Brad Shively

Shipped my first iOS app today -- PetPilot. (It's free! No ads. No in-app purchases.) apps.apple.com/tr/app/petpilo… My wife and I have been using a pretty dated pet care tracker app to keep tabs on Pierogi & Pickle being fed, let out to go to the bathroom, etc. (cute dog tax paid below.) The app we were using was overdue for a facelift, and I wanted to optimize for what we cared about (primarily ultra low friction/one click logging for potty trips.) It was a fun learning experience and let me dig into using Claude for a real project that solved an actual problem. I know ~no Swift, so there were some bumps along the way. In particular, I struggled to get the iCloud collaboration/syncing working. In fact, I started this back in July/August and the old Opus model couldn't handle the iCloud parts, and I set the project aside after many attempts. However, Opus 4.5 was able to resolve the issues in 1-2 hours of troubleshooting and experimentation, and after a few more days of refinement, I'm excited to share 1.0. Just a small side project, but if you have pets and housemates and need to coordinate care, maybe you'll find it useful. Appreciate any feedback.

@VicVijayakumar I look forward to the replies about how this makes you the Worst Dad Ever.

old me: it isn’t centrally aligned, I need to get it perfect! new me: it’s not in her face, she’ll be fine

hair by dad this morning

@wagnerAI @hello__caitlin She provided reference images of products and had it place them in the space.

@hello__caitlin What I really wanted to know was, how did she find the furniture that the artificial intelligence created?

Rather than correctly identify that the AI had fucked up the rug, they replicated the fuckup irl by putting down strips of rug….?

@p_millerd Starting in June I'll be renting again (following a cross country move!) Honestly pretty excited about it.

homeowners are so funny. someone will say "I love renting" and the homeowner has to come in and defend their position like they were attacked i just love renting, its so great.

@sa4t__ @__apf__ @dan_ddyo If you think people can read a tweet, you haven't been following this thread very closely lol

@__apf__ @dan_ddyo I get what you're saying but it may not apply here. I think people can read a tweet and know what to expect for these sort of posts.

I asked gemini to give my basement a glow up and then went out and bought all the actual furniture. First is the nano banana mockup; second is the actual room as it looks today; third is the original photo of the room that nano banana was working off of.

@VicVijayakumar Bbq and Mexican makes this so easy.

There’s one obvious choice and no one in their right mind would pick anything else.

@jlcossi @GergelyOrosz The 2025 Google developer report basically said the same thing. AI tools give you more of what you already have. If you’re focused and have clear priorities, it will increase delivery. If you’re scattered and chaotic, it will ratchet up the chaos.

@GergelyOrosz Same at team level. The ones getting real value already had focused work and clear priorities.

The more I use AI tools, the more I have to admit that I'm not that much more productive... I simply FEEL that much more productive. In reality, the context switching of kicking several things off wipes out my perceived productivity gains. At least in many/most cases!

@diegoduarterj @GergelyOrosz Yep. I’ve heard someone say “I’m back in the game”

@bjshively @GergelyOrosz That’s exactly how I feel. Before I couldn’t keep coding while in meetings and discuss, catching up on different projects, and that was most of my time. Context switch was already there. Now I feel I can do that plus coding again, which feels really good to be honest.

@GergelyOrosz But yes, agreed. Some of the agent gymnastics are definitely more for show/because you can. I don't think doing 4 things at once is a better way to work. But having an agent do one thing for you while you're in meetings for a few hours does seem like a win.

@GergelyOrosz The strongest advocates in my userbase are very senior TLMs who are now spending more time in meetings for planning, technical design, etc. They're able to kick off an agent to do 80-90% of some smaller technical task they never would have gotten around to otherwise.

@jackfriks It's been this way for a long time. My wife hates Amazon/won't buy much there because most of it is cheap garbage. I primarily buy specific products from known brands (e.g. electronics, etc.) so it's never bothered me. But buying any kind of generic household item there sucks.

the AI slop is leaking into amazon now and everything has become TEMU quality and it all looks the same... back to shopping local for anything cool

@theTechBee @deathanchor @randomrecruiter Depends on the situation honestly. But whenever a company makes big cuts it is typically done by very senior leadership using only "formal" sources of data, so basically things like previous performance ratings and other metrics (e.g. adherence to RTO can be one.)

@deathanchor @bjshively @randomrecruiter Who is the one who decides who gets fired?

I just heard of multiple companies letting go of employees for coffee badging. They have a requirement for 3 days onsite per week, or 24 hours. Some of these people have been going in and immediately going back home, leaving after lunch, or a little early at 3 or 4. In two cases I heard of the manager approving this, and even doing it themselves. But I guess from a higher level, they dont care, adn they were all let go. If your company has hard RTO mandates, especially if you’re in a more “traditional” industry like banking and financial services, I’d think twice about coffee badging in this environment.

I fed Gemini, Claude, and ChatGPT my tax forms and asked them to estimate what I would owe this year. I exercised a bunch of stock options so this was at least a semi-complex situation. Comparing results to my actual human CPA that I have used for a few years: - Gemini: Very good. Rounded to the nearest hundred, so technically off by $14 - Claude: Very good. Rounded to the nearest thousand, so technically off by $286 - ChatGPT: Terrible, then pretty bad. Initial pass was very, very wrong. Like off by ~$100k or more. On a second later attempt, was off by $24,500.

@adamwathan I've been eyeing these for awhile. We're planning a cross country move soon, so hopefully pick them up after that.

New gym gear day 😮‍💨 getting rid of the rack of fixed cheapo hex dumbbells for these 125lb REP x Pepin adjustables 💪🏻 Saves a bunch of space and much less annoying than trying to get the heavy fixed dumbbells out of the bottom of the rack.

@Shpigford @SuperFanToys

if you can guess what this is a puzzle of, i'll ship it to you for free if/when we put it into production at @SuperFanToys!

@fjzeit Planning to take one (or a few) at 40 🤞

i took one at 30, 40, and 55.

@Shpigford Eh, I've had it do super trivial stuff. Like a Chrome extension for fullsizing video within the browser pane. But yeah, nothing meaningfully complex.

i don't trust anyone who unironically talks about AI one-shotting anything

@thorstenball I also cannot explain my addiction to wanting the newest/best chargers, ha. I have this one. It lives on our kitchen counter and is great for a drop-in place to charge any random device. I also really love the Anker brick that has 3x USB C and 1x USB A. Perfect for hotels, etc

One vice I have that I can't even explain to myself: I love good cables, power adapters, and could (and have!) essentially buy new Anker stuff every two weeks. Something in me tells me that I need this. Look at that display. That knob. I don't need it, it's expensive, ... BUT.

If you use GitHub (especially if you pay for it!!) consider doing this *immediately* Settings -> Privacy -> Disallow GitHub to train their models on your code. GitHub opted *everyone* into training. No matter if you pay for the service (like I do). WTH github.com/settings/copil…

@GergelyOrosz @victor_UWer @hazn_com Also, even GitHub to some extent (though obviously they're much further along..)

@GergelyOrosz @victor_UWer @hazn_com It's been interesting to see these co's go through the cycle of building things for indies/solopreneurs and then realize the real money is in B2B and trying to bolt on the enterprise features. Seeing this with Lovable, Anthropic, and others.

This week, from a CTO at a large tech company, when I asked them about AI tools usage: "We have teams of ~100 evaluate various tools: Claude Code, Codex, Cursor etc. Then we decide where to invest in. We're actually starting to get really bullish on Cursor, again"