Jonathan

I am a swing voter and you should be too

Thousands of Starlink satellites woven into a living shield in low-Earth orbit, quietly intercepting, deflecting, and obstructing incoming space debris before it can slam into our atmosphere. We live in sci-fi.

@SawyerMerritt It will be too late — EVs are solved. Autonomy will dominate and Ford is well behind there

Ford CEO in new interview: “We'll have an all-electric, affordable vehicle to compete with Model Y and Model 3. I think there's nothing else like it on the market. We started a skunkworks team 4 years ago. They were basically Formula 1 and Tesla people. That vehicle is radically different. I'm really excited to show everyone maybe late this year or (early) next year. It will be coming out next year.” (via Spike's Car Radio)

@doctorparadox @Jason @markjeffrey @ewarren @AOC @BernieSanders @RoKhanna Why do you think the solution to overspending is more taxation?

@Jason @markjeffrey @ewarren @AOC @BernieSanders @RoKhanna Relax, nobody is coming to confiscate your vacation home or priceless stamp collection. It's much like the property tax I pay on my home, to reflect the land and public services usage I will consume from my local jurisdiction, which needs to pay to provide such things, reliably.

Come to Texas and seize our asssets @ewarren @AOC @BernieSanders @RoKhanna! Will smoke a brisket and be waiting on the porch to welcome you! 🐎

@rp1016 @SawyerMerritt That’s impressive compared to what I’ve received. My flights are usually 2-3mbps with huge latency and jitter. I’m exec platinum to paint a picture of how often I fly.

@whatjonsaid @SawyerMerritt I was getting 40-80mbps. I don’t fly to Hawaii. Most don’t. It works fine for 99% of people. Starlink is a better product sure but if every airline gets it they will start charging for it.

NEWS: American Airlines, the largest airline in the world by passengers carried per year (225 million), is in talk with SpaceX to potentially adopt Starlink - CNBC Competitors such as Southwest Airlines and United Airlines have already announced Starlink adoption. American Airlines has one of the world's largest aircraft fleets with over 1,000 airplanes.

@rp1016 @SawyerMerritt Their WiFi is garbage bandwidth and literally no service over the pacific (Los Angeles to Hawaii)

@SawyerMerritt Honestly their free WiFi works well and people don’t really care about latency on a plane vs it being free.

@SawyerMerritt Finally.

@MuddleTheMiddle @SawyerMerritt Fighting a wealth tax is not necessarily pro-billionaire — it’s elementary-level good policy. Why did so much private and commercial wealth leave CA under his watch?

@whatjonsaid @SawyerMerritt Newsom has fought every CA bill targeting billionaires that progressives have proposed. Show me one actual example where he’s supported “billionaires bad” - come on, just one example! You’re confusing your politicians - you must be thinking of Sen. Warren…

Gavin is acting like the leaders in California didn't have a heavy hand in driving Elon away.... Gavin Newsom on Elon Musk in new interview: "One of the great disappointments. It breaks my heart. I got one of the first Teslas off the line. I've been one of their biggest proponents. It was regulation that created the conditions that allowed him to take the risk to become the multi-billionaire, or trillionaire, that he's become." In May 2020, then-Assemblywoman Lorena Gonzalez posted, “F*ck Elon Musk,” to which Elon replied, “Message received.” Tesla started building their Giga Texas HQ soon after.

@aakashgupta Amazing wingman post for what is certainly a slightly early April fool’s joke

