Ben Tossell

ai layoffs are surely just getting rid of people who aren’t good enough with ai not actually replacing them with ai

my first fund just hit 5x! i had a potential GP last year who didn't invest because they weren't sure I was a 5x returner second fund also doing pretty well third is currently in-progress

re github should we all just be deploying to our own servers instead? keep code local? only publish open source code?

what’s the best model & harness that just gets writing vibe right? i don’t want any content generated, but sparring partner and for it to really get the style im going for so it can critique i mix up trying a lot of md files, examples and such

wow such insight “your sleep duration may be associated with longer sleep” ai doesn’t need to be filler feature in fucking everything. why do i want an ai summary of my sleep performance anyway? people can’t think that’s a valuable thing to have surely?!

interactive components - help! tried so many things but i really struggle to generate well done interactive components ive purchased animations dev, interface craft and devouring details. they’re spectacular and i want to be able to generate components like they include in their courses/not courses any videos/tools/resources 🙏

I just started screen-recording my feedback and giving that file to my agent. then generate a html report with screenshots and GIFs. i can show other apps/sites with good examples, highlight things and mention pretty accurate time-issues 'happens right now' not for the token conscious skill md is just: --- name: video-to-html description: Use when the user wants you to convert their video into a structured HTML document. --- Turn the user's video into a structured HTML document. Transcribe the video and pull out the keyframes linked to timestamps for important information. When the user is talking about something that is not dynamic, create short GIFs from the keyframes.

oofff just made the top 2k for new digg

trillion $ idea... claude but it actually follows your instructions

today-i-realised @ file in an AGENTS.md also gets auto-read by your agent i kinda knew this as i'd always @ AGENTS.md in my CLAUDE.md instead of the path otherwise claude wouldn't read it only today applying it to other setups 🤦‍♂️

one of the best things to come out of this AI timeline @Casey is posting videos again 😍

enjoyed this because what i took away; learn the system to me, this is the difference of vibe coding and agentic engineering. i'm actively trying to learn the system, not the syntax. syntax is what i couldn't grapple when attempting to learn to code. but the system is clicking more for me the more i build im miles away from a 'competent software engineer' but im only building things for myself, so i dont *need* to be - but the more i build, the more that clicks into place. i didnt realise it when i was slinging no-code in 2018 but it was a version of learning parts of a system to get software to work (webflow - frontend, airtable - database, zapier - api/backend). it had limitations but now i replaced all of that with code. having actual competent engineers create skills and systems to help a sloppy codebase or process is helping (as well as better models). but i do rely on that for years i didnt spend learning to code. stay curious folks

“following up” don’t, i’m ignoring you on purpose

why’d i put in such a smol cheque 🥹

plans replaced prompt engineering right? we do context engineering and talk 'normally' to agents but the plan is just what 'how to prompt X model' is

i should start the bens bites ben deployment company to help non-technical people become builders catchy

did a breakdown in bensbites and sent out 20 mins ago - go read it if you’re interested 😁 will open source soon

i still prefer using TUI over GUI

designers i envy you all the most interesting stuff is coming from them with ai