Jan Pytela

@LeoAKoerner Worth to mention that you can take a family of four to 2 modest vacations for the inflation adjusted price of a concorde ticket

We used to be able to fly from New York to London in under 3 hours. Now we get excited about being allowed to buy three consecutive seats and receiving a polyester blanket. A McKinsey profit-optimization seat arrangement is not innovation.

@spectralbrand @sc_cath thanks for an AI slop response-exactly on point

This is the specification gap made visible. Frictions were proxy specifications – costly signals that encoded "I meant this." AI removes the cost but not the need for the specification. The answer isn't restoring friction. It's making the specification explicit so it doesn't need friction to be credible.

AI slop is going to be very expensive because many subtle parts of economic and social systems are organized around small frictions that allow people to convey meaningful signals by overcoming them. You read letters because someone thought them worth the time to write. AI removes these frictions. It will render many social norms totally ineffective and will saturate many important channels of communication.

lmao

@Brandon93Smith I was not prepared for this level of wholesome when i opened x dot com the everything app today!

You can just enjoy watching others get their wins. Some guy my age will sell his company for $7 million next week. Some guy my age will celebrate 6 months of sobriety, and his first job that pays $25 an hour next week. I’m happy for both of these guys.

The 34yo dad spending a morning out with his wife and toddler thinks he’s the luckiest guy in the world. The 34yo guy who hung out until 2am last night with a Zoomer thinks he’s the luckiest in the world. The 34yo guy who lives in the country, hunts/fishes whenever he wants, and has an 90k truck thinks he’s the luckiest guy in the world. They’re all correct.

“It organizes your files” “It prioritizes your emails” “It tells you insights about your calendar” These are not real things. They are not making you more productive. It is making you an idiot Yes, AI is great. But this is fake productivity. This is dumb. You are being dumb

@bakochuk @buccocapital if you buy snowflake you aren’t “ripping out SAP”. You just refuse to buy their sub-par Data offering, as an add-on, while they literally get to charge you more for your existing subscription due to “Enterprise Database Licenses”

@buccocapital Is it more ripping out SAP to an AI friendly data warehouse like snowflake where claude can more easily expand upon?

I would be so so so curious to meet the guy willing to put his career on the line by ripping out SAP to replace it with Claude I would also like to know if this is a public company so I can short it

@idarbek @tunahorse21 There are loads of factory assembly lines running off a random Windows NT machine taped up to the back of them everywhere in the world

@tunahorse21 tech in this and adjacent sectors is notoriously horrendous

the amount of consultants that have come in & tried to tackle manufacturing like a regular tech project is insane like bro, we are moving hundreds of pallets a day, a delivery loader doesn't have time to fill out a ai form, he has to ship NOW, or the entire day is screwed

@floinkus @zanehengsperger "the person writing the code must be deeply entrenched in the factory operations and nuances of the workflows" "Also, instead of going to that person at SaaS Company, why don't you let Claude vibe code your MES after spending a week on the shop floor"

@zanehengsperger "also i really dont know why you would buy any off the shelf manufacturing software" you can totally derive a competitive advantage from making your own software, but it needs to become a first-class investment of time for y'all. otherwise it'll just be a headache.

this weekend i learned something extremely important about writing software for manufacturing the person writing the code must be deeply entrenched in the factory operations and nuances of the workflows also i really dont know why you would buy any off the shelf manufacturing software anymore when you can custom build your own with all the nuance and with your own data and train your own models

@absurdtrader Me to spis prekvapuje vzhledem k typickemu ohozu mnohych prazskych podnikatelu co jsou typicka klientela, tj. polotricko koupene v Milane v devadesatkach, ze ktereho uz trochu leze pupek...

Jsem prisel vcera do jedny italsky restaurace a zeptal se jestli maji k dispozici stul. Cisnik se me zeptal jestli jsem si nespletl misto, ze vedle je ta ctyrka, ze lidi si to casto pletou. Asi budu muset udelat nejaky tendr na stylistu ci co...

