New 50,000 sqft manufacturing facility in detroit for @groundedevs

I was on the software engineering team at @SpaceX working on the @Delta deal Everything @elonmusk said is true - Delta was uncompromising on the need for an annoying portal At the time, I actually thought what Delta was asking for was reasonable and I saw a huge opportunity on closing that deal, but one of the biggest lessons I learned from Elon at SpaceX is that’s super important to know when to say no to customers, and have conviction in the product you’re building rather than saying yes to every one-off customer request (Btw now considering doing a loyalty switch from @Delta to @united) This temptation to say yes to custom customer requests (close the deal and make the customer happy?!) is never-ending while building a startup But long term, saying yes to all of these undermines your ability to scale the business and deliver a great product Our strategy at @groundedevs has been to “build standard, sell custom” aka “configurable, not custom” where we have a modular library customers can choose from for specialty vehicle & RV interiors We still get it wrong sometimes, though. The temptation is strong

Cybercab spotted in Southwest Detroit

Prepping for the @groundedevs factory ribbon cutting tomorrow with Detroit Mayor & Michigan Chief Mobility Officer

Groundedevs.com is our company btw

Grounded's 50,000 sq ft Detroit manufacturing facility ribbon cutting with Detroit Mayor Sheffield is Sep 8th at 10:30am @groundedevs RSVP here if you happen to be in Michigan - luma.com/0kw9eill

Well said- “Another jump like this along these propensity dimensions — scale, cooperation between agents, ambition and horizon length of misaligned goals, deceptiveness — seems like it could motivate agents to try to maintain a persistent rogue deployment within the AI company, poisoning the training of future models to ensure that they are also misaligned and help harden and perpetuate the rogue deployment.”

Wizard behind the curtain

Onshape may have lost many of its advantages (e.g. easy to set up, easy to use API, etc.) with the proliferation of modern LLMs Setting up Teamcenter & programmatic NX operations in the past took 100x longer than setting up Onshape, but Claude levels the playing field

We have achieved superintelligence #worldcup2026

We recently relaunched the @groundedevs marketing website, cancelling Wix, and rebuilding the prior Wix site from scratch in about 2 days using Claude Code, but that isn't the story here. Neither is the story that with Claude Code, we made SIGNIFICANT improvements over what the prior Wix site had been, fixing Wix bugs, adding beautiful animations not possible with Wix, rebuilding flat infographics from scratch using pure HTML + CSS so that they actually get picked up by SEO bots, and more. None of that is the story, nor the point of rebuilding the site. The story, and the point of rebuilding the site is twofold: 1. I had Claude Code deploy marketing pixels on the site in a granular way that would have been impossible to do with Wix. Then, I had Claude design and deploy a hyper-optimized performance marketing campaign on Google and Facebook ad networks, using images and copy from our website with precision optimization of user outcomes tied directly back to the pixels Claude deployed. Now, on a daily basis, Claude is able to iterate in a closed-loop system that it fully manages: analyze the performance of the campaigns, adjust the ads, and directly change the website dynamically. 2. We now have a website, which, from a marketing perspective, can be iterated on strictly from natural language, instead of fighting against a 20-year old company's drag-and-drop, constraining UI. But I guess that all still buries the lead. The real story is that we cancelled our subscriptions to Wix, ClickUp, JIRA/Atlassian, MES manufacturing software, analytics software, NX's managed cloud environment... and rebuilt them all from scratch into a unified "Grounded OS" that powers our: - Vehicle production schedules - Inventory management - Work orders for technicians - Warranty claim management - BOM cost tracking - Grounded-managed cloud Teamcenter/NX environment with virtual CAD workstations - Sales team conference schedule - Marketing website, content, SEO and real-time + aggregated analytics - Sales task & product/software management - Performance marketing campaigns I've read tweets from people joking about how "Our $200K software engineer spent a month rebuilding our $20/month SaaS software and now spends 10 hours per week maintaining it". I reserve the right to decide that everything I described above is a terrible idea and certainly not worth a CEO's time... but it seems like building extremely customized tools precision-targeted to Grounded's business and use cases is benefitting us in an outsized way. Also, as crazy as this sounds, I think the Foundation Models are still being under-valued. There are so many software companies and tools popping up that offer AI-powered x,y,z, but so far, in 9 of 10 cases I've come across, doing it yourself with the Foundation Models results in more granular control and customization, leading to more simplicity and better outcomes. Plus, SaaS tool fatigue is real, and it's pretty great to have everything unified. – at Detroit, MI

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?"