Ben Cuan

I've been looking for a new home for my writing/other creative projects, and ultimately decided to build one of my own. 6 weeks, 29,845 words and 119 code commits later, i'm super excited to share the Garden with you all!

Read the full post here: bencuan.me/blog/vibecode

I'm looking forward to a near future where agents become even more capable; we've seen some early signs of life through recent experiments like Steve Yegge's Gastown and Peter Steinberger's Clawdbot.

the term 'vibe coding' just turned 1 year old. we've come a long way in that short time! I ran an evaluation on 5 coding agents (claude code, cursor, copilot, antigravity, and augment) to see which one performed the best as of early 2026.

If you're interested in learning more, you can check out garden.bencuan.me/about. I'm also publishing a weekly newsletter about recent developments and ideas I'm pondering: garden.bencuan.me/subscribe Curious about what's behind the scenes? garden.bencuan.me/about/Build-Log is for you :)

here's the link: -> garden.bencuan.me

I've been looking for a new home for my writing/other creative projects, and ultimately decided to build one of my own. 6 weeks, 29,845 words and 119 code commits later, i'm super excited to share the Garden with you all!

feel free to peek/subscribe at bencuan.substack.com if you want to keep in touch :) new posts every wednesday @ 9am 🤠

At my current phase of learning, I feel like there's a lot of value in practicing writing/sharing thoughts more freely (higher quantity + lower expectation for quality)! Here's what I hope the next year will look like:

this year, i'm starting a weekly newsletter at bencuan.substack.com (for reals this time!!)

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@devonzuegel Tapping a tuning fork and seeing who resonates

@haewonpark_ @_buildspace @_nightsweekends @FarzaTV this is a really cool topic- i look forward to seeing your analysis! I'm curious what format you're planning on releasing it in- will it be an essay? a video? or something more abstract?

Plurality vs. Singularity What direction is our future taking? What solutions will shape our tomorrow? @_buildspace @_nightsweekends @FarzaTV

@domknguyen @_buildspace this is awesome, i've been looking for meaningful activities to fill waiting time with others (like being in line for a concert)! curious to see how you'll solve the server problem- are you planning on running your own or making the connection fully local/p2p?

This is my idea for Season 5 N&W @_buildspace I'm building a digital board game where the pieces can move across phones in order to create more present gatherings. Been working on this for a bit but excited to start building in public again! What do you think? #buildinpublic

@vpanini__ @_buildspace @_nightsweekends yoo let's go, love to see the gamedev dream is still alive :D any plans for procuring art/music?

just got started a few days ago and have already been learning a ton tinkering around in unity - hyped to keep building! there's still a lot of scope to cut down if I want this done in 6 weeks, but I'll let that happen as I continue to build cc: @_buildspace & @_nightsweekends

@tharyntaylor @_buildspace @_nightsweekends that's the plan! gonna smack a big ol' (touch)screen somewhere haha

@bencuan_ @_buildspace @_nightsweekends yes plz. take my money haha. but how exactly does it run doom? like is there a screen on the board? niceeee