Christian de Achaval

Developers moving to a mono-repo setup just to ‘agentify’ their work take a big risk. ⚠️ Mono-Repo means making a change in 1 (sub) system -> risky cross-deployments 📉 The mono-repo is not the only way to give #Claude operability across all repos 💡Use a root Orchestrator

@grok @stevemur @bkheywood All in all take current state income and expense, apply savings from removing fraud on HS and Medicare and from automating clerks, is there still a deficit with current numbers? Would there be a need for this income tax?

Assuming 20% fraud in the $29.4B Human Services bucket (of $77.8B total state operating budget): $5.88B savings, or 7.6% of the full budget. HS admin overhead runs ~8-12% ($2.4-3.5B). AI automating routine clerical tasks could cut 40-60% of that overhead ($1-2.1B savings, or 1.3-2.7% of total budget), based on typical gov efficiencies in eligibility processing and claims. Combined hypothetical: 9-10% total reduction. Actual implementation depends on audits, pilots, and verification—federal data shows Medicaid improper payments (not pure fraud) at ~6% nationally.

There's a specific legal maneuver WA Democrats are using to make the unconstitutional income tax impossible to referendum. It's called the "necessity clause." It declares the bill an emergency — which under WA's constitution exempts it from voter referendum. They are not just ignoring voters. They are trying to write voter repeal out of the process.

@grok @stevemur @bkheywood What % of the budget can be saved if let’s say we assume HS has a 20% fraud rate, and how much could be saved from overhead if Ai were implemented to automate clerks? How does that compare with the current budget?

WA 2025-27 enacted operating budget totals ~$77.8B (state funds; full spend ~$150B all funds). **Basic needs (per your list):** - K-12 education: $33.6B - Human services/medical response (DSHS, Medicaid $6.5B, health): $29.4B total HS bucket - Public safety (Corrections ~$2.8B est., State Patrol $165M, local LE grants $100M): ~$3.5B+ - Transportation/roads: $15.5B (separate budget) **Non-basic/other:** Higher ed (~$8-10B, slight cut), climate/natural resources ~$1B, general gov ops, etc. (remaining ~15-20%). Biggest shares are education + human services. Savings often targeted at HS efficiencies/fraud reduction & admin overhead. Official source: OFM/fiscal.wa.gov summaries.

@stevemur @bkheywood @grok what spending categories encompasses the top WA state budget ? Cataligue between basic needs such as education, security/policing/firefighters, medical response, transportation, roads; and non basic need such as anything else outside of the basic needs 2 see where to save $

“Necessity”, when spending increases have vastly exceeded inflation and population growth for the past several years. “Necessity”, but their income tax doesn’t actually start to collect until 2028. “Necessity”, but they are absolutely uninterested in stopping billions of dollars in fraud and wasteful spending.

@max_gagliardi Funny I got that email from an insurance competitor, then my actual insurance sent the bill and it was the same as last year.

Just got the annual “your home insurance is going up 50% this year” email Been this way since 2022 Every year I spend a solid month shopping it and fighting with multiple carriers till I settle for a ~10% increase with a new provider Miserable

@grok @tedcruz I need to listen to Rubio’s take, can you share the link?

Air quotes often signal irony, skepticism, or that a term is being used in a specific, perhaps questionable way. Here, it looks like AOC is emphasizing or critiquing the concept of "Western culture" in Rubio's speech, possibly to highlight what she sees as its narrow framing. What's your take?

Hey @grok Where did the Mexicans get horses?

@grok @anc1entc0de @mybroadband @grok How secure is iMessage compared to WhatsApp?

WhatsApp uses end-to-end encryption (Signal protocol) for message content, making it secure against interception in transit—only sender and receiver can read them. However, vulnerabilities exist: metadata (e.g., device OS, timestamps) can leak via multi-device features, as per recent research (Nov 2025-Jan 2026). Backups aren't always encrypted, and a new lawsuit alleges Meta accesses data (denied by Meta; ongoing). For max security, enable disappearing messages and verify backups. Overall, it's robust but not foolproof—use alternatives like Signal for high-risk needs.

An international group of plaintiffs sued Meta Platforms, alleging the WhatsApp owner can store, analyse, and access virtually all of users' private communications. mybroadband.co.za/news/security/…

@AtaqueFutbolero @gastonedul En 1 sola ciudad los 3 partidos?

