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I make things that compile @VerticalSaaS, while @marlot makes things that compost. General of ists. @[email protected]

[🧙🏻‍♂️Jono @jspiro]

OpenAI violated the Prime Directive by giving us an alien technology long before we were ready. Now we get to live to see why Starfleet wrote the rule.

[🧙🏻‍♂️Jono @jspiro]

@jamaalism @FirstNameJ0hn Get your pulse checked

[🧙🏻‍♂️Jono @jspiro]

@ChrisLevati @FirstNameJ0hn

[🧙🏻‍♂️Jono @jspiro]

@Mike_Andreuzza @mvilola @socialwithaayan That means little. Notarization just means you paid $99 a year and some basic checks were done to not use private APIs.

[🧙🏻‍♂️Jono @jspiro]

If you use Claude Code, Cursor, or other AI coding tools on Mac — I built a thing.

📋 AutoClip watches your screenshot folder and auto-copies new files to your clipboard. Screenshot a bug, paste it right into your AI tool. One thing well, nothing else.

https://t.co/Q39EnHFVJP

[Governor Newsom Press Office @GovPressOffice]

NOW THAT I, GAVIN C. NEWSOM, AM OFFICIALLY PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES (THANK YOU DONALD!), I HAVE MANY BIG ANNOUNCEMENTS TO MAKE! FIRST, EVERY TRUMP EXECUTIVE ORDER IS NULL AND VOID, STEPHEN MILLER AND EVERY TRUMP GOON IS FIRED, AND THE TRUMP CORRUPTION PROBE IS OFFICIALLY LAUNCHED! HEALTH CARE IS NOW FREE FOR ALL AMERICANS (NO MEASLES!) AND ALL MOMS GET FREE CHILDCARE SO WE CAN HAVE MORE BABIES!!! ALSO CANNABIS IS NOW LEGAL AND ABORTION IS BACK FOR WOMEN WHO WANT IT. I WILL SOON BE BANNING ALL TICKETMASTER FEES AND THERE WILL BE NO MORE COMMERCIALS ALLOWED DURING NBA AND NFL GAMES, AS WELL AS ALL BRAVO “REAL HOUSEWIVES” SHOWS (LONGER EPISODES!). EVERY AMERICAN FAMILY NOW GETS A “TARIFF AND GAS SPIKE REFUND” TO BUY A CHEAP ELECTRIC CAR! THE COUNTRY IS NOW RUN BY SOMEONE WHO CAN ACTUALLY COMPLETE A SENTENCE. AMERICA IS NOW “HOT” BECAUSE YOU HAVE A DYSLEXIC PRESIDENT INSTEAD OF A BRAIN-DEAD ONE. BIG UPGRADE!!! — GOVERNOR GCN

[🧙🏻‍♂️Jono @jspiro]

.@panic Latest Tahoe beta finally killed CandyBar. I was still using it, and now it's doing weird stuff (can't export from it, every icon is the same). It also consumed 250GB of memory due to a leak.

So, Claude and I made an export utility: https://t.co/M9wzA0Vji6

[Sen. Cory Booker @SenBooker]

Today, many leaders will rightly condemn President Donald Trump’s unlawful and unjust actions in Venezuela, and I join them.

But just as glaring, and far more damning, is Congress’ ongoing abdication of its constitutional duty. For almost a year now, the legislative branch has failed to check a president who repeatedly violates his oath, disregards the law, and endangers American interests at home and abroad.

Time and again, Congress, now led by Republicans, has chosen spineless complicity over its sworn responsibilities. From the reckless leaking of classified information that put American troops at risk, to the illegal use of military force destroying vessels and killing people in the Caribbean and the Pacific without congressional authorization, there has been a stunning absence of accountability.

No hearings.
No serious investigations.
No enforcement of checks and balances.
No accountability.

Again and again, the president has exceeded his authority, defied congressional intent, trampled the separation of powers, and broken the law - while Congress looked away in cowardice and submission.

Republicans in Congress own this corrosive collapse of our constitutional order. With only a handful of honorable exceptions, they have bent themselves to the will of Donald Trump, afraid to state in public the feelings they often communicate privately. That submission, this abandonment of independent judgment and constitutional courage, now stands as one of the greatest dangers to our nation and to the global order America claims to defend.

Nicolás Maduro is a brutal dictator who has committed grave abuses. The United States military remains the most capable fighting force on Earth, and our praiseworthy service members carry out their orders with professionalism and excellence.

But none of that suspends the Constitution.

The Constitution is unambiguous: Congress has the power and responsibility to authorize the use of military force and declare war. Congress has a duty of oversight. Congress must serve as a check, not a rubber stamp, to the President. On this count, Congress has failed.

We face an authoritarian-minded president who acts with dangerous growing impunity. He has shown a willingness to defy court orders, violate the law, ignore congressional intent, and shred basic norms of decency and democracy. This pattern will continue unless the Article I branch of government, especially Republican congressional leadership, finds the courage to act.

They must stop behaving as partisan puppets and start acting as patriotic constitutional stewards.

What happened today is wrong. Congressional Republicans would say so immediately if a Democratic president had done the same. Their silence is surrender. And in that surrender lie the seeds of our democratic unraveling.

There are still three years left in this administration. From the pardoning of individuals who violently attacked police officers while attempting to overturn our election to this latest extrajudicial assault on another nation’s sovereignty, the damage will continue unless it is confronted.

Enough is enough.

Congress has failed. But it is not too late to redeem the harm done by a year of submission and silence. Congress must act now. It must reassert its constitutional authority, restore the rule of law, and stop this president before further injury is done to our democracy and our republic.

