happy little home, this thing is going to be running by tomorrow

...and I love this yellow paint (it doesn't match perfectly but who. cares.)

[Jesse Riley @jeriley]

Things that have caused more problems in software than anything else - in no particular order.

quotes and tick marks
line endings
slashes
spaces, tabs
excel

[Jesse Riley @jeriley]

when I was a kid (and before, you know, rules for stupid) I would do my homework in the machine/fab shop my dad ran, usually on the entirely safe metal racks or on the "theres still a floor?" 2nd level. I miss the smell and the constant variety of noise.

9/10, would work from there.

[Jesse Riley @jeriley]

@jimbelosic my dad's a retired manufacturer / fabrication guy (ran shop, estimation, sales) - any care for that?

[Jesse Riley @jeriley]

@oreillyauto this is a very shortened version

[Jesse Riley @jeriley]

@frankiemuniz how good are you with indy cars? asking for a friend

[Jesse Riley @jeriley]

Companies are right to freak out about their data training competitor AI.

I just built the fix with hardware I already owned: five old boxes + a not-so-powerful router -- all of them running Ollama. One URL for everything. It auto-detects models, routes requests intelligently, and balances load. Added my own private RAG on top so “ask Jesse <anything>” pulls from my docs with sources. Because reasons.

$0 new spend. Zero data out.

Your iron’s already there. Open models are everywhere. A few hundred lines of code glues it together. It's fan. tastic.

You’re closer than you think.