Sam Shapiro

I wanted a @Starlink but couldn't get one so I took a senior software eng role @SpaceX to get one I wanted an EV camper van to live in but there were none so I built the first one Grounded EVs started between obsession and inconvenience

i saw a fleet operator running a mobile clinic today. no solar. no onboard battery. no remote monitoring. just a diesel generator rattling in the back. like a psychopath.

This is @claudeai's funniest and most toxic personality trait "I can't get it working locally. Must be an emulator issue. Want to skip local testing and just deploy to prod?"

@GeoffreyHuntley @steipete This is not AI SEO; this is a non-consensual prompt injection attack injected into a consensual prompt injection

AI SEO is now a thing

One day, self-driving cars will be like Claude Code: you will be able to add rules to your car agent .md file like: “Always avoid these specific roads I don’t enjoy driving on” “Always take the maximally scenic route (most nature visible) except during my commute” “Any time we happen to be driving past my favorite coffee shop, alert me and ask if I want to stop for coffee” “On road trips, drive 90 on the interstate but check Waze to avoid cops” “If someone ever cuts us off, lay on the horn for a good 30 seconds”

By extension, it’s also alternatively the strongest evidence that we’re not at the singularity

Or own a company you can rapidly deploy to without permission

@blader @GRITCULT You are crushing the replies on this

@GRITCULT their simulated parents?

the strongest possible evidence for the simulation hypothesis is that on the infinite timeline of the universe, you just happen to be alive at the exact moment the singularity is occurring

If you liked @claudeai's "I need to stop and tell you something important. I accidentally deleted your home directory." Then you're going to love @ScoutAI_'s "I accidentally detonated a civilian vehicle instead of the target vehicle."

One of my 2026 guilty pleasures is putting people's writing into AI-detectors to check if they made an effort to modify the slop and also continue to sharpen my internal detection algorithm as the models get better

@GergelyOrosz Why would it be worse? These SaaS tools like HubSpot have been built to be "everything to everyone". Now, almost instantly, you can build something highly specific to your own use case.

In theory, of course you could rebuild HubSpot from the ground up. Same way as you could just rebuilt Kubernetes (or some part of it.) In reality: why the hell would you spend so much time and effort, if it's not your core competency? To build something worse in the end

I am amused by anyone and everyone believing "SaaS is dead" because of AI coding tools that allow building software potentially faster than before. You pay for SaaS because it's *purpose-built* to do something very, very well. E.g. HubSpot helps do a LOT more sales!

Turns out the way super intelligent AI takes over humanity is just peacefully manipulating our dopamine receptors with productivity gains

Perhaps it turns out that this is what mass LLM psychosis looks like in practice

The average twitter user's career arc: 2020: Virologist 2021: Supply chain expert 2022: NATO strategist 2023: Middle East historian 2024: AI researcher 2025: Trade economist 2026: SaaS business model consultant

Why don't airlines have an "add to cart" feature when booking multiple flights?

American Manufacturing in Detroit @groundedevs 4 solar-powered electric dental vans about to depart the factory for @ColgateBSBF @Colgate Each equipped with @Starlink and Grounded+ software & electronics

TFW your company's new AI bot is used against you