[Kritika kumari @kritikatwtss]

Someone just said it

[rahul @rahulgs]

yes things are changing fast, but also I see companies (even faang) way behind the frontier for no reason.

you are guaranteed to lose if you fall behind.

the no unforced-errors ai leader playbook:

For your team:
- use coding agents. give all engineers their pick of harnesses, models, background agents: Claude code, Cursor, Devin, with closed/open models. Hearing Meta engineers are forced to use Llama 4. Opus 4.5 is the baseline now.

- give your agents tools to ALL dev tooling: Linear, GitHub, Datadog, Sentry, any Internal tooling. If agents are being held back because of lack of context that’s your fault.

- invest in your codebase specific agent docs. stop saying “doesn’t do X well”. If that’s an issue, try better prompting, https://t.co/SOjpn47yxo, linting, and code rules. Tell it how you want things. Every manual edit you make is an opportunity for https://t.co/S1ZvtYQwta improvement

- invest in robust background agent infra - get a full development stack working on VM/sandboxes. yes it’s hard to set up but it will be worth it, your engineers can run multiple in parallel. Code review will be the bottleneck soon.

- figure out security issues. stop being risk averse and do what is needed to unblock access to tools.

in your product:

- always use the latest generation models in your features (move things off of last gen models asap, unless robust evals indicate otherwise). Requires changes every 1-2 weeks - eg: GitHub copilot mobile still offers code review with gpt 4.1 and Sonnet 3.5 @jaredpalmer. You are leaving money on the table by being on Sonnet 4, or gpt 4o

- Use embedding semantic search instead of fuzzy search. Any general embedding model will do better than Levenshtein / fuzzy heuristics.

- leave no form unfilled. use structured outputs and whatever context you have on the user to do a best-effort pre-fill

- allow unstructured inputs on all product surfaces - must accept freeform text and documents. Forms are dead.

- custom finetuning is dead. Stop wasting time on it. Frontier is moving too fast to invest 8 weeks into finetuning. Costs are dropping too quickly for price to matter. Better prompting will take you very far and this will only become more true as instruction following improves

- build evals to make quick model-upgrade decisions. they don’t need to be perfect but at least need to allow you to compare models relative to each other. most decisions become clear on a Pareto cost vs benchmark perf plot

- encourage all engineers to build with ai: build primitives to call models from all code bases / models: structured output, semantic similarity endpoints, sandbox code execution. etc

What else am I missing?

[Andrej Karpathy @karpathy]

I've never felt this much behind as a programmer. The profession is being dramatically refactored as the bits contributed by the programmer are increasingly sparse and between. I have a sense that I could be 10X more powerful if I just properly string together what has become available over the last ~year and a failure to claim the boost feels decidedly like skill issue. There's a new programmable layer of abstraction to master (in addition to the usual layers below) involving agents, subagents, their prompts, contexts, memory, modes, permissions, tools, plugins, skills, hooks, MCP, LSP, slash commands, workflows, IDE integrations, and a need to build an all-encompassing mental model for strengths and pitfalls of fundamentally stochastic, fallible, unintelligible and changing entities suddenly intermingled with what used to be good old fashioned engineering. Clearly some powerful alien tool was handed around except it comes with no manual and everyone has to figure out how to hold it and operate it, while the resulting magnitude 9 earthquake is rocking the profession. Roll up your sleeves to not fall behind.

[🧙🏻‍♂️Jono @jspiro]

@CRTisaCult @Niborobin55 @LePapillonBlu2 You sure about that?

[Ron Filipkowski @RonFilipkowski]

This is both disgusting and expected.

The Scumbag-in-Chief

[🧙🏻‍♂️Jono @jspiro]

@SnazzyLabs This specific Benchmade knife, living on the edge of your pocket, every day. Amazing how many things it does in a day.
https://t.co/Iy3B8400Dy

[Andrea Junker @Strandjunker]

Musk’s Wealth
2012: $2 billion
2025: $436.3 billion

Bezos’ Wealth
2012: $18.4 billion
2025: $244.2 billion

Zuckerberg’s Wealth
2012: $17.5 billion
2025: $257.8 billion

Federal Minimum Wage
2012: $7.25
2025: $7.25

It’s not the start of an oligarchy. — We’re in the thick of it.

[🧙🏻‍♂️Jono @jspiro]

@SnazzyLabs The liquid glass effects are cool in some cases, mostly distracting, and I strongly dislike control center. But iOS 26 wins across the board in menus and submenus, they look fantastic and are generally much more usable.

[🧙🏻‍♂️Jono @jspiro]

EQUALITY-EQUITY-JUSTICE

Eh, I did my best. At least it exists now.

[Gavin Newsom @GavinNewsom]

Trump’s election rigging comes to an end now. California won’t stand by and watch Trump burn it all down — we are calling a special election to redraw our Congressional maps and defend fair representation.

This is a five alarm fire for Democracy. Vote YES November 4.

[🧙🏻‍♂️Jono @jspiro]

@oliemack @SnazzyLabs Apple could account for the perspective with a screen and camera on the external disk, dynamically adjusting the Apple logo so it always looks flat to ... one viewer.

[🧙🏻‍♂️Jono @jspiro]

@SnazzyLabs Their entire design system is scattershot this release. Solid glass is jiggly now in control center beta... whut?

I'm running it on my iPad but tbh not sure I want to install it on my phone come September ... feels like the first setback release. Of course I will but 😩

[Brian Krassenstein @krassenstein]

BREAKING: The US government has just removed sections 9 and 10 of Article I of the US Constitution from their website.

Note that sections 9 and 10 deal with:

- Writ of Habeas Corpus
- Congresses ability to control tariffs.

See screenshots below: July 1 Vs. Today.

Please share. This is sickening!

[JWeb @JWeb777]

@RSPolitics The people who love to call others “snowflakes” appear to be very upset about a cartoon.