Vinny Carpenter

[Vinny Carpenter @vscarpenter]

@claudeai I built PourCraft Coffee completely using Claude Code. App calculates the ideal coffee-to-water ratio for your roast, gives you precise measurements, and guides you step-by-step to a beautiful cup

https://t.co/UeT9yechcv

[Vinny Carpenter @vscarpenter]

I voted for L. HAMILTON as @salesforce #F1DriveroftheDay. Make your vote here: https://t.co/jRD28Z0Y5q https://t.co/4RHMGYskbW

[Vinny Carpenter @vscarpenter]

AI Did Not Configure My Network. It Helped Me Understand It. https://t.co/gy09o43Brv

[Vinny Carpenter @vscarpenter]

Spec, Standards, Specialists: How I Actually Build with AI https://t.co/fXfRi8WxyJ

[Vinny Carpenter @vscarpenter]

Claude Code: build system > chatbot. My script makes Claude learn from Claude. https://t.co/lFELUsTJTk

[Don Salmon @dijoni]

This white supremacist animal goes around the country, terrorizing Black people, and using racist language, and the police and politician let him continue to do it. I guarantee you if he was targeted in Jewish people he would’ve been locked by the justice department for racism and human rights abuse.

[Vinny Carpenter @vscarpenter]

@brian_scanlan @threadreaderapp unroll

[Boris Cherny @bcherny]

Proud to work at Anthropic.

[Peter Girnus 🦅 @gothburz]

Last quarter I rolled out Microsoft Copilot to 4,000 employees.

$30 per seat per month.

$1.4 million annually.

I called it "digital transformation."

The board loved that phrase.

They approved it in eleven minutes.

No one asked what it would actually do.

Including me.

I told everyone it would "10x productivity."

That's not a real number.

But it sounds like one.

HR asked how we'd measure the 10x.

I said we'd "leverage analytics dashboards."

They stopped asking.

Three months later I checked the usage reports.

47 people had opened it.

12 had used it more than once.

One of them was me.

I used it to summarize an email I could have read in 30 seconds.

It took 45 seconds.

Plus the time it took to fix the hallucinations.

But I called it a "pilot success."

Success means the pilot didn't visibly fail.

The CFO asked about ROI.

I showed him a graph.

The graph went up and to the right.

It measured "AI enablement."

I made that metric up.

He nodded approvingly.

We're "AI-enabled" now.

I don't know what that means.

But it's in our investor deck.

A senior developer asked why we didn't use Claude or ChatGPT.

I said we needed "enterprise-grade security."

He asked what that meant.

I said "compliance."

He asked which compliance.

I said "all of them."

He looked skeptical.

I scheduled him for a "career development conversation."

He stopped asking questions.

Microsoft sent a case study team.

They wanted to feature us as a success story.

I told them we "saved 40,000 hours."

I calculated that number by multiplying employees by a number I made up.

They didn't verify it.

They never do.

Now we're on Microsoft's website.

"Global enterprise achieves 40,000 hours of productivity gains with Copilot."

The CEO shared it on LinkedIn.

He got 3,000 likes.

He's never used Copilot.

None of the executives have.

We have an exemption.

"Strategic focus requires minimal digital distraction."

I wrote that policy.

The licenses renew next month.

I'm requesting an expansion.

5,000 more seats.

We haven't used the first 4,000.

But this time we'll "drive adoption."

Adoption means mandatory training.

Training means a 45-minute webinar no one watches.

But completion will be tracked.

Completion is a metric.

Metrics go in dashboards.

Dashboards go in board presentations.

Board presentations get me promoted.

I'll be SVP by Q3.

I still don't know what Copilot does.

But I know what it's for.

It's for showing we're "investing in AI."

Investment means spending.

Spending means commitment.

Commitment means we're serious about the future.

The future is whatever I say it is.

As long as the graph goes up and to the right.

[Reid Hoffman @reidhoffman]

My writing today in the @sfstandard: Too many Silicon Valley leaders have divested themselves of the responsibility to speak out against the Trump administration.

We can’t shrink away and hope the crisis fades.

It’s time for all of us in tech to do and say more.

[Scott MacFarlane @MacFarlaneNews]

Quite a statement from the NBA players union

“Stand in solidarity with the people of Minnesota”

[Fred Guttenberg @fred_guttenberg]

NEVER FORGET THIS PHOTO.

THIS MAN WAS MURDERED BY A CRIMINAL ENTERPRISE CURRENTLY OPERATING OUT OF THE WHITE HOUSE.

[Bill Clinton @BillClinton]

Over the course of a lifetime, we face only a few moments where the decisions we make and the actions we take will shape our history for years to come.  This is one of them.

[Angels Apologist⚾️ @angelsapologist]

I only talk baseball on here. So just want to say this once and move on. If you support Donald Trump and ICE, unfollow and go fuck yourself. You're a fascist piece of shit and history will judge you accordingly.

[Staff Sergeant Gonell, Aquilino @SergeantAqGo]

This is what happens when a felon is elected instead of a prosecutor. A law abiding and lawful gun permit citizen was killed while exercising both his first and second amendment and yet many conservatives, constitutionalists and so called Christian are ok with his rights being violated and his life taken.

[Barack Obama @BarackObama]

The killing of Alex Pretti is a heartbreaking tragedy. It should also be a wake-up call to every American, regardless of party, that many of our core values as a nation are increasingly under assault.

[Joe Walsh @WalshFreedom]

They had him on the ground. Six agents pinned him down. They disarmed him. They removed his gun from its holster. And THEN they shot him. Ten times. To repeat. AFTER they pinned him to the ground, and AFTER they disarmed him, they shot him. Ten times.

They murdered him.

[Collin Slattery @CJSlattery]

I’m probably going to lose followers. I’m probably going to cost myself money.

What’s happening in Minneapolis is fascism. This is literal death of democracy stuff.

Americans are being murdered in the street by the federal government.

If you care more about your tax rate than fascism coming to the US, I don’t know what to say.

I love America. I love what it stood for. Democracy. Rule of law. A country where a kid who had his father die as a child, who had a drug addict mother, who was homeless as a teenager, was able to work his ass off and become a multimillionaire.

It’s going to be so hard to get that back. But we must. Ronald Reagan called America a shining city on a hill.

We aren’t that any longer.

[Bill Madden @maddenifico]

We're used to seeing images like this of Nazi Germany. This is what an execution looks like. It's an image that will haunt America for years to come. Alex Pretti was an ICU Nurse whose life was dedicated to saving lives. Under the fascist authoritarian Trump regime, in the eyes of the world, America has become the monster it used to fight against.

[Jonny G 🇺🇦 @dontforgetchaos]

I make no apology for posting this photo. I think it’s a photo that will haunt America in the years to come.

This is what you have become. If you defend this, have a word with yourself.