Robb Aley Allan

I just can't wait for the de-Trumpification of America.

@WhiteHouse Disgraceful. Un-American. Contemptible tripe from partisan lowbrows.

TWO KINGS. 👑

I am looking forward to the nude statue of the Winged Ivanka on the top. apple.news/AEHI5NKr2SYyNw…

Misses the point. It's not "answering" emails that matters: it's filtering the important ones from the junk, building action lists by summarizing long texts into short one-line reminders, etc. that makes AI beneficial. I just finished writing a code base to do just this, and each morning I can simply ask for the important tasks without picking through the overnight mess of 30-50 messages by hand.

I don't understand this idea that "AI" can "answer your emails." I sent more than 200,000 emails during the fifteen years I ran a business (and probably 150K more sent when I was a lawyer). Each one required my personal input, tacit knowledge that simply cannot be reduced to an algorithm, involving the balancing of hundreds or thousands of pieces of information internal to me. If I allowed "AI" access to every written piece of data about my business and my prior correspondence, it would not cover 10% of the necessary information to respond correctly to emails, much less the relative weightings and interactions of each of those pieces of data. Whose emails is "AI" supposed to answer? The new "AI" customer response bots are worse than the old ones. Seriously, what emails are we talking about?

People were once executed for blasphemy. Now they just call themselves "MAGA".

@tmuxvim Been there. It's a thing. It's also fixable. Human guidance matters.

i have a theory that all the people complaining about Claude getting worse actually just vibe-coded themselves a massive ball of slop without paying any attention to architecture and they gradually start noticing poor Claude struggling with it more and more

@JoannaStern Write your own with Claude. I did.

Is there a great Mac email client? Like an actual great one where I won't find myself going back to Gmail web four days later.

@RonDeSantis You should read a newspaper once in a while.

Why aren’t Dems calling for his resignation from Congress?

Very well written essay on the MAGA voter. This is what we are up against. Sam is 61 years old and lives in a town where the Applebee’s closed in 2014 and people still mention it like it was a natural disaster. The old factory shut down years ago, but Sam keeps his faded employee badge in a kitchen drawer because he considers it proof that America peaked sometime around 1987, right between the release of Top Gun and the invention of low-flow toilets. He firmly believes the country began collapsing the moment they stopped letting people smoke in restaurants and started putting kale in things. He wakes up every morning at 5:12 a.m., not because he has anywhere to be, but because decades of shift work, untreated sleep apnea, and permanent low-grade outrage have hardwired his body into a permanent state of agitation. He shuffles into the kitchen wearing camouflage pajama pants and a T-shirt that says “I Stand for the Flag” even though he has not stood up quickly without groaning since 2009. He pours himself coffee strong enough to power farm equipment and settles into his recliner to begin his daily ritual of becoming personally offended by things happening hundreds or thousands of miles away. Within half an hour, he is enraged about crime in Chicago, drag queens in Seattle, wind turbines in California, and a college professor in Vermont he has never heard of and never will again. Sam spends most of his time marinating in an ecosystem of Facebook memes, talk radio, Fox News, chain emails, YouTube clips, and badly designed websites with names like Patriot Eagle Freedom Truth News. By noon, he has shared seven posts warning that America is under attack by socialists, immigrants, vegans, pronouns, electric stoves, and people who use the phrase “lived experience.” He believes every story because every story confirms what he already feels: that the country has been stolen from people like him and handed over to people he does not understand. Sam is absolutely convinced he is one of the last remaining “real Americans,” despite living in a county entirely populated by people who also think they are the last remaining real Americans. He misses the America of his youth, which in his memory was a magical place where every man had a factory job, every woman made tuna casserole, every child respected authority, and nobody had tattoos, gluten allergies, or opinions about gender. He is nostalgic for a version of the country that mostly exists as a combination of old pickup truck commercials, Toby Keith songs, and stories his grandfather exaggerated after three beers. His truck is the size of a military vehicle and has never once carried anything heavier than mulch and emotional baggage. His pickup truck is so large that small birds alter their migration patterns to avoid it. The truck has never hauled lumber, gravel, or equipment, but it does haul an enormous amount of political anxiety. The back is covered in bumper stickers warning that he is armed, angry, and deeply suspicious of the federal government, except for when it comes to Medicare, Social Security, highways, farm subsidies, police funding, veterans’ benefits, and keeping its hands off his lawn. He likes to tell people he is “not political,” which is impressive considering his entire personality has become an endless loop of cable news grievances. He cannot attend a barbecue, church picnic, football game, or grandchild’s birthday party without eventually bringing up inflation, Hunter Biden, gas stoves, “the border,” or how nobody can say Merry Christmas anymore even though literally everyone still says Merry Christmas. Then Trump arrived, descending from his golden escalator like a casino-themed prophet sent by God to sell steaks and grievance. Sam had finally found his perfect candidate: a billionaire from Manhattan with multiple mansions, gold-plated bathrooms, and a private jet, who somehow convinced Sam that he understood the pain of a man screaming at the self-checkout machine in Walmart. Trump was loud, angry, theatrical, and constantly under investigation, which only made Sam admire him more. Every lawsuit, scandal, or indictment was not evidence of wrongdoing. It was proof that Trump was fighting the deep state, the media, the elites, the globalists, the FBI, the Democrats, the RINOs, and possibly the ghost of George Soros. Every scandal, every lawsuit, every indictment, every accusation became proof that Trump was fighting the corrupt establishment on behalf of “real Americans” like Sam. At this point, Sam does not support Trump because of policy details. He supports Trump because Trump has become the human embodiment of his anger, nostalgia, confusion, and Facebook feed. Trump says the world Sam remembers can come back, that the people Sam dislikes can be punished, and that all of Sam's frustrations are someone else’s fault. To Sam, Trump is no longer just a politician. He is a lifestyle brand. He is a martyr, a warrior, a stand-up comedian, a victim, a patriot, and the lead singer of a traveling grievance festival. Sam owns at least three Trump hats, two Trump flags, a Trump coffee mug, a “Never Surrender” T-shirt, and a giant “Let’s Go Brandon” sign in the garage that he insists is “not political, just funny.” For Sam, that is not politics. That is therapy. Trump is not just a candidate anymore; he is an emotional support billionaire. He is a spray-tanned security blanket with a private jet. He is the gold-plated, fast-food-fueled mascot Sam clings to whenever the modern world feels confusing, threatening, or insufficiently patriotic. Trump gives him a ready-made explanation for every disappointment in his life: it is not aging, bad luck, economic change, or his own choices; it is the immigrants, the liberals, the media, the globalists, the vegans, the people with pronouns, and whoever is ruining Christmas this week. Supporting Trump lets Sam believe there is still someone out there fighting for him.

