Alan Williams

@alanwill Just checked the site, I guess a little back ordered now, showing April 20th - 27th delivery if you order today. But not as long as you're seeing.

Nothing to see here 👀 🦞

@morganlinton I tried ordering yesterday…16-18 week delivery time on apple. None available at Costco. Seems back ordered to me.

@alanwill Well, they aren't back ordered for months, I ordered these like a week and a half ago. I think they were back ordered a coupe of months ago when OpenClaw first burst onto the scene.

@thomaspaulmann @wesbos It recently seems to be fixed but it was in the past then came back. If it comes back share your hourly rate and let’s fix this stat

@wesbos I would join X and fix that damn issue that refreshes the timeline while you read a post and then never ever find that post again!!!!!!1111!1!1!1!1!!!1!11!1!

what is a bug where you would join the company, fix it and immediately quit?

#1 rule of selling to developers: - be honest, like overly pedantically honest like a real engineer - be real that's it. that's all you have to do.

@nanobeep Right!? They’re probably still running somewhere I’m sure

@alanwill Oh yeah, those Solaris boxes were rock solid.

Remember back when you could last an entire week without rebooting your laptop? 🤯I now reboot about once a quarter or whenever Apple releases a point release and even those are optional. My machine feels like those Solaris boxes with an uptime of years 😜

Had a friend tell me once: "When you're feeling overwhelmed, there are only two things you should do... get organized and get to work. The rest is just noise. Peace is found in progress." Some of the best advice I've ever received.

stop spending money on Claude Code. Chipotle's support bot is free:

This is how you get dumber btw, true even before AI. Turn on DnD, put your phone in a drawer. The best option if you can is to separate work + personal devices so your work device can't even see personal stuff. This is also partially why Pomodoro was all the rage a decade+ ago.

@morganlinton @denisyarats Feels like the more natural, less wonky approach

The cofounder and CTO of Perplexity, @denisyarats just said internally at Perplexity they’re moving away from MCPs and instead using APIs and CLIs 👀

@ChrisMack_ @AravSrinivas OK, so I wasn't going crazy because I could swear it was initially the 11th, then last night I saw 13th and now 18th...tl;dr 2026 🙄

@AravSrinivas Looks like the Comet Browser for iOS was delayed a week? It was expected to come out today

And here I was thinking a Chuckit was efficient

Real Luxuries in Life 1. Living 10 minutes from work 2. Living 5 minutes from the gym 3. Having quiet neighbors 4. Having money left at the end of the month and investing it 5. Peace at home 6. Drinking coffee without rushing 7. Sleeping with a clear conscience 8. Laughing with people who truly get you 9. Traveling often for vacations 10. Waking up naturally without an alarm 11. Enjoying a home-cooked meal with loved ones 12. Having time to read a book in one sitting 13. Finding joy in simple daily routines 14. Having a pet that greets you happily at the door These are the things that actually feel rich.

Introducing the Google Workspace CLI: github.com/googleworkspac… - built for humans and agents. Google Drive, Gmail, Calendar, and every Workspace API. 40+ agent skills included.

There are different ways to deal with problems.

@ranman I have to disagree. My 2021 model definitely works more often than not and that’s AI3. AI4 is even better but safe to say 1 out of 20 drives it might do something awkwardly weird and I have to intervene

Hello, this does not currently work. So they're not the only vehicle that do this... because they don't. No vehicles do this. This is a lie. This is false advertising. One day it might work and that will be dope. Don't buy a Tesla just because it might work one day though.

I’m in love with this sentence: “The degree to which a person can grow is directly proportional to the amount of truth he can accept about himself without running away.”

@leerob True. There’s so much noise out there and it’s easy to take it as signal when it’s amplified. I now prefer using the models and tools myself and coming up with my own opinions which are often opposed of the hype

Why does it feel like new models get incredibly hyped at their launch, but then a few weeks later, they're now "trash"? I've been thinking about this a lot and many things can be true at the same time. I'll give you my most optimistic & pessimistic takes. Let's start positive. When new models come out, especially those that are state of the art (SOTA), they are genuinely incredible to try and use. Things that the prior generation of models sucked at... new models sometimes completely solve/fix! This can feel like a massive unlock for building software, knowledge work, research, data analysis, etc. One new model we've been testing is incredibly good at making accurate SQL queries, seemingly better than any other model we've tried. This is exciting! And it makes sense people then share those opinions here. Okay, more pessimistic. For better or for worse, people are incentivized to share colorful takes on pretty much anything. Some of these folks are relying on those X creator payouts for side cash. The views literally convert to dollars! This can create... tension. It's hard to tell when a take is honest and genuine, versus sensationalized for Elon bucks. (Side note: the "paid partnership" labels on tweets are a step in the right direction, although I don't think they really solve this inherent issue with creator payouts, as it's not a direct payment from company → creator) So there's lots of hype when new models drop. We see benchmarks where numbers usually go up and to the right, but it's hard to tell if that actually translates to better performance on the things we care about. The only way to really know is to try it, tinker, build things... but that takes time to do correctly, which is why the best takes on models are often a little delayed while people really "taste test" them. There's another angle here that makes it hard to understand hype/hate, which is that these models all have their own personalities/style/quirks. One person might love the verbosity and warmth of a model, while someone else completely hates it. At least for coding, it does seem like Codex/Opus/etc are converging to a similar style, but they are definitely still different (and people feel strongly about those differences!). So people use the latest frontier models for weeks to a month, but then you notice that the tides may turn online. Opus was the best model in the world, and now people think it's dumb/slow/bad. Rinse and repeat for Codex or other models. It's helpful to remember that most people are busy happily building/shipping at this point! Sometimes this feeling of model degradation is due to an actual issue! Maybe there was an inference bug, or provider downtime, or small updates/tweaks. The model checkpoints can change. However I would argue this is not the majority case. The best explanation for this, to me, is "hedonic adaptation". You quickly can get used to an improvement, so that what previously felt amazing and innovative now feels like your new baseline. Then it's no longer new/sexy. This is just how our brains are wired and not really specific to AI models. The best way to combat it is to be aware of your own biases. So... what should you do to make sense of all the takes on this site? 1. Try to read lots of opinions, not just official posts, but those from a variety of people using the models for things *you're interested in* 2. Listen and take note of opinions, but make sure you're forming your own opinions based on your usage/tinkering/experimentation 3. Remember to be skeptical of sensationalized posts about new models (it's so over / we're so back cycle)

@morganlinton I’m guessing this use case is more because you can and not necessarily because Computer can or would replace something like Cursor or Claude Code right? …or am I missing something?

Thanks for reading and if you have any questions, suggestions, etc. comment below and let your voice be heard!

On Thursday I used Perplexity Computer to one-shot a system that could run the small workflow for an investment fund - we came up with the name Thesium(.)finance. The image below is the Core Idea I came up with. As an engineer, I wanted to dive into the code. So here's my analysis of the code that Perplexity Computer created in the one-shot. A one-shotted Python code thread 🧵