Stefan Olson

@Jackalblog @NZNationalParty @nzlabour @NicolaWillisMP It's not govt funded, so that's a big improvement

It's not really a fast-track project if the @NZNationalparty government scrapped it during their first 100 days frenzy just to spite @nzlabour. How much is this flip-flop and delay going to cost us, @NicolaWillisMP? #nzpol newsroom.co.nz/2026/03/25/min…

@_MaccaNZ So pleased to keep you in New Zealand. The students you are teaching are much better off for it! Enjoy your new house!

A year ago I was halfway through the paperwork to move the whole family to Australia 🇦🇺 Life had other plans…and on Friday we’re moving into our first home right here in NZ! 🏡 Excited, nervous, and everything in between 😄

@Interim_Chris @MaryWomble So what do you cut to pay for it?

@stefanolson @MaryWomble Comes from the $350m that comes in via tax every day

Surely it would have been easy to have said public transport is free for everyone until this crisis is over.

What people think minimum wage is: - Helping poor workers earn more - Fighting corporate greed - Basic human decency What minimum wage actually is: - A price floor that creates unemployment - Government forcing you to price out low-skilled workers - Making it illegal to hire someone whose productivity is below $15/hour When Seattle raised minimum wage to $15, teen employment dropped 31% in two years. You didn't help workers—you eliminated their jobs entirely. Every minimum wage hike destroys the bottom rung of the economic ladder that teenagers and unskilled workers need to climb. The irony? Politicians who never ran a business telling entrepreneurs they must pay workers more than they produce. Pure economic illiteracy dressed up as compassion.

I see a new form of tech debt coming for dev teams - Comprehension debt. As more and more code is generated by LLMs, if teams don’t take the time to understand deeply what the generated code is doing, as well as code they write by hand… It’s only a matter of time before the code base starts looking unfamiliar to most of the team. It then becomes harder to discern if new code that LLMs generate is adding more spaghetti or if there’s a better approach. It’s a downward spiral from there - unrelated things break with every change despite existing tests passing, no one knows the full picture to be able to fix the root cause, not even an LLM, etc. So as tempting as it is to move super fast with LLMs, there’s only so much comprehension debt you can rack up before your code base silently becomes a Rube Goldberg machine under your nose.

The Greens: “Debt limits are too restrictive. We should borrow much more.” Also the Greens: “This Govt has ruined the economy and Fitch has downgraded our rating.” They have to pick one.

@amorriscode When can I start a new session in a new window?? please????

if you're bored waiting for claude to finish doing work, start another session. life is too short to be bored.

Radical Tesla FSD Hypothesis: The alarming “speeding” behavior we see from Mar Max and other modes is collecting irrefutable data that exceeding speed limits, even by a lot, when traffic and conditions permit, is PERFECTLY SAFE. It may or may not be intentional, but when the accident rate over billions of miles for Mad Max is no different that that for Sloth and Chill, the debate should be over. Speed limits are stupid.

@EricCrampton Even if you do ration against them, they can afford to buy EVs. Those on low incomes can't afford to do that.

Love that Andreas pulled this up. I was having ... great difficulty ... believing that 'Remuera tractors' were anywhere near large enough a share of the market to matter. But I suppose rationing against them is fine if your objective is to punish people in Remuera or something.

@NewstalkZB Labour’s legacy of hate for business. More to come sadly

@ryanjaycowan I've just ordered a Model Y in NZ. It's due May-June - was April - May on Sunday. Y L also May-June, but massive interest of the Westgate store on Sunday, so I'm sure they are selling plenty.

Model Y L order page now showing June - July for deliveries in Australia 👀 My guess is Tesla already got 2000+ orders for this car.

@x60641148 @MarkHubbard33 I'm 3.53% up on my Milford Kiwisaver but 1.59% down our Milford unit trusts :-( But this is just a blip - keep buying low.

@MarkHubbard33 I'm fisher funds too, im maximum risk maximum growth, I just checked, im 1.08% on last 12 months 🤣. Tragic

#Skiting. With 6 days in financial year left my own share portfolio is beating my FisherFunds 'aggressive' Kiwisaver twelve and a half times :) But a LOT can happen in 6 days right now.

@InARsWeTrustt @AucklandIsland @chrisluxonmp @winstonpeters @dbseymour great idea!

@AucklandIsland @chrisluxonmp @winstonpeters @dbseymour Better idea would be closing have the government ministries down altogether

Attention @chrisluxonmp @winstonpeters @dbseymour Do you think this might be a good idea? Or something else? WFH? Anything? #nzpol

@farmgeek Yes, a much better one

I hope I’m wrong, but this feels to me a bit like the very early days of Covid: Governments have started to respond at different speeds and intensities. Except this time Aotearoa has a very different government at the helm.

@JamesII4824 @daphmc_ @ClintVSmith It's not my government. It's the government and it's not a great one but it's slightly better than the last one. Could be and should be a massive amount better

@stefanolson @daphmc_ @ClintVSmith As would be expected in an economy which is struggling. An economy with much higher unemployment and lower GDP growth. That's without mentioning the massive brain drain heading across the Tasman. There isn't much to say your government is doing a great job.

7% of households (140,000) to get $50 per week. 93% nothing.

@JamesII4824 @daphmc_ @ClintVSmith NZ's current inflation is less than Aussie.

@stefanolson @daphmc_ @ClintVSmith Yeah sure, do you think it was just NZ dealing with an inflation crisis after Covid ? Anyone can cherry pick figures.

@crazy_lekiwi @AucklandIsland Close to 100

@AucklandIsland What’s the expected speed in the slow lane?

I went to the GP today then to the shops. On the way home was nearly rear ended because I was doing 90 in the show lane. I lost count of the cars that whizzed past me. Boy are some people in for a shock 😲

@AucklandIsland She did not do this at all "making all workers lives harder and less rewarding". That's complete rubbish

'I simply want to do more with life.' Well isn't that nice for her, after dumping pay equity for other women and making all workers lives harder and less rewarding. Whoop-de-do for her. 🙄 rnz.co.nz/news/political…

@CARN0N NZ has had nothing for weeks. Orders now from May onwards...

There is ZERO new Model Y inventory across Australia. Last week there was plenty. Probably nothing.