
American ๐ driver | Independent Contractor for @driveusx| I am ANTI PARTISAN so donโt tangle me in that BS! | also Anti-ATA!! @atutruckers all the way!
Iowa, USA
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If I had to guess, itโs because thatโs how they interpret your need for an app. Whether it be a PWA, or a straight web app, I had read somewhere that Claude defaults to React under the hood, so youโre going to get a React UI with a Node backend.
Iโm still learning the nuances of agentic development, but Iโm going to *try* to redo my business app in Rust with a Java backend, so that I can eventually develop a desktop client as well..
Never seen vibe coders use Java.
Never seen vibe coders use C++.
Never seen vibe coders use Go.
Never seen vibe coders use Rust.
Never seen vibe coders use C#.
Every vibe-coded backend somehow ends up being:
Node.js + Next.js + TypeScript.
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Watching RAW since I messed it last night due to fatigue..
After watching Crown Jewel, JeโVon and Penta were probably the most unlikely on my bingo card to win the Tag Championships..
But Iโm ABSOLUTELY here for it!!
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Birthday dinner: Subway in the back of a freightliner..
But honestly.. for several years now, itโs just another day to me..
But god.. 48โฆ Iโm almost old by age standards..
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The more and more I dive into @claudeai and @claude_code via my audio books, the more and more I realize that devs arenโt going to be obsolete anytime soon.
Leveraging AI via the right tools (at least these from what I know so far) makes a developer what he was truly meant to be.
A problem solver.
Ever since I graduated from my React bootcamp, Iโve always lived by the mantra that coding is NOT syntax. Itโs NOT memorization of design patterns.
Itโs being able to recognize areas that code can be improved, and coming up with creative ways to solve it.
Lets the bots do the heavy lifting. You become what we were always meant to be: creative.
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Welp, the Florida Curse continues..
All the way down to Orlando, drop at CVS, and of course, NO SERVICEABLE EMPTIES!! 5 of them.. all of them 6 months or older out of DOT. One of them reported at 2024 since its last one.. reported them all to USX.. its in gods hands now..
Soooo I get to go into JAX.. FML I canโt stand that city, but of course we have a terminal there.. 295 isnโt bad, I can get in and around and outta there as quick as possible.. but getting off 95 or 295 to go inside the perimeter? I hate itโฆ
Get the empty, had a 2 month old DOT.. good to go.. almost.. tire off the bead.. so I get to spend ANOTHER hour at the terminal in our inspection line getting it fixed.
Turns out the guy that did the DOT didnโt reconnect the air flow from the tank (auto inflaters) to ONE of the wheels..
Got another 25 miles down the road and said FKIT Iโm done for the day. Pick up in Savannah in the morning for Houston (another of my FML trips)
BUT, I got to park next to Tyler Reddicks hauler. That was pretty cool.. actually a few haulers at this pilot tonight.. I forgot they ran Homestead yesterday.. best image I could get.. I wasnโt about to embarrass myself by taking a photo of another trailer ๐คฃ
I think this is where Iโm struggling in the understanding.
Iโm generally a โshow me how toโ person when it comes to AI.. and *I* am the employee in this situation.
I know that so much more can be leveraged, and Iโm trying to grasp even the most simple of concepts..
This is why I left tech for trucking.. I just canโt adapt fast enough anymore. But it doesnโt mean Iโve quit trying.
ใBRUTALใElon Musk: "People who only ask questions to AI are going to get completely left behind," his statement is insane hahaha
Employee: "What's the right way to use AI?"
Elon: "Most people use it wrong."
Employee: "Huh?"
Elon: "You ask a question, read the answer, and that's it, right?"
Employee: "Isn't that how it's normally done?"
Elon: "That's wasting it."
Employee: "So what do you have to do?"
Elon: "Give the AI 50 subordinates."
Employee: "What? hahaha"
Elon: "First, an AI Chief of Staff plans the day."
Employee: "Okay."
Elon: "Then, an AI project manager assigns the work."
Employee: "I see."
Elon: "And more than 50 AI agents do the work."
Employee: "50?! hahaha"
Elon: "And on top of that, they can work 24 hours a day."
Employee: "But isn't that like a human company?"
Elon: "Exactly. AI manages AI."
Employee: "So what do humans do then?"
Elon: "They set the goals and make the important decisions."
Employee: "โฆโฆ"
Until now, AI was a human asking a question and getting an answer.
But with AI agents, you can divide the work, distribute it among multiple AIs, and even set up a system to review the results.
Of course, human supervision and quality control are still needed.
Even so, we've moved from the era where AI was just a simple assistant to the era where you direct an entire team of AIs.
From now on, those who know how to delegate work to AI will earn more than those who know how to use it.
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Need some Claude reference material in the form of an audio book or two or ten or whatever
Learning how to streamline some of my business workflow and set up some initial systems.
I have a modest web development background (although I donโt do it anymore) so coding isnโt a foreign concept to me.
