𝑇𝑜𝑛𝑦 𝐺𝑟𝑢𝑒

Dad and Coder.
OpenAI, Waymo, Dbx, Msft.
Likes working on artificial brains, robots, and 3d graphics.

[𝑇𝑜𝑛𝑦 𝐺𝑟𝑢𝑒 @rappintonyg]

@jamesacowling @jamesacowling

well of course you get those emails, after all you're

More cracked than the screen of my iphone,
10x the coder of your avg course 6 grad,
A greater ninja than Master Splinter,
More of a rockstar than Bon Jovi,
And you make Gandalf look like a third class mage.

[𝑇𝑜𝑛𝑦 𝐺𝑟𝑢𝑒 @rappintonyg]

I need a new pharmacy. @cvspharmacy seems on a mission to figure out how slowly one can process a customer. Approaching 15 minutes with no line progress. And this isn’t that abnormal. The mobile stuff is also a joke.

[𝑇𝑜𝑛𝑦 𝐺𝑟𝑢𝑒 @rappintonyg]

It blows my mind that github offers emoji respones to and +1 isn't one of them. If they intend for thumbs up to be that, it makes me feel angry everytime. I do NOT like this bug.

[𝑇𝑜𝑛𝑦 𝐺𝑟𝑢𝑒 @rappintonyg]

If in the coming years we don’t bring high bandwidth connectivity to everyone, a larger divide than ever is going to grow.

[𝑇𝑜𝑛𝑦 𝐺𝑟𝑢𝑒 @rappintonyg]

All the software engineers who have an ideas list with items a decade old they haven’t gotten to are going to have a wild year.

[𝑇𝑜𝑛𝑦 𝐺𝑟𝑢𝑒 @rappintonyg]

Outage going on 14 hours now. I continue to get msgs “maybe your power is back, actually no”. I looked up the history in 15 months, we’ve had 76 hours of downtime so far. @PGE_BayArea how so bad?

[𝑇𝑜𝑛𝑦 𝐺𝑟𝑢𝑒 @rappintonyg]

PG&E incompetence is truly unrivaled. I’ve gotten three messages that my power is back. The first two took me to a map that shows my power still out. Third shows my power back, but in fact it’s still out. All the while they could just see if they can talk to their smart meter.

[𝑇𝑜𝑛𝑦 𝐺𝑟𝑢𝑒 @rappintonyg]

Getting into a car that ferries you with smooth silence other than low fi vibes, the serenity never dies.

[𝑇𝑜𝑛𝑦 𝐺𝑟𝑢𝑒 @rappintonyg]

I'm not sure which nerd snipes me more: sci-fi possibilities within reach or pure rage with how broken something is.

[Ethan Teicher @ethanteicher]

96M miles of @Waymo safety data just dropped

[𝑇𝑜𝑛𝑦 𝐺𝑟𝑢𝑒 @rappintonyg]

If every code search matched query strings against strings wrapped in the code, developers would collectively be saved an insane amount of time.

[𝑇𝑜𝑛𝑦 𝐺𝑟𝑢𝑒 @rappintonyg]

GPT-5 coded up a modern version of my first graphics assignment from 20 years ago. It did in 5 minutes, what took me 8 hours then, and would take my rusty graphics programming self a few hours today. What a time to be alive.

[𝑇𝑜𝑛𝑦 𝐺𝑟𝑢𝑒 @rappintonyg]

Everyday useful ChatGPT Agent Prompt:

‘What outdoor activities near [my city] are happening later this afternoon / tonight that are good for families with young children?’

It took reasoning, computer use, and deep research to finally defeat the enshitification of the internet.

[𝑇𝑜𝑛𝑦 𝐺𝑟𝑢𝑒 @rappintonyg]

https://t.co/gKOMoS2Zzm
Dope. Exciting to see how the safety of robotaxis unlocks areas previously inaccessible to most human drivers (formerly limited to taxis and buses). Makes accessing Market shops and offices convenient; while keeping bikers safe.

[Dmitri Dolgov @dmitri_dolgov]

Very excited and grateful for the opportunity! Looking forward to welcoming our riders to experience a fully autonomous trip down Market soon.

[𝑇𝑜𝑛𝑦 𝐺𝑟𝑢𝑒 @rappintonyg]

@kylemisc Lucky? Or you grew out of puberty?

[𝑇𝑜𝑛𝑦 𝐺𝑟𝑢𝑒 @rappintonyg]

@zeeg My personal thoughts:

No one knows exactly how long the road is, but we're _far_ closer than almost everyone thought we would be 10 years ago.

Incredible capabilities have fallen out of the pursuit of AGI. I greatly underestimated this in 2020. Seems logical to keep pursuing.

[𝑇𝑜𝑛𝑦 𝐺𝑟𝑢𝑒 @rappintonyg]

Tragic airline crash. So many close calls at airports in recent years this seemed inevitable. I always wonder why aviation was such a leader in adopting many technologies but ATC and the civilian <-> military interface is so old fashioned.

[𝑇𝑜𝑛𝑦 𝐺𝑟𝑢𝑒 @rappintonyg]

@kylemisc I have some concrete ideas of pieces:

- [mostly] private social network
- credit/authority assignment and weighting
- AI based fact-checking and logic analysis

Not the most interesting thing to work on right now IMO. Maybe it's third (after ai & 🤖). Hope someone does.

[𝑇𝑜𝑛𝑦 𝐺𝑟𝑢𝑒 @rappintonyg]

@kylemisc No one from what I can tell.

As we long ago chatted over beers, I've continued to have thoughts on this and how to improve the news.

I think you have to overcome the incentives of virality, money, and retribution.

[𝑇𝑜𝑛𝑦 𝐺𝑟𝑢𝑒 @rappintonyg]

In autonomous vehicles and robotics, a trigger of mine is when a commentator dismisses an event as an 'edge case'. If you see something once a year driving, it happens 670,000 times a day across US driving.

That is *not* an edge case.

Never mind something you see once week...