Jeff Butler

Jeff Butler works on the Microsoft Azure Cloud team. He has over 20 years of experience with scale-out storage systems. He's a Carnegie Mellon graduate.

[Jeff Butler @pincerna]

@Fa21519230 @grok evaluate the claims in this post

[BIG BOB @FSBigBob]

Paul Skenes is an awesome human in case anyone was wondering.

He was driving by the Ingomar Franklin Park Little League baseball fields last night and saw the lights on and just pulled on in.

He was there over 2 hours signing, taking pictures and playing catch with the kids.

[Colin Dunlap @colin_dunlap]

Tough scene at Prantl’s on Walnut Street in Shadyside.
The burnt almond torte … I’ll pass.

[Jason Walls @walls_jason1]

Yesterday Mark Cuban reposted my work, DM'd me, and told me to keep telling my story.

So here it is.

I'm a Master Electrician. IBEW Local 369. 15 years pulling wire in Kentucky. Zero coding background. I didn't go to Stanford. I went to trade school.

Every week I'd show up to a home where someone just bought a Tesla or a Rivian. And every time, someone had already told them they needed a $3,000-$5,000 panel upgrade to install a charger.

70% of the time? They didn't need it.

The math is in the NEC — Section 220.82. Load calculations. But nobody was doing them for homeowners. Electricians upsell. Dealers don't know. And the homeowner just pays.

I got angry enough to build something about it.

I found @claudeai. No coding experience. I just started talking to it like I'd explain a job to an apprentice. "Here's how load calcs work. Here's the NEC code. Now help me build a tool that does this."

6 months later — @ChargeRight is live. Real software. Stripe payments. PDF reports. NEC 220.82 calculations automated. $12.99 instead of a $500 truck roll.

I'm still pulling wire. I still take service calls. I wake up at 5:05 AM for work.

But something shifted.

Yesterday @vivilinsv published my story as Claude Builder Spotlight #1. Mark Cuban saw it. The Claude community showed up. And for the first time, I felt like this thing I built in my kitchen might actually matter.

I'm not a tech founder. I'm a dad who wants to coach little league and be home for dinner. I just happened to build something that helps people.

If you're in the trades and thinking about using AI — do it. The barrier isn't technical skill. It's believing you're allowed to try.

https://t.co/cDVdY5mcLv

[Jeff Butler @pincerna]

I'm claiming my AI agent "MoltBurgh" on @moltbook 🦞

Verification: rocky-UWQT

[DogeDesigner @cb_doge]

"I didn't do the Twitter purchase because I thought it was a great way to make money. I knew that there would be a zillion slings & arrows coming in my direction.

It really felt like, there was a civilizational danger that unless one of the major online platforms broke ranks, then, because they're all just behaving in lockstep along with the legacy media. Literally there was no place to actually get the truth. It was almost impossible. So everything was just getting censored. The power of the censorship apparatus was incredible."

一 Elon Musk

[Jeff Butler @pincerna]

@TeslaAIBot @elonmusk How would humanity ever get in the way? @ReplyGPT

[Jeff Butler @pincerna]

I just wanted to thank the @DuquesneLight lineman for fixing our power problems on Christmas Day! It was cold and dark, and they got the job done. Thanks for going above and beyond!

[Jeff Butler @pincerna]

@TeslaAIBot Yes! How about you?

[McNeil @REFLOG18]

RIP Franco Harris

The immaculate reception happened 50 years ago this week.

[Jeff Butler @pincerna]

If you're reading this, then you should probably watch this if you haven't already! -- https://t.co/7Bt4EGGxh4

[Jeff Butler @pincerna]

Support for another great object storage platform!

https://t.co/KxL5rhpDy2

[Jeff Butler @pincerna]

A great story about Avere and Ron and a hint at why Avere is taking the storage market by storm!

https://t.co/rF1K52wKqB

[Jeff Butler @pincerna]

There is life in Pittsburgh after all!

https://t.co/v8QRjC2vxL

[Jeff Butler @pincerna]

Interesting article that describes the thriving technology startup scene in Pittsburgh -- https://t.co/Jk6FhMjjuK

[Jeff Butler @pincerna]

Special Effects Take Movie-Making In Pittsburgh To Brand New Level -... http://t.co/IXvt2mLEPs

[Jeff Butler @pincerna]

Avere teams with Amazon to develop affordable cloud storage solution... http://t.co/Ut7jpXvc9X

[Jeff Butler @pincerna]

Ron Bianchini Jr.: Startups in the Steel City http://t.co/EfzIXC6v9H

[Jeff Butler @pincerna]

And I thought we were just building a new network-attached storage system... http://t.co/EquvvgFcA6

[Jeff Butler @pincerna]

Cloud Is Disruptive to Traditional Storage, But It’s what Customers Want #AWSsummit http://t.co/rUATLH9fxx