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Ted Benson

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AI Code Generation @Figma. Probably camping. Your biggest fan.

Katılım Eylül 2008
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Ted Benson@edwardbenson·
The hard part about being accused of being Satoshi has got to be the risk to personal security. I’m kind of surprised newspapers would dox folks like that — thrilling story aside.
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SF is the only city that makes me smile down to my bones just walking around.
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AI output isn’t slop. It’s the shift that happens when goods become cheaper than labor. Hand carved cathedrals were made when people were cheap and stone was expensive. Glass office buildings are what we get when people are expensive and rebar + sand is cheap.
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@yoheinakajima 100 internet points -- well played 🤣. 今週、私もSFに来ています……1年ぶりです!
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Yohei@yoheinakajima·
今週SF行くんだけど 誰と会うと良いかな? ちょっと空きある
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The meta observation re Pretext is that there are market segments whose existence hinges upon certain problems being annoying enough to solve that the solution is a business moat. Like InDesign and text flow (as well as a few other printing-centric features). LLMs make it possible to traverse that moat in days
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Ted Benson@edwardbenson·
@terronk @pitdesi @zalzally Eva has had them on SFO-TPE routes for a long time. I think they call it the "Family Couch" ticket. It's great.
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Lee Edwards@terronk·
@pitdesi @zalzally First (4, I think?) people to ask for it on person at the desk before the flight, space permitting. We just showed up literally when the desk opened for the flight (4 hours early?) Oh and actually this was a Lufthansa operated flight though I think we had booked through united.
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How AI fluent your engineering team is will make and break entire companies. I think we’re going to start seeing reverse interviews where the best candidates are given time to assess the team they might join. Too much opportunity cost for blind jumps at the moment.
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Man.. the more agents, sandboxes, & worktrees develop, the more the architecture looks like Steamship. I’m not sure what lesson to take away from that.
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Me: Gemini, do some deep research about what I can do to make my big toe to stop hurting. IMPORTANT: Use a casual tone of voice. Gemini:
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Ted Benson@edwardbenson·
This is such a great example of the hidden fingerprints enterprise contracts leave on consumer software. The software you use is almost never one-size-fits all. It's filled with code like: if (colgateUser) { .. } else if (cocaColaUser) { .. } brianmoore.com/fontsmuggler/
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Ted Benson@edwardbenson·
Developers who don't use --dangerously-skip-permissions
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Daniel Sempere Pico@dansemperepico·
You guys all run Claude Code with claude --dangerously-skip-permissions right? Because otherwise how in the world can you sit there accepting every single permission when building something?
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Ted Benson@edwardbenson·
Kicked forward the Kaya langauge a bit yesterday eve. - `renderComponent` to render TSX into HTML - `htmlToPdf` to render HTML into PDF Strange things to be part of the stdlib, but useful if the language is for exploring LLM-native content hackery. Here's a video of using those two components to render a recipe PDF.
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Ted Benson@edwardbenson·
Just tried to run Google's Deep Research API example copied verbatim from their docs. As usual, the next 30 minutes were spent searching for auth-related error messages and then I gave up. It's nuts that Google might lose the AI race because they can't figure out API keys.
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Ted Benson@edwardbenson·
As Anthropic increases the price of Claude Code to reflect the true cost basis, they'll see an uptick in negative sentiment in their log samples. Users put up with a lot of wasted time at fixed price that will infuriate them at high variable price. Lawyers know this well.
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Ted Benson@edwardbenson·
Related: I think one of the stories of 2026 will be that managers lose control of their ICs. When an IC sees 200x productivity going route A, versus 1x productivity going route B, many will choose Route A
Bojan Tunguz@tunguz

We've reached the point in software development where it's far far easier for a small cracked team to actually build a product than for any team in a big co get the "approval" from "all the relevant stakeholders". This will have major consequences for most incumbents.

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Ted Benson@edwardbenson·
Superintelligence is “super” because regular intelligence can’t keep up. Not a developer I know can keep up with AI code generation speed. We selectively code review, but for the most part we just click “accept” and keep the generation going. We can’t keep up.
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