The most profitable seat on a 787 isn't in business class. It's three economy seats with a $40 mattress pad. I've flown the original version on Air New Zealand. United just figured out the math. A Polaris suite takes the footprint of roughly four economy seats. At $4,000 one-way on a transatlantic route, that's $1,000 per seat-equivalent of revenue. A Relax Row takes three economy seats, sells for $3,000 to $5,000 as a unit, and requires zero cabin reconfiguration. That's $1,000 to $1,700 per seat-equivalent with almost no incremental cost. The margins on a mattress pad and adjustable leg rests versus a lie-flat suite with a privacy door, dedicated galley, and premium meal service aren't even comparable. Air New Zealand proved this in 2011. Called it Skycouch. Same seat. Same concept. Fifteen years of booking data showing parents choose flat over reclined at almost any price. United licensed the design and locked North American exclusivity. The timing maps to a ceiling in their premium strategy. United posted $59.1 billion in revenue last year. Premium cabin revenue grew 11% while economy flatlined. But there are only so many rows you can convert to Polaris before you've hollowed out the cabin. At some point you need the 300 economy passengers to fund the aircraft. Relax Row threads that needle. 200 widebody aircraft. Up to 12 sections per plane. 2,400 units fleet-wide on routes where families will pay anything to let a toddler sleep horizontal for 14 hours. Dynamic pricing at American willingness-to-pay levels on a product Air New Zealand sells for $200 to $1,500. Six fare classes on a single widebody now: Basic Economy, Economy, Relax Row, Premium Plus, Polaris, Polaris Studio. Each tier reframes the next as reasonable. They wrapped it in a plushie because "highest-margin seat in commercial aviation" doesn't fit on a boarding pass.

@united April 1 came early. Nicely done

The entire row is alllllll yours. Welcome to United Relax Row, three adjacent United Economy seats with adjustable leg rests that can each be raised or lowered to create a cozy lie-flat space for stretching out... You'll also get a mattress pad, blanket and two pillows. If you’re traveling with kids, a plushie too! United Relax Row will be available starting next year on more than 200 of our 787s and 777s, each with up to 12 of these brand-new rows. united.com/Elevated

I need someone to put an average Joe in a pro game to truly know

@wingedPigBBQ @milan_milanovic Got one for that too: “Hey Claude, I’m noticing my app is slow or doesn’t work when X. Can you investigate”

@whatjonsaid @milan_milanovic No one that doesn’t know software is coming up with that prompt. If you don’t know that one thing what else are you missing

Someone builds a project management tool with Claude Code over a weekend. Ships it. Tweets "just replaced Jira." The app works. One user, happy path, localhost. Then two people edit the same record simultaneously, and the data is silently corrupted. They don't know what an optimistic lock is. They never needed to before. The prototype is maybe 1% of what makes software actually work. The other 99% is what you find after real users show up: race conditions, failed transactions, sessions expiring at the wrong moment, a payment webhook that fires twice and charges someone double. AI didn't cover any of that. It built exactly what you asked for. And the confidence is the worst part. "Just need to adjust a few things before we go live." The few things you need to adjust are the product. That's like laying a foundation and telling people you basically built the house. Vibe coding works. For personal tools, throwaway scripts, and prototypes you'll never put in front of paying users, it's genuinely fast and good enough. I use it. But there's a hard ceiling, and it shows up the moment the stakes get real. Agentic engineering is a different discipline. You're not prompting for code. You're decomposing problems, designing system boundaries, writing specs precise enough that the agent doesn't go sideways. You review everything it builds, because it will make mistakes that only look wrong if you know what correct looks like. You guide it. You catch what it misses. If you don't know what a distributed transaction is, the agent won't save you. It'll generate something broken with complete confidence, and you won't know until production. The hard part of software was never writing the first 200 lines. It never was.

@milan_milanovic Subsequently posts on X: “TIL about optimistic locks with Claude”

@milan_milanovic Got you bro: Hey Claude, we’re seeing by some database locking, resulting in decreased app performance. Can you investigate, create a PR, and add what you found to our internal docs.

Movies are impossible to watch lately because the real world has better writers

Why is Chapstick so edgy when it’s new

Stick handling in hockey is puck judo

A hyper-present and geographically aware tour guide of the future

You can tell someone’s smart by how well they simplify things, not complicate them.

The way in-n-out workers insert and rip the remaining cover off your paper straw right before giving you your shake. The timer starts now motherfucker