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Michael Sepulveda retweeted
I got to spend 30, 40 years writing code, mostly video games, and I'm just really grateful for that experience. What a dream.
I loved every little piece of it.
The bugs you'd fight with for days. Going to bed thinking about code and waking up with the answer (sometimes).
That feeling when something you crafted and agonized over finally just works. And doing it next to artists, testers, audio/musicians, animators, producers, designers and programmers, shaping these experiences together.
Now, in less than a couple of years, it's mostly AI writing the code, and it's bittersweet.
Looking back, that was a golden era, kind of a golden opportunity in the whole history of humankind, to program these things by hand. I don't think it comes back.
But I also think the next 30 or 40 years are going to be incredible for how these things get created and shaped.
So, grateful for the opportunity. A little sad. Very excited.
Claude Opus 5.5 is a beast. I've been pointing it at older projects and telling it to revamp them (UI/UX, but also architecture) and it just does it, usually in one shot. Claude has always been slower for me versus other models, but now I don't mind because it just gets so much right in the first turn. It's mind-blowing.
Also, people aren't exaggerating when raving about its motion graphics capabilities. By far, the most impressive model in the last several months, particularly for creative work.
Anthropic really cooked with this one!
If pack assembly constraints (mentioned by Tesla in Q2 as a "worldwide" issue) have held through Q3, then a low delivery number is more a reflection of production bottlenecks than a demand issue, particularly if Tesla is emptying out showrooms. No cars on hand to sell.
Michael Sepulveda retweeted
Steve Jobs would fire the entire company and replace them with AI if he was alive to see this
Michael Sepulveda retweeted
I swore I wouldn’t feed this thing.
Four hours of men who have never built anything diagnosing the one man who has.
They call him miserable. They call him chaotic. They call him hard to work with.
Good.
The future is not a group project. It does not require your comfort. It requires someone willing to carry the weight while the rest of you sit, talk, and film the strain.
He is happy. He is strong. He is moving the species. You are moving your mouths.
That is the whole film. That is the whole complaint.
Now starve it.
Michael Sepulveda retweeted
I’m with Maye! Elon is extraordinary and (I know you’ve heard this) I love working for him (coming up on my 24th year doing so). I don’t love being around miserable people. Elon isn’t one of them.
This is weird @THR “Someone who worked closely with Elon told me, ‘He’s the most miserable man I’ve ever met.’ I haven’t seen him miserable, but that’s just me. His mom.
Michael Sepulveda retweeted
Alex Gibney is obviously going to make the most convincingly terrible hit piece on me that he can possibly think of.
He’s a douchebag to his core and, in his own words, incredibly biased against me.
Between 2020 and 2024, director Alex Gibney made 12 donations to Democrats, including Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.
Here’s a brief sampling of Gibney’s words on @elonmusk:
April 4, 2022: “Mine would be: Musk ownership might be the nudge i need to quit twitter.”
April 14, 2022: “Like Elon’s ‘free market.’ Definitely not free and unaffordably expensive.”
September 20, 2022: Recommended a Polestar over a Tesla, adding “Bonus: when you buy one you are not giving your money to Elon Musk.”
When a director hates and despises the subject they are covering, you will never get a fair and balanced documentary.
I would be interested in a documentary about the person building rockets, autonomous cars, robots, a brain-computer interface, and tunnels who occasionally became a trillionaire — but the director’s clear bias makes this a predictable hit piece not rooted in truth.
Michael Sepulveda retweeted
This is why we defunded you, @NPR.
Virus researchers — who are familiar with lab accidents and how research on coronaviruses is conducted — say there is virtually zero chance that the novel coronavirus was released as result of a lab accident, despite misinformation being circulated.
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Michael Sepulveda retweeted
The Economist had 90 minutes with an individual shaping the future of our country and the world.
This interview is a clear example of how trust in legacy media is broken. People want the opportunity to learn more about one another—not more division and polarization.
When given the chance to ask about giving the blind a chance to see, advancing humanity through space travel, or providing the disabled the ability to drive a car, the reporter chose clickbait questions meant to drive engagement rather than understand her subject.
Elon did an excellent job answering her questions and explaining his core values while making her look like a fool.
The world’s richest man sits down with The Economist economist.com/business/2026/…
Michael Sepulveda retweeted
ELON MUSK: "Zero people died because of DOGE"
“USAID was a political organization. USAID funding was not stopped; it was moved to the State Department. There were claims that healthcare programs were shut down, but these claims are false. When funding is stopped for fraudulent organizations, do you think they’re going to say, ‘Please keep funding the fraud,’ or come up with a sympathetic story to get the funding restored? Obviously, it will be the latter. The amount of funding we’re talking about is far less than what could be supported by private foundations like the Gates Foundation or MacKenzie Bezos’s foundation. They have tens of billions of dollars and are capable of acting very quickly. If they didn’t, I would say they’re equally responsible. Zero people died because of DOGE. Zero.”
Michael Sepulveda retweeted
This would go so hard
🤖 Made with AI
The fact the most iconic structure at LAX is both abandoned and unlit is an embarrassment.
You’re not making the best first impression on our summer visitors, @MayorOfLA