@dilanesper I know some people who pay for these seats with their own money and they usually a) plan at least one michelin star restaurant visit at their destination b) either have 1-2 drinks or don’t drink at all to avoid jet lag They are old so they care about sleep/seat comfort

Since I have the travel bloggers mad at me, I might as well go all the way. Their broad claim is that in flight service is a super important distinguishing factor that drives purchasing decisions and hundreds of millions of dollars in purchasing revenue. It's not true.

@cermak Nezapominal bych na to, ze i ten Easy Jet s extra legroom je pohodlnejsi nez armadni Casa (uz jenom tim, ze je to Jet a ne Turboprop)

Je to takový pokorný a mile lidský způsob, jak reagovat na kritiku. Nevysvětlíte, proč se moc nehodilo cestovat jinak než armádním letadlem (a ty důvody můžou existovat, a spousta lidí by je přijala), ale rovnou to označíte za "pokusy udělat kauzu". A jestli se lidi od pana Vystrčila ptali Armády, jestli je to v pohodě ho tam hodit, tak to určitě v pohodě je. Na to se můžeme spolehnout. ODS zjevně pracuje na tom, aby opozice poslední vysokou ústavní funkci při nejbližší příležitosti vyklidila dalšímu dezolátovi. Pro zajímavost, přehled přímých letů i s průměrnými cenami při nákupu letenky den předem. Ptal jsem se Perplexity, a "ujistila mě", že to je v pořádku.

@capybaroness Succession had some elite texting

crazier to me is that you STILL see movies and tv shows with no understanding of what smartphones and screens really look like. people texting their best friends with no chat history, tapping the screen once to pause a youtube video, phone screen staying on when in a call....

@buccocapital SAP figured out years ago that if you replaced their shit CRM with SFDC, they can just charge you for every sales record you post into your ERP. Some UK company who tried ignoring this lost a settlement of ~50M to them . Going to be fun since the Agent is not responsible

I was talking with someone at a startup building “the agentic layer” who was excitedly telling me about how their agents would seamlessly navigate/extract/aggregate data from a customer’s various SORs I just stopped him and was like “Why do you think these SORs would let you do that?” He didn’t have a good answer. He was just like “but it’s the customer’s data they can do what they want!” Lotta people about to learn the hard way how the Enterprise works

@GergelyOrosz I especially hate those that will let you opt out of marketing messages at sign up, and then a couple months later start spamming you with no option to turn it off (hello all e-commerce and delivery apps)

I don’t have notifications on for many apps: it’s only for the very few that never abuse them. Some marketing or growth hacking person at Revolut has now achieved me turning off all Revolut notifications, after sending what I consider spam. Non actionable, just plain junk.

@weblog20 Nevim jak moc je odlisne legalni prostredi, ale americke betting apps podle ruznych reportu podobne modely vyuzivaji hojne. Primarne teda aby zavislakum pridelili "concierge", co je budou podporovat v hazeni penez do kanalu, a vydelavajici sazkare naopak zablokovali :D

Ještě, že máme tak společensky odpovědné firmy, které se snaží zabránit hazardnímu hraní. 🙏 ➡️ Ve skutečnosti ideální nástroj na eliminaci sázkových podvodů nebo skupin, které mají lepší schopnosti určovat správné kurzy než sázkovky.😀

@staysaasy I like the comment on the background / motivations, but don't understand how it translates to the conclusion of vomiting the NASDAQ? I would argue that these types of "self aware finance bros" are the JPMorgan analysts and similar, who try to point out which stocks aren't shit.

