John Van Wagenen

Husband. Father. Member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Software Engineer. Leader.

[John Van Wagenen @jtvanwage]

Power in the age of AI comes from putting GPUs on racks https://t.co/ksjStPuyxJ via @aidailybrief

[John Van Wagenen @jtvanwage]

Time to see what the fuss is about with triathlons

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More data center thoughts. We absolutely need them. Let's build them responsibly.

https://t.co/k128Gip3il

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Regions with abundant water resources, cooler climates, and grids built to absorb massive thermal loads are more responsible choices. Our lawmakers need to look past short-term tax incentives and guide this infrastructure to the places where it makes ecological sense. (13/13)

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As a software engineer with an AI degree, I’m fully supportive of expanding global compute. We urgently need more data centers to keep up with current demand and fuel future breakthroughs.

But we need to talk about the physics and geography of the Stratos Project. 👇 (1/13)

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We absolutely need to build out global AI compute. But is a fossil-fuel-powered mega-campus in a fragile desert valley the right choice? Likely no, unless developers invest the time and capital into clean geothermal or nuclear paired with advanced immersion cooling. (12/13)

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My results got better when I stopped treating AI like a coding assistant and started treating it like a team.

The workflow is the superpower. The tool just runs it.

https://t.co/yRzLC9Agrc

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People keep saying Claude Code is the way to go, but I'm not seeing it. The only advantage I've seen is the CLI. Everything else seems to come out to ergonomics.

What am I missing?

#VibeCoding

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Nobody told you, but you're a manager now.

You've got an intern. Fast, capable, occasionally chaotic. Whether you wanted to manage or not — here we are.

The skills that make a great manager are the same ones that make AI actually useful.

https://t.co/ySFrIZjGyL

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Most of us treat AI like a smarter autocomplete. But it’s much more powerful as an orchestrator.

I broke down how I turned my personal bug-fixing workflow into a structured, two-phase AI system (Planning + Implementation).

Full breakdown: https://t.co/oRaO1zHvjI