Ken Day

Oil and gas, geothermal, power gen, batteries. Partner and VP engineering of Energy company. Views are my own

[Ken Day @kenwday]

I am deeply sadden by the passing of Dr. Bommer. Dr. Paul Bommer was one of my favorite professors at UT Austin. Pragmatic, witty, snarky, kind, and he challenged us in such an engaging way.

The way he answered questions just made sense to me, a young kid that didn't know anything but thought he knew everything. He once taught me an excellent lesson on how to keep your boss (him in that case) informed with progress updates on projects, and how you get your butt chewed out when you don't!

I frequently use his words of wisdom and his stories with young engineers. He will always have a deep influence on my career and life, and I know many other UT petroleum engineering grads feel the same.

Dr Bommer, you will be missed.

[Chris Atherton @atherton_chris]

@texas1947172131 Thank you. I have no idea who anyone is on Twitter. Maybe I talked to you yesterday maybe or no or sometimes

[Ken Day @kenwday]

SP500 is already down 0.62% over 2 days with Kevin Warsh as Fed chair. At this rate the SP500 will be down 450% over his term. 🚀🧨

[Ken Day @kenwday]

@GordonGekko420 Sorry I’m being completely unhelpful ha

[Ken Day @kenwday]

@kells940 Haven’t used manus, I’ll have to check it out, thanks 👍

[Ken Day @kenwday]

If you're using Claude for Excel, handy tip... Claude doesn't really keep context between spreadsheets, but have Claude add a tab that details exactly what it did and how. If you have similar spreadsheets in the future, this provides a context memory for future sessions.

[Ken Day @kenwday]

The last Oil And Gas town standing in NHL playoffs is the Colorado Avalanche. Go Avs !

[Ken Day @kenwday]

Update on my soccer automated camera system. Orig system had two cameras on a stand that allowed the angle between them to change, so every match the angle between cameras was different. This was a software headache to solve for the angle before combining the footage together. I decided to 3-D print a holder that fixes the cameras at exactly 90 degrees from each other- math and programming is much simpler. Solved through hardware instead of software in this case

[Ken Day @kenwday]

Veo costs $1300 and then you need a $3000/yr subscription. I vibe coded a copy setup in 3 weeks. Here's how.

[Ken Day @kenwday]

This is the Cherokee generating station, which has a nameplate ~1,000 MW capacity and burns natural gas. Used to be coal, and was switched to reduce carbon emissions. Link to video: https://t.co/kbEApj6RKd

[Ken Day @kenwday]

Xcel has been running this commercial with two guys talking about how solar is great- while walking through a nat gas CCG station. Maybe a subtle hint that the real answer is a mix of renewables and natural gas generation? Blink twice if that’s what you’re actually saying, Xcel!

[Ken Day @kenwday]

@GeologicSuccess *not shale

[Ken Day @kenwday]

Wells in ‘permanently damaged’ conventional reservoirs being brought back online

[Ken Day @kenwday]

From @jackprandelli

[Ken Day @kenwday]

Got to think that UAE OPEC pull out is bearish for oil prices, but possibly adds to volatility? The dynamics of the Middle East are changing

[Ken Day @kenwday]

@birria_Energy

[Ken Day @kenwday]

Was talking to 3 other soccer parents yesterday evening, all 3 didn't know what a CPU vs GPU was, and 2 of 3 hadn't used LLM's yet.

[Ken Day @kenwday]

Data point: I was trying to get space on a Google data center yesterday for a VM, couldn’t get anything all day until 7pm mt.

[Ken Day @kenwday]

So I'll take a serious stab at why Claude and other LLMs will consistently give the answer of "shut in middle east wells = permanent damage" which is not correct. And a general thought on LLM answers...

OPEC has a vested interest in not shutting in their production because that's how they make money. It's a helpful narrative to say "we can't shut in, or the wells will die". This gets repeated by news articles, politicians, etc because it sounds plausible. But there's a high chance it's not technically sound. LLM's train off of this data and create an inference response, predicting a most likely reply. It does not think critically about the nuance of a biased answer from OPEC, or whether the answer is technically competent. In this case, it magnifies what is likely misunderstood narratives of reservoir engineering.

Dan is a smart guy. We are all going to be more susceptible to this LLM heuristic trap going forward.

[Daniel S. Loeb @DanielSLoeb1]

@Parag_Oilman 🤷🏼‍♂️ blame Claude. Thx for your perspective.

[ClaudeDevs @ClaudeDevs]

Over the past month, some of you reported Claude Code's quality had slipped. We investigated, and published a post-mortem on the three issues we found.

All are fixed in v2.1.116+ and we’ve reset usage limits for all subscribers.