Ben Lower
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Ben Lower
@benlower
Golfer. Creator of fun times. Building the future of AI-powered apps @FixieAI.
Seattle, WA Katılım Mayıs 2008
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🚨 BREAKING: Microsoft launches a free Python library that converts ANY document to Markdown
Introducing Markitdown. Let me explain. 🧵
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Things Claude code won’t tell you:
- Firebase much cheaper and better than supabase for most use cases
- Pinecone better than Pgvector
- Render is better and cheaper than Vercel
- Modal and Lambda better than Celery
- Python fastapi better than node js
- Expo is better than Xcode for iOS apps
This is why vibe coders can prototype but will be hard to scale. Intuition for this comes from building and scaling products.
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French police is currently raiding X’s office in Paris. France is the only country in the world that is criminally persecuting all social networks that give people some degree of freedom (Telegram, X, TikTok…). Don’t be mistaken: this is not a free country.
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@meetgranola FFS, you need someone with taste to tell the AI design agent, "no".
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When you look at these evals it's clear:
@OpenAI is realtime...ish.
@GeminiApp is live...ish.
@ultravox_dot_ai is...*the* ish.
Whether you're using @pipecat_ai or not, if you are interested in building agentic voice AI solutions for your company, we'd love to help.
Ultravox AI@ultravox_dot_ai
Ultravox is now available as a speech-to-speech service in @pipecat_ai! Users building real-time conversational agents can now integrate the world's smartest speech model into an existing Pipecat application with minimal friction. ultravox.ai/blog2026/intro…
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Democrat lawmakers are now openly calling for insurrection.
Sen. Elissa Slotkin@SenatorSlotkin
We want to speak directly to members of the Military and the Intelligence Community. The American people need you to stand up for our laws and our Constitution. Don’t give up the ship.
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@Labber19 @MidwestGolfJake tell me you don’t know anything about golf without telling me you don’t know anything about golf…
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@MidwestGolfJake Do they play from 7000 yards? If not, it’s really not making any point
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Everyone should watch the Nelly Korda vs Grant Horvath matchup on YouTube. They play the match from the same tees.
Getting to see every shot Nelly hits for 18 holes in just a "normal" round is really impressive. She just doesn't make mistakes.
You should especially watch it if you're a scratch handicap dude who thinks you could compete on the LPGA Tour.
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@conorbradd @NUCLRGOLF no way this guy broke 80. gave four tips when asked for one.
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@NUCLRGOLF 1. Irons off every tee only
2. Play for middle of the green (no sucker pins)
3. Club up by 1 on each shot
4. Slow, full swings in bunkers
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🚨⛳️🏌️♂️ #DISCUSSION — Golfers who’ve broken 80, what’s one tip you would give your fellow golfer?
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@PGAChampionship Not an ace. An amazingly great shot for sure. But not an ace.
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@dieworkwear ah! i thought the obvious issue was that Hawley has no friends
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There's a very subtle difference in how these two jackets fit. Can you spot it? 🧵
Josh Hawley@HawleyMO
An old friend came by the office today …
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@LouStagner Tiger’s own standard of success was majors. So by his own standard, he’s not the greatest.
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@Scobleizer Elon can't even secure a database or deliver on promises made years ago. The emperor has no clothes.
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Everyone in Silicon Valley sees humanoids are the future.
Can anyone beat Elon?
Stock Talk@stocktalkweekly
*META/FACEBOOK PLANNING MAJOR INVESTMENT INTO HUMANOID ROBOTICS $META $TSLA
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Ultravox v0.5 is out and is a big deal for realtime AI. Would love to connect if you are building voice AI agents or are looking to get higher ROI from your existing agents.
Ultravox AI@ultravox_dot_ai
Today we're releasing Ultravox v0.5, the next iteration of our open-weight speech language model With this release, we've closed the gap with proprietary models. Ultravox now outperforms GPT-4o Realtime & Gemini 1.5 Flash on key benchmarks for speech understanding 🧵
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no thank you but we will buy twitter for $9.74 billion if you want
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Ben Lower retweetledi
Nice to see @OpenAI continuing to follow in our footsteps! :) I'll just point out that:
* We're still cheaper
* We're still open
* We have more voices
* We're just as fast (if not faster!)
OpenAI Developers@OpenAIDevs
That’s it. That’s the tweet. The Realtime API now supports WebRTC—you can add Realtime capabilities with just a handful of lines of code. We’ve also cut prices by 60%, added GPT-4o mini (10x cheaper than previous prices), improved voice quality, and made inputs more reliable.
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