Rob the builder

💻 15 year software engineer, 2x startup acquisitions going for a third.

🏎 Amateur driver

[Rob the builder @robdel12]

I know you can't see this, but this is us.

[Janet DeLuca @janet_unseen]

Thank you @robdel12

For my beautiful roses, the two dolphins figurine that is so beautiful! Plus all the other goodies you sent to me. your A son that every mother wishes for.
You made my Mother’s Day the best one I’ve had yet.🤗❤️

[one dozen rats at a keyboard @PanasonicDX4500]

I know it’s become pretty cliche and cringey to talk about at this point but if you’re under like 25 I cannot stress enough how one time Obama wore a tan suit and people spent a week arguing over whether or not it was demeaning to the Oval Office and they were serious about it.

[Rob the builder @robdel12]

@theallengomez That’s EXACTLY what I’m remembering 😭😂 it’s okay, I’m sure I made us run more than enough brickin free throws hahahaha

[Rob the builder @robdel12]

@ElRushboNews Did you miss the part where he just wants to be with his horses? He doesn't want to be the face lmao

[Rob the builder @robdel12]

tl;dr: can't replace domain expertise

[Rob the builder @robdel12]

Models & harnesses have hit their wall.

It's clear (imo) those who are experienced and can leverage the LLM are going to leave those who can't in the dust.

And that gap might actually spread wide because the people that can't use an LLM are going backwards (getting worse)

[Rob the builder @robdel12]

Reminds me of a jr developer eager to burn it down and rewrite everything with each bug they come across. You're not building shit doing that

[Rob the builder @robdel12]

This entire discussion is what is wrong with NASCAR and why its in its current state.

No other sport critically evaluates the product, searching for changes, after each event. Imagine if the *entire NFL fan base + media* did this after each weekend? It'd be garbage league

[Jordan Bianchi @Jordan_Bianchi]

The issue isn't having Sunday night races -- I'm all for it and think it's a good thing to grow the sport, especially during the summer. The problem is that the Nashville race didn't end until after midnight on the east coast and that's a problem.

[Rob the builder @robdel12]

@Kenny_Wallace @dennyhamlin We caution too much. I miss when NASCAR was actually stock car endurance racing. Real bad asses, rippin that thing for 500 miles straight.

Now we through a caution in the race because it freaking rained the night before and the track is 'too green'. That's sad.

[Rob the builder @robdel12]

If there were a diagram of vibe coders and people who trust tesla 'self driving', it'd be one circle.

[TesDrive @TesDrivenAI]

I didn’t buy a Tesla because of

-the environment
-it’s electric
-it’s fast
-it’s cheap
-it’s low maintenance
-the looks
-to flex
-to be trendy

I bought a Tesla because

-it’s the only car in America that can drive itself destination to destination with no intervention on any road!

Literally anyone that tells you otherwise is simply uneducated 🤷‍♂️

[Peter Gostev @petergostev]

BREAKING: Uber engineers now required to earn Claude Code credits by driving Anthropic employees.

[Rob the builder @robdel12]

@MoustacheBarnes

[Rob the builder @robdel12]

@AuthorTCManning @mustang067_pat IMSA, WEC, and all endurance racing orgs would like to have a word. NASCAR used to be endurance stock car racing until they decided to gimmick it up

[Rob the builder @robdel12]

Oh yeah don't forget about that whack comp caution they threw because the track was rained on 😂 we can't have green flag stops!

[Rob the builder @robdel12]

I would agree if it was actually *4* hours of *racing*. The stage gimmicks made it 4 hours, so I agree, they don't need to be that long.

Get rid of stage racing!

[Denny Hamlin @dennyhamlin]

@AlextheAdm1ral 4 hours of racing is too long. 4 hours of anything is too long. Stages are needed for TV.

[Rob the builder @robdel12]

Developer product? CLI
Consumer product? MCP (but cry as you build/maintain/support it)

[Gergely Orosz @GergelyOrosz]

We see that AI amplifies good engineering cultures, and bad.

So it is rational to better the engineering culture at any and all organizations. Good (engineering) middle management is pretty good at doing this.

So why are so many companies gutting middle management, and now?

[Avery Tomasco @averytomascowx]

What. A. Time-lapse.

Here's how that storm that just thwapped Austin materialized and evolved: #atxwx #txwx

[Rob the builder @robdel12]

@tedcruz You hauling ass every time we have a natural disaster isn’t a Texan value either soft hand boy.

[Gergely Orosz @GergelyOrosz]

You cannot make this up: Meta nuked teams like Integrity so bad that services are without oncall coverage 💀

Let me spell it out: it’s more important for Zuck to reassign devs from security/integrity teams to do data labelling than for these teams to have functioning oncalls…