Ben Sparks
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Ben Sparks
@bensprks
Smart Contract Lead @0xFastLane | Prev @Aave
Dubai, United Arab Emirates Katılım Ağustos 2012
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AI perf/cost barbell strategy:
- $100 Codex for most stuff
- GLM 5.1 via OpenCode for frontend/design stuff
Any reason to still have a Claude Code subscription I'm not thinking of?
Design Arena@Designarena
BREAKING: GLM 5.1 by @Zai_org overwhelmingly dominates design-centric coding tasks amongst open-weight models In the categories featured below, it is most comparable to Opus 4.6 by @AnthropicAI at ~1/8th the cost Huge congrats to the @Zai_org team for this achievement!
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@blakeandersonw Took me 3 weeks just to get a personal developer account approved. They seem super overwhelmed with the influx of new AI-assisted devs.
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Excited to join @Polymarket as VP of Engineering.
I haven’t seen a hungrier team in my career, the talent density here is insane.
We’re building the future of how people understand the world.
What should we build next? What’s broken? What’s missing?
Drop it below.
P.s we are hiring world class people in NYC DMs open
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Earn $1000 by selling Qwen as GPT-5.
This paper audits third-party "shadow APIs". Bad news: massive deception in the LLM market.
- Endpoints fake their model identities.
- Accuracy on complex reasoning tasks plummets by up to 50%.
- Users pay premium rates for open-source models.
arxiv.org/abs/2603.01919

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@pashmerepat Please add a $100 tier. The gap in the market between the $20 and $200 tiers is kinda insane.
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@badlogicgames If I built something like this, would you be keen to try it?
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Ben Sparks@bensprks
Product Request: service that makes you escrow funds to make PRs on high profile OS repos. Funds + interest get returned if your PR gets merged. If PR gets rejected, funds shared by repo’s successful contributors. Should help filter to PR spam.
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Is something broken with Codex usage metering or limits? I'm going through my weekly limits wayyy faster than I did a week ago @thsottiaux
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Introducing Builder Score
The future of the internet is being built by solo builders. We’re doubling down on tools that turn building in public into a funding loop and let you back builders directly.
We’re handing out @claudeai Code subscriptions.
Post your Builder Card, tag @framedotfun, and keep an eye on your DMs.
builders.frame.fun
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