Ben Church

I don’t care if you can invert a binary tree. I care if you have readable code and empathy.

Super excited to be speaking at Replay 2026, @temporalio conference. I'll be talking about our experience extracting Output[.]ai — our open source framework that helps developers new to AI ship reliable, scalable agents. #Replay2026 #TemporalIO #DurableExecution

the "agent harness" is the reason we built github.com/growthxai/outp… enabling teams to build workflows to production together with code agents. filesystem-first memory, reusable skills, swap any model, no saas fragmentation. everything easy to access to you and your agent.

@YaroST12 @FFmpeg @xiaonweb @AnthropicAI Someone in the room is for sure a moron...

@FFmpeg @xiaonweb @AnthropicAI You're a moron and a disgrace to ffmpeg: m.slashdot.org/story/453858 You've literally fallen for the "don't act like an LLM" slop.

Thank you to @AnthropicAI for sending FFmpeg patches

@wesbos @syntaxfm Here you go Wes. output.ai An OSS Javascript Framework for building durable LLM workflows and Agents. Roast it.

What are you working on? Send me your project. OSS, Paid, whatever. We're doing a @syntaxfm Syntax Highlight and we will review and/or roast your projects

After over a year of work we're open-sourcing our AI infra: It's called Output [dot] ai. - How do you work with proj. packed with prompts? - How do you track cost? - How do you test non-deterministic code? - How do you create datasets from prod data? 👇

@awilkinson We can use the excess heat to power our espresso machines and mash tuns

@awilkinson Andrew. You need to build Victoria our own data center. It’s the only answer.

@BusDownBonnor My own dash.ben.church

You just woke up Which dashboard are you checking first? Which chart?

@RoxCodes I collect them all right here x.com/i/lists/120770…

who's the best developer you know?

Best I’ve found is dangerously skip. I started by running it on a fresh laptop with little credentials. Got comfortable. Started risking it on a personal laptop. Sometimes if I’m forking an unfamiliar project I’ll isolate it in a docker container. Currently moving my workflow to cloud vms so I can hopefully continue this behaviour unscathed.

Does anyboy have a common list of permissions to make Claude less annoying

At 1703 we migrated a production SaaS from Python/React microservices to Elixir Phoenix monolith 3 apps → 1. 4 languages → 1. 5 frameworks → 1. Thread with quick numbers breakdown:

Should I make them fight?

Still hunting for the perfect setup of 1. Kanban with a column for “needs human intervention” and “has pr comments” 2.Remote agent sessions 3. With some kind of “ssh to take over” I've been using vibe-kanban for the last 2 weeks. Think it's 50% of the way there but still missing a few things. GitHub's update to copilot to allow codex and Claude as your agent is my next thing to try. However I just read this pkarnal.com/blog/open-sour… And realized I might be thinking too low level about the whole thing.

You can read an expanded version of this idea here: by.ben.church/the-polymath-n…

We have the smartest users in the whole world. What a project. Bookmark this - we're building the email infra for the next million unicorn companies.

Midweek coffee lifts me. Robots lift the rest. gm ☀️

@arvidkahl Beautiful use of this stuff Arvid! Well done

When someone signs up to your SaaS, grab their email domain, get a summary from Firecrawl, have an LLM generate you the best starting keywords/configuration / demo project settings for your service. Run this while they click "confirm" in their email. First impression: magical.

@coreyhainesco 3 certain things in life 1. Death 2. Taxes 3. Atlassian killing something I like (RIP Chartio)

Rip independent browsers

@Austen Best of luck! Seems like looking for a React Dev with 5 years experience in 2014 :

Have had a huge number of conversations in the past couple weeks with folks who desperately need robotics/embedded systems engineers who are AI experts. If you're an embedded systems engineer, please apply to Gauntlet AI.