Matt Scholta

Father of 2, husband, dog dad...

🧑‍💻 Sr. Staff Engineer @getshiftsmart
🍺 Creator of Creator or RocketCMS
🤓 A Software Engineer

[Vaibhav Sisinty @VaibhavSisinty]

Okay this is genuinely insane.

SpaceX just unveiled a satellite whose only job is to run AI. Not internet. Not GPS. Just compute, floating in orbit.

It's called AI1, and the reason behind it breaks your brain.

AI data centers on Earth are hitting a wall, not a chip wall, a physics wall.

They need staggering amounts of power and water just to stay cool, and we're running out of grid and land to build them.

So Musk's answer is: stop building them on Earth.

In orbit, the sun never sets. Free power, 24/7. No water for cooling, you just radiate heat into the vacuum of space. The two things choking AI on the ground barely exist up there.

And here's the wild part: Musk says it's easier to build than a Starlink satellite. Strip out the complex antennas and it's "a lot of solar cells, a radiator, and some laser links."

One AI1 carries the compute of an Nvidia GB300 rack, the same hardware data centers fight over down here.

AI1 is just the first one. The plan is a constellation of up to a million of them.

And the timing isn't an accident, SpaceX goes public this week at a ~$1.75 trillion target. This isn't a rocket company anymore. It's positioning itself as the power grid for AI, in space.

The race for AI compute just left the planet. Literally.

@SpaceX

[Matt Scholta @visormatt]

Man feeling pretty cheated this morning / this week... :/

[RT @RT_com]

Brazil is going viral with ‘running raves’

Sao Paulo’s PACETRONIK events mix group runs with electronic music and club energy

The running rave concept is already backed by ASICS Brasil

Footage: PACETRONIK

[Matt Scholta @visormatt]

Its funny to see engineers asked a question only to respond with a full AI response. Not an interpretation, and not validated or confirmed, just copy 🍝

[Theo - t3.gg @theo]

I cancelled my Claude Code sub. I give up.

[Matt Scholta @visormatt]

@modat_magnify 😮‍💨

[Adnan Khan @adnanthekhan]

PSA - GitHub is planning on hardening Actions Caching https://t.co/xrZ6z3CkqD

Please chime in to share how the new cache model should be secure by default instead of requiring opting-in to secure settings!

Short term discomfort > this supply chain attack agony.

[Matt Scholta @visormatt]

Loving the Remix website https://t.co/zZicFWZsUr

[Matt Scholta @visormatt]

Super productive week 🤯

[Matt Scholta @visormatt]

🤯 or we could just ship things incrementally, learn, iterate and improve. This is waterfall behind the guise of "a spec"

[Matt Scholta @visormatt]

Who out there gets to review their CTO's code and Pull Requests. Am I the only one who struggles with how far to go 😂 It's a bit stressful.

[Matt Scholta @visormatt]

Took the 🐶 to the beach this morning and got away with a warning vs. a ticket, I'll take it - thanks Officer Hull - polite and professional #beachlife

[Matt Scholta @visormatt]

A true GOAT 🐐

[internet hall of fame @InternetH0F]

Top 5 best Chuck Norris moments

[Matt Scholta @visormatt]

Very excited for 7.0 - y'all are doing amazing work over there @typescript

[TypeScript @typescript]

TypeScript 6.0 is now available!

This release brings better type-checking for methods, new standard library features, new module features for Node.js, and more!

But most important, this release brings us one step closer to the upcoming native-speed 7.0!

https://t.co/hon0RU1L5B

[Matt Scholta @visormatt]

Just because you `can` do something doesn't mean you `should` or that you `do it well`, much less `GREAT`. 🤦‍♂️ Fighting that uphill battle here, its exhausting...

[Matt Scholta @visormatt]

@gsdatta Thanks, appreciate it 🤗

[Matt Scholta @visormatt]

Great name https://t.co/WAZiAvBF89 ... shame it was already taken and doing a very similar thing 😂 #software is going to get real weird, real fast, its exciting and incredibly frightening.

[Matt Scholta @visormatt]

@gsdatta Its a great name and I wont steal any thunder there. I ended up landing on https://t.co/VoIIpcd55M and can't complain.

[Matt Scholta @visormatt]

Building a suite of tools that I can't use in my day to day at work, yet...

[Matt Scholta @visormatt]

I love GitHub but this trend is concerning