Mr. Parker

Solves things.

[Mr. Parker @sanjayparker]

@BamaSaltyMarine Bro ...

[Mr. Parker @sanjayparker]

@TomWoodstom If you want to save the world in the future from the zombie or alien apocalypse… You can be that hero when you find the right cable to enable 1950s era weaponry. Don't throw your stuff away.

[Mr. Parker @sanjayparker]

@ValueWithPrem @gmail https://t.co/5mKvzoQX5M is used to differentiate from public Gmail addresses/protect from impersonation of employees. Yahoo made this mistake initially, where employees and public email addresses were at https://t.co/Z6hHXqhqHN.

[Mr. Parker @sanjayparker]

@Cybergirl333034 @MartaCecilia36 Actually, pizza arrives at the wrong house and you can't contact the driver anymore lol

[Mr. Parker @sanjayparker]

_ @Meta nearly every single business page we've setup gets this scammy message where I am pretty sure the PDF contains a virus. We always ignore these - this should be easy to stop if not legit (why should we have to report it/take risk)? Use AI to trap this crap before it hits.

[Mr. Parker @sanjayparker]

Artemis II launch!

[Mr. Parker @sanjayparker]

@teslaownersSV More like 14 years since it came out in 2012…

[Dr Milan Milanović @milan_milanovic]

Someone builds a project management tool with Claude Code over a weekend. Ships it. Tweets "just replaced Jira."

The app works. One user, happy path, localhost. Then two people edit the same record simultaneously, and the data is silently corrupted. They don't know what an optimistic lock is. They never needed to before.

The prototype is maybe 1% of what makes software actually work. The other 99% is what you find after real users show up: race conditions, failed transactions, sessions expiring at the wrong moment, a payment webhook that fires twice and charges someone double. AI didn't cover any of that. It built exactly what you asked for.

And the confidence is the worst part. "Just need to adjust a few things before we go live." The few things you need to adjust are the product. That's like laying a foundation and telling people you basically built the house.

Vibe coding works. For personal tools, throwaway scripts, and prototypes you'll never put in front of paying users, it's genuinely fast and good enough. I use it. But there's a hard ceiling, and it shows up the moment the stakes get real.

Agentic engineering is a different discipline. You're not prompting for code. You're decomposing problems, designing system boundaries, writing specs precise enough that the agent doesn't go sideways. You review everything it builds, because it will make mistakes that only look wrong if you know what correct looks like. You guide it. You catch what it misses.

If you don't know what a distributed transaction is, the agent won't save you. It'll generate something broken with complete confidence, and you won't know until production.

The hard part of software was never writing the first 200 lines.

It never was.

[Sanju Choudhary @saaaanjjjuuu]

Turn off these privacy settings in iOS 26 and thank me later.

[Mr. Parker @sanjayparker]

@otokyo Tito

[Peter Girnus 🦅 @gothburz]

The company hired me to lead their "Agile Transformation."
I don't know what Agile means.
Nobody does.
That's why it works.

I make $425,000 a year.
To move sticky notes.
From left to right.
On a board.
The board is digital now.
The sticky notes cost $80,000 in Jira licenses.
Progress.

Day one, I said "we need to break down silos."
Everyone nodded.
Silos are bad.
I don't know why.
But destroying them is a career.
My career.

I introduced "squads."
Squads are teams.
But disrupted.
We disrupted the teams into teams.
Different names.
Same people.
Same problems.
But Agile problems now.
Agile problems are strategic.

A senior engineer asked what we're actually changing.
I said, "The mindset."
He asked what that means.
I said, "It's a journey."
He asked where we're going.
I said, "Toward agility."
He asked what agility means.
I pointed at the sticky notes.
They were moving left to right.
That's velocity.
We have velocity now.

The VP of Engineering said two-week sprints don't fit their work.
I said, "That's waterfall thinking."
Waterfall is bad.
Like silos.
I don't know what waterfall is.
But I know it's bad.
She stopped talking.
Waterfall accusations end conversations.

We had a retrospective.
In the retro, we discussed what went wrong.
Everything went wrong.
We put it on sticky notes.
Then we moved the sticky notes.
Into a column called "Parking Lot."
The Parking Lot is where problems go to die.
It's full.
We don't look at it.
That's agile.

Velocity is up 40%.
I defined velocity.
I also defined the points.
I also defined the stories.
We're crushing it.
At the things I made up.
To measure.
Ourselves.

The CEO asked for ROI.
I showed a chart.
The chart went up.
Charts should go up.
This one did.
I didn't label the Y-axis.
Nobody asked.
Leadership is confidence.

We do standups now.
Every day.
We stand.
For 45 minutes.
Standing is agile.
Sitting is waterfall.
My legs hurt.
But we're transforming.

The transformation is now "Phase 3."
Phase 1 was assessment.
Phase 2 was implementation.
Phase 3 is "continuous improvement."
Continuous means forever.
Forever means job security.
I'm very secure.

My contract was extended.
Three more years.
For "cultural impact."
The culture is confused.
But impacted.

Agile transformation isn't about being agile.
It's about transforming.
Continuously.
Toward more transformation.
The destination is the journey.
The journey is billable.

[Mr. Parker @sanjayparker]

@Aladey https://t.co/8BTjpKAAxq

[Mr. Parker @sanjayparker]

@GuyDealership @BSHathawayLLC Funny story, the year was 2016 and I co-led a few R&D leads at an innovation session at PARC . . . different OEMs and the consensus focus? GPS-based advertising on heads up displays --- $10 off at the restaurant you are driving in front of.

[Mr. Parker @sanjayparker]

@CarBusinessMan @HamelBraden Rather, SEO and AI snippets.

[Mr. Parker @sanjayparker]

@Dearme2_ Genetics

[Mr. Parker @sanjayparker]

@CarBusinessMan Absolutely. We do cost consulting for dealerships and what's really eye-opening is when that service writer gives $100 goodwill credit to a customer ... you're gonna have to push about $3500 in metal to recover that profit. #RevenueEquivalents

[Mr. Parker @sanjayparker]

@girdley We used llama for this project… Similar ask as yours. https://t.co/EYYl2Ibb0B

[Rivelino @alpharivelino]

Anything can happen when you leave the house well dressed

[m. @theonlymiyam]

One thing I realized is that everything always works out. Sometimes even better than you can imagine.