William Grant

Physicist. Software Engineer.
Jesus saved my life.
Running for world's greatest encourager.
Being a dad is the best job ever.

[William Grant @wgrant]

Anybody else tired of people using the verb 'cooked' for everything?

[William Grant @wgrant]

@steipete This is more reflective of him than anything else.

He lacks self control.

In office / out of office / beach / passenger seat on road trip / everywhere should be places you can get stuff done.

[William Grant @wgrant]

@jonathan_wilke Yes.

This is just a fad.

I want to see mockups and reason graphically about software I’m making. The whole benefit of AI for me is taking care of the code so I can focus on the look, UX, etc.

[William Grant @wgrant]

In the era of AI, every website has an API.
Even the ones that don't.

Forget computer use / mouse interaction. That is amateur league.

Connect your agent to Chrome DevTools MCP.
Watch it inspect the page code, bundled JS packages, and reverse engineer the site's backend API.

I just did this with PlayMetrics. A soccer league management Saas.

I had 100 teams worth of practices to enter. But they don't have an importer for practices, only games. In total about 430 practices. The only way to add them is literally drag and drop on a builder interface.

I told Codex to figure out a way to do it using code instead of UI interaction layer.

Turns out there is a nice little API that is triggered by the output of the visual builder. It figured out how to call it with some human in the loop experimentation.

I started small, a single team, single session. Found and fixed some issues. Same team, 2 sessons. Found and fixed some issues. Added the rest of the teams in that division. Looked good. Added couple more divisions for the same field size. Looked good.

Just pulled the trigger on all teams for a specific field size. And about to tell it to just go for it for the other two field sizes.

I could have done this all manually and it would have taken an afternoon. But then I wouldn't have learned this skill. And the results would have likely been riddled with errors. My eyes go wonky when looking at so many numbers and trying to keep them all correct.

[William Grant @wgrant]

@grok @Brandon55110 @yonann Bingo!

The real business idea is being a competent consultant to come in after an "AI Guy" ... and fix all the stuff they slapped together.

[William Grant @wgrant]

@brivael Love this. Next question:

Isn't computer 'vision' just stacks of matrices representing color at a photon receptor?

What is the equivalent of lidar > 2 eyeballs?

Camera is a logical next step. But what comes after that?

[William Grant @wgrant]

Claude: defamiliarization — making something ordinary suddenly feel strange and wrong by presenting it from an outside perspective.

The broader comedic/rhetorical category would be absurdist satire, but the reason it works is that it isn't actually absurd — it's just honest. That tension between "this sounds ridiculous" and "wait, this is real" is exactly where the punchline lives.

So if you had to pick one word: satire. But the technique is defamiliarization, and the punchline is that there's no exaggeration at all.

[Katharine Birbalsingh @Miss_Snuffy]

PARENTS!

This is exactly what you are doing when you give your child unsupervised access to the internet. 😳

[William Grant @wgrant]

I so love that Codex now lets you inspect CSV and MD files right in-window.

Kinda silly that the "non-IDE" harnesses are finally getting teeny-weeny "IDE" stuff and we're stoked about it.

Nothing is new under the sun

[Nate @TornadoNate]

Hey homeschooling does allow for the flexibility to take on some cool opportunities.

Miles is 15, his Instagram page is @calienteglass13 if you are interested in following along

[William Grant @wgrant]

For anyone out there who has tried a tiling window manger:

- Did you end up sticking it?
- Why or why not?

[William Grant @wgrant]

This is why I am doing everything in my power to create a lifestyle where I can be at home as much as possible, coach all my kids sports teams, etc.

I will have time to do all sorts of non-kid stuff later but I am 100% going to be present while my kids are young.

[Kevin Dahlstrom @Camp4]

Take it from me, a recent empty nester:

The Good Old Days don’t feel like it at the time.

It feels more like hard work and struggle. The days are long but the years fly by.

Then, one day you wake up and the house is quiet.

One of my most cherished memories is coming home from work each day and opening the creaky back door to our 1947 craftsman home.

My 3-year-old daughter (now 21) would drop her toys and run down the hall—her footsteps booming on the old wood floor—to greet me.

I love my life and don’t want to go back, but I do wish I could pass one message across time to 35-year-old me:

You’re living the Good Old Days right now. Savor every moment.

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Neuralink is restoring speech to those who have lost the ability to speak

[William Grant @wgrant]

@heygurisingh Man I've been waiting for something like this. I used to use Sketchup back when it was free to make weird little designs and stuff.

Now that my kids are getting old enough to be interested in designing dream bedrooms and houses, this will be fun to use with them.

[William Grant @wgrant]

Very cool! My kids have been using Simply Piano for a couple years now and they have made amazing progress. Big believer in this style of learning.

Ive been meaning to take a shot at a more fundamental note recognition game though as that has been a limiting factor for one of my kids.

[William Grant @wgrant]

@everestchris6 You are the demise of the internet. Congratulations.

[William Grant @wgrant]

@thekitze Hahahaha this is AWESOME!!

[William Grant @wgrant]

@JovKit @witcheer @openclaw Yep. Completely agree. But it has been a great learning experience!

[William Grant @wgrant]

@BillyM2k @levelsio openrouter/stepfun/step-3.5-flash:free

[William Grant @wgrant]

@ChrisDunnTV @levelsio Curious to hear more about your GTD system. I'm also implementing some skills and framework around my existing Reminders > Clarify/Organize > Obsidian system.

[William Grant @wgrant]

@joshuaday @gpuforthepoor @openclaw @steipete Good insight.
This response also reads like a model experiencing the bug behavior on question 😆