@Bridgetteangel7 @arenella1 Still have the best food tho. Enjoy your nuggets.

@arenella1 As much as I loathe trump, I despise the republican party even more for allowing this monstrosity of a human to proceed down that escalator and into the drivers seat of our destruction. They chose him as the best representation of us.

Last night, one of my friends who works for an intelligence service in France, called me to vent about Trump. To sum up his observations: 1] European leaders expected a shit show because of their insider knowledge about all of Trump's flaws. But, Trump's willingness to start a

@Grimpler9 @arenella1 And that is why America voted for Trump.

@arenella1 A war we cannot win? We have already won.

@TheNextAlan @arenella1 That's why more people are leaving America than coming. Thank you for your attention to this matter.

@arenella1 Cope. Trump won a landslide. He's doing exactly what he said he would do. His voters are happy. Congress didn't dare to challenge him for doing it. Elections have consequences.

What an overgrown brat. apple.news/A_pD5tKD3Sd6iU…

@Acyn Not for the best FOR TRUMP, perhaps. But in the long run, perhaps the best for the future.

Jackson: We've got to be careful because we share our intelligence with them and we arm them and share our weapon systems with them and at some point we have to rethink that because things are rapidly changing in Europe and not for the best.

@claudeai’s tendency to lose all your Code and Cowork sessions after a restart is, well, maddening. For a company making billions a year from advanced coding, someone should ask Claude Code to fix…Claude Code.

Thoughts on the New Coding Paradigm open.substack.com/pub/robbaleyal…

@petemuntean I remembering covering STS-3. The sound pounded in my chest and shook the car I was standing on. Fantastic.

The sound alone made a space geek out of me! 🚀 Here’s one unedited minute of the Artemis II launch from our setup on the press mound. My first time covering a launch from Kennedy Space Center… and I’m not sure I could’ve picked a better one. Thanks to everyone who watched!

@davidonchainx Just like IBM, Oracle, etc.

What if Anthropic's plan to profitability is: > Launch Claude Code > Make it easy for people who can't code to build apps > Everyone loves it > Ship new features every week > Every new feature burns through more credits > Users hit their credit limits faster > Soon their entire business runs on Claude > Then raise prices a lot > Everyone forced to pay otherwise their business dies > They can't leave because they don't know how to code > Anthropic revenue increases by 10x overnight They're not selling an AI tool They're selling a dependency Genius

@BachmannRudi You are missing the point. He isn't "building something super risky for society" alone. He is one of many, and is trying to do so with more responsibility than ANY of the others. That is the point.

I really don’t get this! Guy is saying openly that he is building something super risky for society and he expects more public awareness of it? The sensible public reaction would have been to outlaw or at least regulate what he is doing. We are no longer a functioning society.