Shireesh Thanneru

Software Engineer

[Shireesh Thanneru @thanneru]

It’s quite shocking that very few people (like far less than 1%) know that @Tesla is the only self-driving car that one can buy.

[DHH @dhh]

@andrehendrik I'm thrilled to see that Waymo is rolling out, but Tesla has given me FSD in a car I actually own. And can use in all of North America. Quite something different from Waymo's city rollout. I appreciate both but have more use for Elon's breakthrough.

[Colin @colin_gladman]

It’s weird, and I never thought I’d say this.

I’m at the point now where I genuinely think my car can drive me places better, faster, and safer, than I can.

Truly a remarkable product.

@Tesla @elonmusk

[Uncle Bob Martin @unclebobmartin]

As little as five years ago, I publicly stated that self driving cars were not in the imminent future. I was dead wrong about that. I am now a happy owner of a cyber truck, and I let it drive me everywhere I go. I trust it’s tactical skill more than I trust my own. Of course I still supervise it, but it sees more than I do, and its reaction time is much better. All I can offer it is my human ability to be far more strategic than it is.

[Shireesh Thanneru @thanneru]

@hamids Why do you have NM for Intel?

[Prof @TheProfInvestor]

Most Irrelevant thing in trading is giving too much levy to after hours price.

I heard too much noise about $SOFI

And then there is $SOFI in regular hours

Retail spends too much energy in proving their point.
all they have to do is wait for market open and hear it from the price.

Something I spent too much time in early days looking at after hours price action.

[Steve Jurvetson @FutureJurvetson]

That’s my X in the photo… and for some nostalgia, I have compiled some reviews from the watershed 2012 Model S release… They still give me goosebumps today. Rarely does a new product get these accolades as a first reaction:

"One-hundred years from now, the Smithsonian museum at our nation's capitol will host a display of history's most revolutionary automobiles. Most certainly included, among the dozen or so other pioneering automobiles, will be a 2012 Tesla Model S." — Autoblog

"The Model S isn't just the most important car of the year. It's the most important car America has made in an entire lifetime." — Road & Track

“The mere fact the Tesla Model S exists at all is a testament to innovation and entrepreneurship, the very qualities that once made the American automobile industry the largest, richest, and most powerful in the world. That the 11 judges unanimously voted the first vehicle designed from the wheels up by a fledgling automaker the MotorTrend Car of the Year should be cause for celebration. America can still make things. Great things.” — MotorTrend

“We have been testing cars at Consumer Reports for a very long time, but we have never seen anything quite like the Tesla Model S. This car performs better than anything we have ever tested before. Let me repeat that. Not just the best electric car, but the best car. It does just about everything really, really well.” — Consumer Reports

“The Model S feels and drives like the future. It’s a rolling testament to the potential of automotive innovation, and a massive leap forward” — WIRED

“The Model S could become the Model T of an approaching petroleum-free era.” — NYT

"What is the bottom line on the Tesla Model S? It's an eye-opener like the automotive world has never seen in its entire history." — The Street

“The Model S changed the way the world thinks not only about electric cars but also about cars in general. It remains clear there isn't another vehicle created during our 70 years of existence that has had a truly comparable effect on automobiles, the automotive industry, and society at large.” — MotorTrend

[Shireesh Thanneru @thanneru]

@DavidMPontes $TSLA

[Andrej Karpathy @karpathy]

The first 100% autonomous coast-to-coast drive on Tesla FSD V14.2! 2 days 20 hours, 2732 miles, zero interventions.

This one is special because the coast-to-coast drive was a major goal for the autopilot team from the start. A lot of hours were spent in marathon clip review sessions late into the night looking over interventions as we attempted legs of the drive over time - triaging, categorizing, planning out all the projects to close the gap and bring the number of interventions to zero.

Amazing to see the system actually get there and huge congrats to the team!

[Jim Fan @DrJimFan]

I was very late to own a Tesla but among the earliest to try out FSD v14. It's perhaps the first time I experience an AI that passes the Physical Turing Test: after a long day at work, you press a button, lay back, and couldn't tell if a neural net or a human drove you home.

Despite knowing exactly how robot learning works, I still find it magical watching the steering wheel turn by itself.

First it feels surreal, next it becomes routine. Then, like the smartphone, taking it away actively hurts. This is how humanity gets rewired and glued to god-like technologies.

[Shireesh Thanneru @thanneru]

@NickSchmidt @TedHZhang 🤣🤣

[Ming @tslaming]

Mustafa Suleyman, CEO of Microsoft AI, described Tesla CEO @elonmusk as a “BULLDOZER” capable of achieving the seemingly impossible—during a recent Bloomberg interview 🔥

“He’s kind of got superhuman capabilities to bend reality to his will and has, you know, pretty incredible track record. And somehow he sort of mostly manages to pull off what appears to be impossible.” 🎯

[Shireesh Thanneru @thanneru]

And it begins 🔥🔥

[Sawyer Merritt @SawyerMerritt]

BREAKING: Tesla Model Y Robotaxi with literally no one in the car spotted driving itself on public roads in Austin, Texas!

A new age has begun 🤖

[Shireesh Thanneru @thanneru]

This is probably the first time we heard a positive story about @tesla FSD in mainstream media

[Sawyer Merritt @SawyerMerritt]

Review of @Tesla FSD (Supervised) in the WSJ:

"Driving has always felt like a chore to me. The first time I let the vehicle (Model Y) take control, something shifted. As the car guided itself through traffic, I felt tension melt away. A few days before the federal EV tax credit expired in September, I traded in my 7.5 year-old Model 3 for a Model Y with FSD.

For someone like me, who likes to stay in control, surrender has never come easily. Yet here I was, cruising through traffic in quiet surrender to the car’s code and sensors. It felt like liberation. And now I have something better than a chauffeur. My car never tires, panics or wavers; it doesn’t jolt at brake lights or grumble at traffic jams. It simply drives, with quiet confidence and near-perfect composure.

People often worry that technology makes us lazy. Maybe it does. But in my case, it has done something subtler: It taught me to trust in the rhythm of the ride. It’s a small miracle I never expected from a car."

[Shireesh Thanneru @thanneru]

@TheEEInvestor @DanBTC916 What strike and date CC did you sell?

[Gavin Baker @GavinSBaker]

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