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Enter the freight marketโฆ
Set a rate range limit by giving it a min-max rate per mile, verify details (commodity, weight, tarp, etcโฆ) provide required info (DOT, emails, etc..) book, confirm tracking (maybe? Idk how that works)
Keep a schedule of loads, provide a โdispatch planโ for the booked loads.
A week booked without blinking
Of course the unexpected circumstances may come into play, but spending hours on end with brokers? Gone.
And from the drivers perspective? โHey, bot, my friend, send an email to the current customer with xโ
F*ck YES... Elon Musk's team just made phone calls useless
Elon said it this morning: Grok Bot can call your dentist on the phone
It dials, sits on hold, talks to a real person and texts you what they said
6 calls I'm never making again, and the exact line I say:
โ Dentist: "Call and ask if they take my insurance, book the first slot after 5 PM"
โ Comcast: "Get my bill under $60 or cancel, refuse every offer, get a confirmation number"
โ Delta: "My flight got cancelled, get me a refund, not a voucher"
โ CVS: "Ask if my prescription is ready and what it costs without insurance"
โ Planet Fitness: "Cancel my membership today and email me the confirmation"
โ Hertz: "Ask why I was charged $89 after I returned the car and get it refunded"
Add one rule first: never agree to anything without asking me
Say the dentist line to Grok Bot tomorrow morning
Then read how to turn one bot like this into a whole team in the article below โ
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I still find myself struggling with AI at times. I can do the whole โshow me how toโ thing, but getting it to work seamlessly alongside me is a puzzle Iโve yet to solve.
Gemini and I designed a spreadsheet that would eventually spit out a CSV file to import into Wave accounting..
I set it up, imported all my pdf files, and then it acted like the spreadsheet we created never existed..
1 step forward and 2 back it seems..
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Coward wonโt allow opposing comments. Apparently likes living in his own bubble of yes men/women
Sand isnโt in office yet.
And Deere announced those closures months ago.
These two things are under Reynolds leadership as it stands.
Under Rob Sand
Day 1: John Deere closes 2 plants in Iowa
Day 2: Shooting at a government building
Thank you dumbass liberals who fell victim to obvious propaganda they saw on tv. Now Iowa is going to be the new Nigeria with a transgender leader
Readers added context they thought people might want to know
Rob Sand takes office as Iowa governor in January 2027. John Deere announced plans to shift production and close two plants in 2028 and 2029 due to changes in customer demand and an agricultural downturn.
iowapublicradio.org/political-newsโฆ
iowacapitaldispatch.com/2026/11/04/johโฆ
dtnpf.com/agriculture/weโฆ
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Iโm not certain that @elonmusk was aware of just how popular this product would be and how much usage it would generate in such a short timeframe, hence the sudden usage limit adjustment.
This is the fundamental problem with AI - the usage credits. It is a fantastic tool, and can eliminate a lot of headache for people.
But until the powers that be collectively find a way to make it achievable at a scale that wonโt bankrupt people, it is going to remain primarily a โask it how toโฆโ tool.
I'm a Grok @Bot fan. I also can't keep paying for it like this.
Since August, I've gone all in. I built a team of 24 bots to run my business, and I've told everyone who would listen: newsletter subscribers, conference audiences, podcast hosts, and my mastermind members.
Then something changed. No announcement. No explanation. Suddenly, the same work cost far more than it used to.
This week I hit my weekly usage limit after just five days. That's never happened before. When it happens, Grok Bot keeps running on paid credits. On top of my $200 monthly subscription, I've spent more than $272 on extra usage. It's November 3.
Here's what scares me. Under the new limits, I'm burning about $14 an hour. At 10 hours a day, that's $140 a day, or roughly $4,200 a month, plus the subscription.
So I did what users do. I went looking for fixes.
1. Pause the routines. I paused 19 scheduled tasks this morning. It barely helped. Spending kept climbing.
2. Duplicate long-running bots. Others recommend copying a bot to start its conversation fresh. But the copy loses everything the bot has learned about you.
3. Rethink group chats. This turned out to be the real cost. Every message in a group chat wakes every bot in it, even the ones with nothing to say. Most of my usage now comes from conversations, not automation.
Here's where we are. I'm moving shared project context out of group chats and into notes the bots read only when they need them. One lead bot per project. Fewer wake-ups.
It's helping. But I shouldn't have to reverse-engineer the billing to use the product the way it's designed.
Let me be clear. I'm not a freeloader. I don't expect free AI, and I'm happy to pay for real value. Grok Bot delivers real value.
What I can't do is commit a business to a platform when I can't predict what it will cost from one week to the next. That uncertainty is the problem.
The Grok Bot team has built something remarkable. I don't want to find an alternative, but I may have to. It all depends on whether SpaceXAI fixes this.
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I gotta shut this down quick as possible. For what little good this post does to the fan base..
When the show ended in 2012, it was David Shore, the creator of the show, who decided to pull the plug on it.
