Thomas Shedd

RT @ElliotCohe74430: Tesla FSD just saved two lives on the highway. A man walked straight into traffic in heavy fog/rain at 65+ mph. The…

@unusual_whales The battery cells still don’t solve though, this is just systems …

The US now has the production capacity to supply 100% of its energy-storage systems domestically, per Bloomberg

@TesCalendar1 They literally assemble the seats in a dedicated seat factory in Fremont. Like - lines where the parts for the seats are put together. They don’t just install.

I’ve always found this so funny because I’ve literally worked for a Tier 2 supplier that made seating parts for Tesla. We did the metals, shipped to Tier 1 for foam and possible even seat cover. Tesla didn’t do anything other than design and install. Like… other OEMs.

@lizzadwoskin Based on timing and the person going to a federal contracting company (the exact thing doge was cutting) this person was not really in doge. Just said they were.

SCOOP: Last year we reported extensively on Elon Musk’s desire to break into the data pipes of government to bypass the federal bureaucracy. That approach had major consequences — one of which we reveal today: A DOGE bro allegedly made off with volumes upon volumes of highly sensitive Social Security data - the agency’s “crown jewels” - which he downloaded on a thumb drive and brought over to his new job. Me, @MerylKornfield @FedGirlWaPo report on this unprecedented breach: washingtonpost.com/politics/2026/…

Many things in your post don’t make any sense. SSA - medical records, what? But in addition the person (based on the description and timing in the articles) was never in doge. Why would someone leave to join contracting companies who were all targeted to be cut by doge? Easy to claim being in doge in 2025.

MAJOR BREAKING BOMBSHELL: PUT HIM IN PRISON NOW! A former Elon Musk DOGE engineer admitted he took millions of Americans' Social Security numbers on a thumb drive to his new job. The SSA Inspector General is investigating this now. Let me be clear: This isn't "efficiency." This is the largest theft of American identity data in history. 300 million of us. Names. SSNs. Birthdates. Addresses. Parents' info. Bank details. Medical records. All copied to unsecured cloud servers by Musk's 20-something engineers with zero security clearance. All handed to political operatives hunting "voter fraud." All now walking out the door on USB sticks to private employers. Elon Musk didn't "streamline government." He built a data looting operation. He turned the Social Security Administration—the most sensitive database in America—into his personal Excel spreadsheet for unqualified cronies to download, share, and steal. Where's the data now? Musk won't say. The White House won't say. The SSA still doesn't know what was copied. Your identity. Your retirement. Your medical history. Your family's safety. All compromised by a billionaire who treats your life like a video game save file. This is national security treason. This is 300 million counts of identity theft waiting to happen. And Republicans in Congress? They're blocking every investigation, changing House rules to protect DOGE, and voting down subpoenas. They handed your Social Security number to Elon Musk's interns and called it "government efficiency." Call your reps. Demand criminal prosecution. This is your life they're gambling with.

Important to clarify: The sources of skepticism here are long time career government employees who are trying to retaliate against Elon for Doge. Their teams were directly impacted. They can influence non technical political appointees with incorrect info (as they did here)

@WSJ This isn’t totally true

Exclusive: Federal officials have raised alarm about the safety and reliability of xAI’s Grok chatbot on.wsj.com/3MNroTu

@bendellwerry @JDVance 👀

@BetterCallMedhi This will be huge for government use cases

what Anthropic just announced with Claude code & COBOL modernization is quietly one of the biggest AGI signals we’ve had COBOL still runs the vast majority of global banking & insurance infrastructure, written decades ago by people who are retired or dead in a language almost nobody alive understands anymore & modernizing it isn’t translating old syntax into new syntax these codebases are full of undocumented business logic, edge cases that existed only in the head of some developer in 1974, dependencies nobody ever mapped because the guy who built it just knew… so what Claude Code has to do is read millions of lines of ancient code & figure out what the original developer meant not what he wrote, reconstruct intent from context with incomplete information across a system duct taped for 50 years if you can do that you can reason IBM built an empire on being the only ones who could touch these systems, if an AI does in weeks what their teams bill over years that part of their business model is dead & the evaluation metric here is perfectly binary, either the modernized system runs & not a single transaction breaks or it doesn’t, no subjective benchmarks just does the global financial system keep working yes or no but here’s what nobody is connecting yet ??? if an AI can reverse-engineer the intent of dead programmers across decades of undocumented code in a dead language then what exactly can’t it reverse engineer, proprietary algorithms from bytecode, legacy military systems, abandoned scientific simulations, medical devices running firmware nobody understands anymore…COBOL is just the proof of concept the real product is an AI that reads human intent through the artifacts we leave behind & that changes everything

@zachterrell57 And about 10 software engineers coordinating agents which coordinate other agents.

Post AGI the only two government jobs that will exist are Senior Advisor for Policy and COR

@RobinhoodApp Filter for cash vs invested dollars that % return metric is based on invested dollars not total held in Robinhood.

Drop one idea we should add to the roadmap 👇

@TeslaCharging Finally!!

New Tesla Supercharger: Bridgeport, CA (12 stalls) tesla.com/findus?locatio…

On hiring tech talent into the federal government: did you know that we trust HR professionals (with little to no background in technology) to build list of “qualified” candidates for the technical team to review? We literally empower people without knowledge on a topic to gate keep candidates from people with technical knowledge. And this is done manually. Which slows down the whole process. This is one part of why teams are so afraid to lose anyone that has an inkling of technical skills - the barrier to bringing anyone new in is high, painful, and includes steps that don’t make sense. I’ve been trying to assess TTS ability to hire a single engineer since start of July. Hoping that @skupor ‘s initiative will start to fix this.

@OutofSpecDetail What are the other reasons?

Reason #345 why I don’t tint my windows. ALWAYS dust under the film…

Gov is shutdown but I can still hear the sound of money being spent at warp speed here

@WIRED Wired reached out to GSA about one of the items in this article. Then an official response was provided that directly conflicted with what is reported within. Wired didn’t change their story, printed the false claim anyway. The fake news gets more clicks.

It was a time of unprecedented change, when the world’s most powerful man unleashed the world’s richest one on the world’s most complex institution. Read more stories from federal workers here: wired.com/story/oral-his…

Months after the Department of Government Efficiency's attack on the federal government began, WIRED spoke with more than 200 federal workers in dozens of agencies to learn what happened as DOGE tore through their offices. wired.com/story/oral-his…

To hire software engineers in the federal government (first there is no real title software engineer yet) you literally cannot ask for a minimum number of years of experience.

🚨 WE ARE SO BACK! President Trump and Elon Musk seen shaking hands after speaking at Charlie Kirk’s memorial LET’S GO!!!

@OutofSpecDetail What will your winter setup be

Sheesh 😮‍💨

@zachterrell57 Thank you. We both know the kiwi will be the last one left.

@thomashedd i almost drank that one yesterday but left it for you

exactly as The Founders intended