Jeff Weiler

Software developer for 13+ yrs. Azure developer, Interested in #dotnet. Real estate investor. Christian and father of 5.

[Jeff Weiler @jsweiler]

@luke_netti Just found this and joined the waitlist, looks like something I've wished would exist!

[Jeff Weiler @jsweiler]

A good reminder.

[Kevin Dahlstrom @Camp4]

Take it from me, a recent empty nester:

The Good Old Days don’t feel like it at the time.

It feels more like hard work and struggle. The days are long but the years fly by.

Then, one day you wake up and the house is quiet.

One of my most cherished memories is coming home from work each day and opening the creaky back door to our 1947 craftsman home.

My 3-year-old daughter (now 21) would drop her toys and run down the hall—her footsteps booming on the old wood floor—to greet me.

I love my life and don’t want to go back, but I do wish I could pass one message across time to 35-year-old me:

You’re living the Good Old Days right now. Savor every moment.

[Simon Wardley @swardley]

Software engineers, you have 5 days left.

14 March 2025. Amodei said that AI would write all the software in 12 months. That's five days from now. Prepare to disappear.

https://t.co/aGU3K0Rl75

[Jeff Weiler @jsweiler]

@ThinkAppraiser If I buy some it's sure to crash.

[Jeff Weiler @jsweiler]

@MarkovMagnifico Well at least it runs!

[KyleMatthewsCEO @kylematthewsceo]

Stopping Wall Street from buying homes is more likely to harm the housing market than help it.

Institutions own ~0.5% of homes. They are already net sellers.

Real data on the proposal’s effects + what today’s BLS Report means for the Fed at the link below:

The "Wall Street Ban" & Single-Family Housing https://t.co/m7Ds88gw7d

[Jeff Weiler @jsweiler]

Applies to many things.

[Peter Mallouk @PeterMallouk]

Nothing gains value faster than something you no longer have.

[Jeff Weiler @jsweiler]

@JoshuaBarzon I have about 128 million reasons.

[Lisa Forte @LisaForteUK]

Nailed it

[Jeff Weiler @jsweiler]

@FluentInFinance It's definitely an asset, however not all assets perform the same.

[Jeff Weiler @jsweiler]

@charliebilello I'm sorta surprised they haven't done this yet.

[Jeff Weiler @jsweiler]

@rohanpaul_ai As long as they don't break Graph and Azure all the time I guess that's fine.

[Jeff Weiler @jsweiler]

@MrEwanMorrison Seems 2026 is a bit early? I does seem like something will burst sometime.

[Jeff Weiler @jsweiler]

@HeroDividend Helping keep you Standard and Poor. 😃

[Jeff Weiler @jsweiler]

🤣😂

[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.

[Jeff Weiler @jsweiler]

@rossiadam Just shows you have to think for yourself.

[Jeff Weiler @jsweiler]

@BasedBiohacker Once I realized most of them come from China anyway I did the same.

[Jeff Weiler @jsweiler]

@vxunderground Thanks for this tip!

[Jeff Weiler @jsweiler]

@ADHDForReal Add 2 to 48
so then 50 + 27 = 77
then subtract 2 = 75

[Jeff Weiler @jsweiler]

@bensmithlive What kind of sauna?