John Brennan

@andrewbrown Yes please

Anyone want to test our Claude Code Essentials course in the ExamPro Platform in Early Access? Like this tweet, so I can pick a couple of folks (make sure your DMs are open). This is just to help us spot any obvious gaffs in the materials.

@adrianweckler Add in another $185 billion of CapEx yesterday in Google’s results.

Amazon says it will spend $200bn on capex in 2026. Ireland’s entire annual national budget is $152bn.

@mc203t @FrankmcnallyIT It’s been going on for many years. I did it in back in 2007 in my hillwalking gear. A lot more runners now by the looks of it. It’s a fair old slog.

@FrankmcnallyIT When did this event start?

The annual mass escape from Dublin Castle, commemorating a real jailbreak in 1592 by Red Hugh O’Donnell & the O’Neill Brothers. Competitors will cover 62km through the night, across the mountains to Glenmalure Valley. That’s if they make it, unlike Art O’Neill. He died en route.

@adrianweckler Fake Indeed Recruiter. Getting at least twice per week recently.

Are you seeing a surge in +44 scam calls lately? If so, what ‘services’ are they pretending to be?

@GergelyOrosz @readwise

What I am hearing: several of Big Tech are squeezing their dev contractors /agencies to cut fixed contract costs by 20-30%, telling them their costs are down/efficiency is up by this much thanks to AI. Where the data comes from: companies like Accenture stating just this:

@Nick_Delehanty unroll @threadreaderapp

Slumdog Asylum Millionaire. 🚨 🚨 🚨 How does an Indian man living in asylum accommodation get awarded millions in State Contracts? How is he able to finance the purchase of hotels & mansions? while also owing €150k+ in judgments to Revenue! ..🧵

@celticman10 @thejournal_ie Considering that Jan 6th had occurred just a month earlier, there may have been an expectation for Biden to respond decisively at the time.

@jvbrennan @thejournal_ie Ah right thanks well I understand why Biden did that then but Biden isn’t the security risk that Trump is

Donald Trump has revoked his predecessor Joe Biden's security clearance in a blizzard of new orders, while escalating his campaign to dismantle the agency charged with helping the world's poorest and extending American influence around the globe. jrnl.ie/6617331

@celticman10 @thejournal_ie Biden revoked Trump’s access to intelligence briefings in 2021. Here’s an article providing more context: nytimes.com/2021/02/05/us/…

@thejournal_ie Whatever you think of Biden he never treated Trump like this even when he could have Trump has no class or diplomatic gravitas he’s a spiteful old man abusing his position in this instance but we all know why

@daniel_mac8 @svpino I’m guessing it’s because Cursor is a fork of Microsoft VS Code.

@svpino wait I'm confused, what does this have to do with Cursor?

Microsoft is trying to block Cursor! WTF! This is retarded and will backfire badly!

@arpit20adlakha @MSFTCopilot Wrong Copilot shown here. You are showing M365 Copilot which is integrated into Office, Outlook etc. but think you meant to show GitHub Copilot?

10. Copilot / @MSFTCopilot Developed by GitHub in collaboration with OpenAI, Copilot is an AI-powered code completion tool that assists developers by suggesting code snippets and entire functions within the code editor. 🔗 microsoft.com/en-us/microsof…

Software Engineering will change drastically in the next 5 years Here are the top AI Coding platforms you should start using:

@wilsong333 @svpino You can also use it in @thankscline which is an open source developer agent extension for VS code.

@svpino Can you use DeekSeek in cursor too, using API key?

DeepSeek R1 is *the* best model available right now. It's at the level of o1, but you can use it for free, and it's much faster. A huge leap forward that nobody saw coming. No wonder so many people are throwing tantrums online trying to discredit the Chinese students who built this. You can use DeepSeek in Visual Studio Code right now: 1. Install the Qodo Gen AI extension 2. Select DeepSeek R1 from their list of models The Qodo team is hosting DeepSeek on their servers, so none of your data will go to China. I've been building a Tetris game using DeepSeek, and this is the most impressive model I've seen so far.

@Dave_DotNet Yes on my list of things to try also. The big advantage I see with tools like Cursor and GH Copilot is the integration with the IDE which reduces the amount of upfront effort in setting up the context to frame the problem you are trying to solve.

@jvbrennan I've not tried it yet John, but will give it a go. Want to try cursor as well, but I think that's slightly different tool, it gets confusing sometimes with all the different options.

Anyone else regularly paste #dotnet code which ChatGPT gives you into Google Gemini as a form of double checking or just me? 🤦🏻‍♂️

@CARRAUNTOOHIL1 Beautiful shots Brian.

December 28th, #Carrauntoohil

@adrianweckler @JoeBLynam There’s still a lot to be said for being able to walk into a branch if you do have an issue.

@JoeBLynam 5 years ago, no. Today, I find it hard to get to talk to anyone from my main Irish bank. So it’s less of a factor now (though still an issue, as you say)

Revolut passes 3m Irish customers to become country’s most-used bank. Its next big target is mortgages, it says m.independent.ie/business/techn…

@AdrianKavanagh * Great share even

@AdrianKavanagh Very share Adrian. Great to be able to see the data coming in from different areas.

Sinn Féin's Nicole Ryan doing OK so far in the early Cork North-West tallies, but the early pace there is being set by Aindrias Moynihan, Michael Creed and John Paul O'Shea #GE24 #GeneralElection24 Excellent live tally feed for Cork constituencies here: irelandelections.com

@kencurtin Thanks Ken. Will be keeping an eye on your updates today. Good to see you back on Twitter for #GE24

@jvbrennan Mallow gaa

Eager cross part tally team here at #Mallow itching to get started on tallies. #GE24

@CARRAUNTOOHIL1 Only spotted this reply now Brian. Thanks very much. You’re some man for making the trek up Carrauntoohil so frequently. Always enjoy seeing your posts from the top.

@jvbrennan Saw your photos too, cracking photos. Perfect conditions 👌 😀

October 31st, #Carrauntoohil