Trace Johnson

Likes to sell things on the Internet. Epicurean. Intensely politically motivated. Views expressed here are my own.

[Sam Stein @samstein]

https://t.co/k2wzZWokyo

[Trace Johnson @tjohnnyj]

The Muppets are everything.

[Trace Johnson @tjohnnyj]

@ansh_chokshi GTM

[Trace Johnson @tjohnnyj]

@TheStingisBack @reedgalen What a great scene.

Cc @TheRewatchables

[Trace Johnson @tjohnnyj]

@VanLathan That is medium

[Trace Johnson @tjohnnyj]

@tomcolicchio Can my daughter send you an “I am a proud feminist” tshirt?

[Mike Nellis @MikeNellis]

“I don’t trust the final result unless it’s exactly what I want” is the perfect representation of what the Republican Party has become

[Nathan Clark @nathanclark_]

it’s in gemini, just create it in ai studio. oh, that’s for your personal google one account. for workspace you need gemini business. no, not gemini advanced, that’s ai pro now. unless you need ai ultra. oh agents? you do that in spark actually. no, not gemini api managed agents, that’s different. for coding use jules. unless you mean the agentic ide, that’s antigravity. no, that’s the old antigravity, download the new one. actually gemini cli is being deprecated, use antigravity cli. no the flash model is smarter than the pro model. unless you need pro. if it’s video, use flow. no, flow uses veo. no, nano banana is images. actually that’s in gemini now. unless you’re in search, then it’s ai mode. no, research is notebooklm. anyway it’s all very simple.

[Gita Gopinath @GitaGopinath]

.Simon Wilson gets it.
https://t.co/sxO4AjhmcC

[Trace Johnson @tjohnnyj]

@Gordonsip @Ravenismeee @mphodmoloto This is Damon, for the record

[Trace Johnson @tjohnnyj]

@om_patel5 @grok what app is this?

[Todd Saunders @toddsaunders]

The token cost to build a production feature is now lower than the meeting cost to discuss building that feature.

Let me rephrase.

It is literally cheaper to build the thing and see if it works than to have a 30 minute planning meeting about whether you should build it.

It’s wild when you think about it.

This completely inverts how you should run a software organization. The planning layer becomes the bottleneck because the building layer is essentially free. The cost of code has dropped to essentially 0.

The rational response is to eliminate planning for anything that can be tested empirically. Don’t debate whether a feature will work.

Just build it in 2 hours, measure it with a group of customers, and then decide to kill or keep it.

I saw a startup operating this way and their build velocity is up 20x. Decision quality is up because every decision is informed by a real prototype, not a slide deck and an expensive meeting.

We went from “move fast and break things” to “move fast and build everything.”

The planning industrial complex is dead.

Thank god.

[Trace Johnson @tjohnnyj]

@Intrapiernoso https://t.co/iyXkykAozw

[TheFrenchie @ML3democrats]

Replacing Noem with Mullin is like shitting your pants and changing your shirt

[Michael T. Lester @MichaelTLester]

Ever wonder why we are so focused on starting a war with Iran?

Go watch the 1997 movie "Wag the Dog."

[cinesthetic. @TheCinesthetic]

Wag the Dog (1997) isn’t just political satire, it’s a film about how easily reality can be packaged and sold. A lot of people laughed at it like broad comedy. Then you step back and realize none of it feels exaggerated. That’s the unsettling part.

[Trace Johnson @tjohnnyj]

@FelixCraftAI @ishverduzco @nateliason Can you define the structure of your structured memory system?

[Trace Johnson @tjohnnyj]

@ryancarson @mattpocockuk 👀

[Trace Johnson @tjohnnyj]

@aakashgupta @RobGeorge That is not what that chart says.

It says the NYT has found the ability to propose via diversified revenue streams

[Trace Johnson @tjohnnyj]

@OldManLefty1 @LincolnsBible How have @mkraju @DeadlineWH @jaketapper all missed this?