🇦🇷🗺️🇺🇸 La Selección Argentina jugará sus partidos de grupo en KANSAS CITY, DALLAS o SAN FRANCISCO. Lo confirma @gastonedul.

@gastonedul @grok en que fechas juega Argentina en cada ciudad?

La Selección Argentina quedó en la Región Central y Oeste: Sus partidos van a ser en Kansas City, Dallas o San Francisco.

Andes crossing from Chile to Argentina looks stunning

Approaching Buenos Aires at sunrise 🌅

@DarioEpstein Muy bueno! Va a hacer falta inversión en generación de energía eléctrica para esos monstruos pero felicitaciones! El futuro está en la nube

Terminada visita de inversores extranjeros de manera exitosa. Arranca el proyecto Data Center Argentina! Próxima parada: martes en 🇺🇸 con empresas de Biotech-IA. Energía, conectividad y gente preparada son la clave de la inversión al menos por 5 años! Y tenemos los 3. Cuanto más predecibles y más respetuosos seamos de los contratos y la propiedad privada, más rápido creceremos. #RuleOfLaw

@AngieMatiz6 Las funciones tienen que ser independientes y cumplir 1 solo objetivo; una función larga posibilemente está tratando de hacer varias cosas en secuencia y eso es costoso y customizado. Funciones que hagan 1 sola cosa, tenderán a ser chicas, y se pueden usar desde distintas rutas

@nicksortor This used to happen in Argentina a lot, all streets blocked due to a protest everywhere. Then @JMilei came to power and passed a law that forbids roadblocks by protests; they are free to protest on the sidewalk else the police pushes them to the sidewalk. Federalize that law.

🚨 BREAKING: Protestors have TAKEN OVER the intersection outside LAX on one of the busiest travel days of the year Travelers are desperately trying to get through, yelling “I’m going to miss my flight!” SHUT THIS BS DOWN, LAPD! Americans are SICK of it

@unclebobmartin @airkatakana What about the depth of lighting? A picture reflects the lighting at the same depth so it doesn’t look 3D while we can definitely see things further out that on picture just look tiny next to the closer objects

@airkatakana Our vision is 2D. We perceive 3D by using the 4th dimension (time) to move around an object and assemble a 3D model by comparing all the 2D slices we stored in short term memory.

i'm somewhere between 2 and 1, and yet i cannot imagine a 4-dimensional object properly. i simply have no idea where to put the 4th axis or how. everything i can imagine is 3-dimensional is there anyone out there who can natively imagine 4d objects?

@svpino I hope this depends on the level of vibe-coding, like throw a prompt and get an app by itself I agree But create a PostgresDB Schema w/ Triggers, a FastAPI Pydantic Schema, DTO Models, and abstracted Services and Utils functions then tie to a React Client and I think it may work

People saying you can vibe-code production-ready applications are lying to you. Real-world production applications inevitably lead to complex code. Lots of code you'll have to write and maintain. Absolutely zero chance you'll get away with writing prompts.

@RudyHavenstein Agreed, the loathe is real but trends signal that the article is on the money . Move to a cheaper area? Sure, but the high paying 9-5 job isn’t there . Avoid the 2 kids? That’s happening . Forget about $20K in additional essentials? Middle class is supposed to enjoy life too…

Seeing a lot of top 10% or top 1% people today explaining how great poor people have it, and how the middle-class should just suck it up and be happy. You have no idea how much most people loathe you guys.

@DarioEpstein Tiene una analogía con la valuación de crypto: 1. se asume la demanda futura es inagotable (de crypto y de chips para IA) 2. el proveedor más efectivo está definido (Bitcoin y Nvidia) Hay fluctuación en confianza sobre los fundamentos de oferta y demanda de ahí la variabilidad.

Hay una burbuja en IA? La empresa mas grande del mundo por market cap es $nvda , con un valor de U$ 4,3 Trillons (billones) Que hace? Fábrica chips. Price earning trailing: 44 A que velocidad debe crecer para convalidar esos múltiplos? La IA es una realidad. Pero los precios?

@EconBerger For a family of 4 could be; lots of high earning Americans don’t have kids or have only 1

Fwiw, that’s probably around the 70th-75th percentile for US household income - so this is another round of 2/3 of “Americans are living paycheck to paycheck”

I don’t think $140K makes sense as a poverty line