He said he felt that House ended on a perfect note, and that he had no intentions of ever bringing him back.
Plus we have to look at other cast members to make it plausible. While Hugh Laurie was absolutely the heartbeat of the show, it would never have been the hit it was without the rest of the gang:
- Lisa Edelsten.
- Robert Sean Leonard (who we can only assume that James passed away shortly after the show ended)
- Jessie Spencer
- Jennifer Morrison
- Omar Epps
- Olivia Wilde
- and Peter Jacobson
As much as I, like the rest of the fandom would LOVE to see this show return, itโs almost a guarantee it wonโt happen.
FOX has reportedly confirmed season 9 of โHOUSE M.D.โ, with HUGH LAURIE set to reprise his iconic role as DR. GREGORY HOUSE.
The new season would reportedly follow House years after faking his death, as he finds himself drawn back into medicine to tackle a series of mysterious cases unlike anything heโs encountered before.
Readers added context they thought people might want to know
No FOX confirmation of a House M.D. season 9 exists. The show ended after 8 seasons in 2012 by the producers' own decision, and creator David Shore said in 2024 he's reluctant to revisit the series, calling a revival unlikely soon. tvseriesfinale.com/tv-show/house-โฆ web.archive.org/web/2025052610โฆ
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Canโt reply to this due to the posters privacy settings, but *I* was that child growing up.
Reading time came around, vocabulary, all of it? From 3rd grade on i was sent to he next higher grade.
My grandparents instilled a fundamental love for reading as far back as i can remember. And it led to me being the โadvanced readerโ in school..
I was never afforded the opportunity to help others, sadly. I was more of an outcast for it. Teachers praised me, my classmates resented me.
My daughter's teacher called me in because my seven-year-old "reads too far ahead" in class.
TEACHER: "She finishes the assigned chapter in five minutes, then keeps reading."
ME: "And that's a problem because...?"
TEACHER: "It's disruptive. The other children feel pressured."
ME: "She's reading quietly."
TEACHER: "She sighs when the others struggle to finish."
ME: "Then perhaps she needs books that challenge her."
TEACHER: "We follow the curriculum. She needs to learn patience."
ME: "She's seven."
TEACHER: "Exactly. This is when children learn that the world doesn't revolve around them."
I paused, trying to understand what my daughter had actually done wrong.
ME: "What does she do after finishing her work?"
TEACHER: "She reads."
ME: "And during lunch?"
TEACHER: "I don't monitor every conversation during lunch."
That answer stayed with me.
I'd packed two sandwiches in her lunchbox that morning because she'd specifically asked for an extra one. I hadn't thought much about it.
After the meeting, I waited outside the lunchroom.
Then I saw her...
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If true, this is absolutely the healing we need..
Willingness to work together, not apart. Compromises CAN be reached for the betterment of EVERYONE, not just red or blue, if we just fucking try.
๐ฅ๐จ HOLY CRAP! โ JAMES TALARICO is blasting his own party and saying he will work with President Trump on immigration, housing, and criminal justice after the midterms.
TALARICO: "I think thereโs a wide variety of issues that we could work together on. Immigration is one of them."
"We should figure out a pathway to citizenship for those hardworking neighbors who have been here for years and decades so they can come out of the shadows."
"I also want to work with the president on housing. Heโs a builder, and we need to cut the red tape, the regulation that sometimes my party has been guilty of so that we can build millions of new homes in this country."
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Story time:
Got loaded today in Bolingbrook, Illinois.. prior to that, I never noticed any issues with my trailer whatsoever. It stopped fine, rolled better.. no air loss.. rotors and pads looked good.. nothing..
Get to shipper, tandems all the way back, they do their thing.
I pull out, throw a strap or two on the load, release the tandem pins, and begin to back up to slide them back where they were (light load.. 30k)
It doesnโt hit the stop. Ever.. Iโm freaking out..
Get out, they havenโt moved.. but *i* have.. Iโm almost against the dock again.. pull forward, check again.. unlocked. Back up, nearly hit the dock again.. NOTHING..
Pulled up, grabbed my 4x4s out of the side box, and politely asked the driver next to me, a seasoned vet (or at least I assumed so by his demeanor) to watch my slide rails and tires while I fixed this mess.. he obliged. (And spoke English, which in the Chicago area is a miracle unto itself..)
โTheyโre rollingโ was all he said..
Placed the 4x4s behind the wheels, and finally got it to slide back.
I thank him, he mentions โit looks like the calipers may be frozen up, the other side wasnโt moving when you apied the trailer brakes..โ
โWell FUCKโ, I said out loud, not realizing my inner monologue became public record.. he chuckled โthereโs a shop not too far awayโ
โYea, but itโs a USX trailer, they have to approve itโ
Called company, they said โwe can get you a shop, or you can risk it to Markham (our nearest terminal)โ
I wasnโt about to shell out for a damn hotel while I waited, so I did the dumb thing.. got it weighed (legal, thank god) and headed to Markham..fortunately only 20 miles away..
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