Dave O'Flynn

@stephen_huang @jasonfried @Cadillac Production car, but low volume hand-built to your specs. Think Rolls-Royce.

@jasonfried @Cadillac is this a concept car or production

Seeing a @Cadillac CELESTIQ on the road was quite a surprise. Rare sight! Love it.

@Jeyffre @girdley One way to score well is to have no features, for example. And it would not surprise me if VW's infotainment system was generating a lot of the issues in this survey of 3 year old cars.

@Jeyffre @girdley It includes things from "the carplay connection is unreliable" through "the lane keeping system nags me" to "the wheels fall off". It's a much broader definition of quality/dependability than many folks expect.

Honestly, shocked that BMW is ranked so high. I have three friends who had such lemons that they returned the cars to the dealers within a month. Also, you should defriend anyone who rolls up in a VW.

A magical evening out on Carlingford Lough. Shooting from a moving boat with a tripod isn’t exactly easy but I’m thrilled with how this turned out - the rising moon aligned behind Haulbowline Lighthouse. @barrabest @irishlights @Lovindotie

@jasonlk @edith_h I am also stunned on your behalf.

@edith_h That's how I was raised, too I am stunned

Ok signing off Replit for the day Not a perfect day but a good one. Net net, I rebuilt our core pages and they seem to be working better. Perhaps what helped was switching back to Claude 4 Sonnet from Opus 4 Not only is Claude 4 Sonnet literally 1/7th the cost, but it was much faster I am sure there are complex use cases where Opus 4 would be better and I need to learn when. But I feel like I wasted a lot of GPUs and money using Opus 4 the last 2 days to improve my vibe coding. It was also much slower. I’m staying Team Claude 4 Sonnet until I learn better when to spend 7.5x as much as take 2x as long using Opus 4. Honestly maybe I even have this wrong. The LLM nomenclature is super confusing. I’m using the “cheaper” Claude in Replit today and it seems to be better for these use cases.

@SinoAutoInsight It's one of the biggest pain points for existing Rivian customers. Why wouldn't that be newsworthy?

The velocity of announcements like this needs to increase significantly. Why this type of announcement is even newsworthy is a bit of a headscratcher... #doubletime

@dunne_insights Is that your new villa being built in the background?

Now happening dans les rues de St Tropez.

@nateliason @iloveitaly It depends enormously on your support network, the health of both parents, if the kids have issues, the amount of $$ one can throw at problems etc. For many people it is really really hard. Or they are one problem away from it being really really hard.

@iloveitaly To be fair I’m not saying it’s easy. But every step of the way up to 3 kids now I’ve expected the next transition to be harder than it ended up being. Wife says the same.

I don’t think telling people “fertility is declining” does anything. Better “pronatal communication” is telling people: 1. Having kids is way better than you can possibly imagine. 2. It’s also much easier than you’re imagining.

@jamesbohanpitt @girdley I'm projecting based on lived experience in France, but I'd put good money the pattern is the same. "Omg that chateau is cheaper than a 1 bed apartment in Sydney!" Yes, for a reason :D

@jamesbohanpitt @girdley If you don't need to make a profit (ie don't care about the restaurant), can easily afford the upkeep (roofs + pools + groundskeeping are $$$), don't want to be part of a community (ie visit a few weeks a year and don't care about the local grocery store), then go for it.

Everybody wanna buy a $200k estate in rural Tuscany, but there are reasons it's so cheap.

@colinalewis United are worse. But... that's not exactly a high bar.

For those of you who warble on about British Airways amazing ad campaigns, let’s see what Mike Scott of The Waterboys says. …

@runasand The fancy wingsuit one?

I’ll be in Stockholm in mid-June! Available for consulting, presentations, workshops for journalists and security folks. Also planning on spending some time in the wind tunnel. 🥳

@JoshPurtell @Kazanjy There were also *massive* wealth transfer/subsidies from other EU nations - nearly 250bn euro. This is by design - it's also why Ireland is so well-off now.

@Kazanjy Comparing Polands growth from here on out to the UK’s … trajectory … will also say a great deal about how bad socialism is

Poland's skyrocketed GDP per capita is all you need to know about how bad socialism is. Remove it, human flourishing.

@Kazanjy I mean, I shared it on a Slack for Atlassian alumni.

The secret to engagement is making fun of JIRA.

@kurt The second panel of this strip has been living rent-free in my head for a while... xkcd.com/568/ . I wonder if/how AI will change that.

At this point, my mental model for AI coding agents is that they're roughly on par with a decent junior engineer. We're going to have a huge problem in 10 years when the current crop of senior engineers starts to age out and we don't have anyone to replace them.

@smlpth Ask your friend for the size of "problem" in the IC5 definition. That might settle your nerves somewhat...

A friend at Meta sent me this note on levels & expectations. I feel greatly challenged by the expectation for the senior engineer level where I'm supposed to currently be at.

@DamienToscano @smlpth The IC3 description roughly matches the scope of L3 at Google, fwiw.

@smlpth The hardest part is to know how companies align on their level expectations 😅 I’m IC3 right now but it’s a IC4 at Google

@destraynor @JuergenLabermas @PilatusAircraft Their branding of the -24 as a "Super Versatile Jet" was genius. You can still land more or less anywhere, but you get more room, a cargo door, and more range.

@JuergenLabermas @PilatusAircraft 12 isn’t , 24 is

The product marketing of private jets (in this case @PilatusAircraft) is truly next level. It's aesthetically beautiful, deep in technical detail, and aspirational at every opportunity.

@buildkite 4. Oh, it was me.

The three stages of CI troubleshooting: 1. This should be simple 2. Why is this happening 3. Who wrote this and why do they hate me

@NiallofEast @CaolanSRugby My thoughts exactly.

@CaolanSRugby Only a week too late.

Well I’ll be dammed