My punch line on how hedge fund / asset management bros think about tech is below. To sum it up, I think that some people in tech think that finance people are dumb and *bad* at analysis, when they're actually very self-aware and *not even really attempting* to do certain types of analysis. Most finance bros have built exactly enough software to be maximally dangerous. They've probably built really complex Excel spreadsheets, maybe with a bunch of janky macros, and probably taken an intro to programming class. They have built several programs and 0 products. This gives them enough familiarity with coding principles to have moderate-strength *emotional reactions* to different technologies. E.g. "Claude Code is magical," or "that business seems like it's just a SQL table." They also generally know that they're not experts. Your average finance bro almost always had a fraternity brother who was studying computer science and visibly spent a lot more time studying. They know intellectually that the rabbit hole of technology goes deep. Your average finance bro in 2026 is also no longer a total meathead. They're generally pretty smart people. Maybe not 150 IQ savants, but not dumb. You can throw a complicated logical argument at them and they'll follow the whole thing. They aren't idiots and it's their job to know what they don't know. But those emotional reactions persist. Finally – you've gotta remember that these are not the most risk-seeking people on the planet. The crazy risk-takers are the traders at Jane Street, etc. who are throwing down big positions based on mental math; you don't usually get to YOLO millions of dollars of other people's money. Some dude making a decision to buy or sell a stock probably ended up in that profession because he didn't want to work as hard as a doctor or engineer, was more interested in business than a lawyer, went to a fancy college, and wanted to make a lot of money. It's a pretty risk averse personality type at a macro scale. Also, for many types of funds, you can just... not trade. You can just sit there for a while, and when interests rates are up a bit (like today), you'll still make some $. It certainly beats losing it. So what happens when there's a big technology shift from AI? Brad and Chad look at it and think: * These AI products look really cool, and I am genuinely impressed * Software is kinda hard to build, so this feels like a Big Change (tm) * I don't think I fully understand what the long-term impact is going to be, and I know that other people probably do, and information asymmetry in a zero sum game is scary to me * I really don't want to lose my job. I want to keep getting paid, and I want to party in the West Village, and I want to rent a house in the Hamptons this summer, and blowing up my portfolio will jeopardize that * So I think I'm just not gonna own or trade anything that looks like it might be in the blast radius of this AI thing, until I figure out what's really going on. I'd rather miss a 20% gain than risk a 98% loss Main thing to notice – at no point did the decision calculus go into some deep analysis of the structural defensibility of ServiceNow in the face of rapidly increasing model power and agentic coding harnesses. Your median finance bro doesn't need to go that deep in order to do their job at a level that serves their interests. They just need to see "Woah, new and very different, seems scary, sell" and suddenly everyone is dumping Atlassian stock.

@ChrisCroy @dilanesper There are alternative apps based on haggling and I think Uber tests the feature in some markets as well! I would still feel more comfortable with the haggling app, than haggling on the street as an obvious foreigner.

@dilanesper I recall a tweet about how Uber drivers somewhere - I want to say Egypt? - immediately message you after accepting your fare and tell you what the actual, higher fare will be.

Critics of Uber don't understand how useful it is when visiting foreign countries. Taxi drivers used to rip off foreigners who had problems communicating in the local language. Uber sets the fare before you get in the cab.

@ryxcommar The desktop app is horrible but on iOS it is the only music app that doesn’t go nuts when you briefly lose cell coverage

tried to impress a woke girl by switching to apple music (she doesn't use spotify for woke reasons). the UX for apple music is so awful that I think I need to switch back. I can't believe the company that made Apple Music is worth 4 trillion dollars.

@paulg Oh my lord I can’t find a reply written by a human in this thread

One way Timex made their watches cheap was to cut the retail markup in half. Jewelers resisted, so they sold their watches off racks in drugstores.

@ajlamesa Public transport in Belgrade was already free. Was there a couple years ago and it was literally impossible to buy a ticket. Card terminals inside trams didn't work, bus drivers would just vawe you in, nights were officially free to prevent drunk driving...

This is a damning discussion of the first year of "free public transport" in Belgrade, Serbia, published in Vreme, a respected news magazine. When riders complain about unreliable service, Belgrade officials apparently respond that passengers aren't entitled to criticize something they don't pay for: "...now the city government has an 'argument' against those who criticize, embodied in an openly brazen narrative that there can be no complaints about what is free." According to the report: 1) Ridership has not increased. 2) Service has not measurably improved in terms of frequency, reliability, or vehicle comfort. 3) Traffic has not declined. 4) Accountability and oversight of public transport spending have decreased. A prominent public transport trade union president: "Free transportation is an absolutely populist measure..." A prominent traffic engineer and politician: "[Free public transport is] just a populist measure with the aim of making Belgraders happy that Belgrade is the only big city in Europe with free transport."