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Ben Eng

@jetpen

Applied cosmology toward machine precise solutions to replace humans with autonomous systems in all domains.

Frisco, TX Katılım Haziran 2009
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Ben Eng
Ben Eng@jetpen·
I'd like to contribute a term: Everything as Code (EaC). x.com/i/status/19013… This extends from: - Infrastructure as Code - using a language like Terraform to automate the provisioning of computing infrastructure - Configuration as Code - using YAML, JSON, or other precise schema-validated specifications in combination with GitOps processes to configure the deployment of software components - Everything as Code - using natural language specifications of intent to drive an AI agent in combination with GitOps
Ben Eng@jetpen

@zekramu Everything done for engineering is becoming computerized or computer aided. Everything that is computerized becomes software driven. Everything software driven becomes "as code". Ultimately, all engineering is becoming software engineering.

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Ben Eng@jetpen·
Forgot the link to what I was referring to. x.com/i/status/20347…
Wes Roth@WesRoth

Apple has quietly halted App Store updates for popular AI "vibe-coding" applications most notably the $9 billion startup Replit and mobile app builder Vibecode. After months of pushback, Apple is reportedly demanding major UX changes. Replit is being asked to force its generated app previews to open in an external web browser rather than natively inside its app. Vibecode was told it must completely remove the ability to generate software specifically for Apple devices.

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Ben Eng@jetpen·
Not sure what this is about. Replit certainly lures in the non-coder to believe they are building valuable software, when in fact it is useless without Replit to host it. Misleading?
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Ben Eng@jetpen·
My wife has been building her own web site using Replit. It's an online AI coding agent for building apps. It enables your apps to integrate with a database, authentication, Stripe payments, and GPT. She built a fully functional site that she wanted to go live with. She even found a way to push her code to GitHub. When I pulled the code (TypeScript), built it, and tried to run it, I saw that its integrations make it non-portable. It's locked in to Replit. You can't host the resulting application elsewhere. The intellectual property you build there is worthless. Heartbroken, my wife asks me to help her set up an equivalent vibe coding environment that can build a portable application deployed in our own hosting platform. I told her if I had that, it would be worth millions of dollars. She expected that magic to have been a solved problem in today's AI environment.
Ben Eng@jetpen

From the perspective of a user of AI, it must look like magic. Managers are now assuming that AI is capable of replacing humans and eliminating the need for code. They are believing that AI will understand whatever you say, and respond by doing things without needing to provide any software implementation that facilitates that capability. No application functions to serve as tools. No APIs to expose those functions. No MCP Servers to adapt those tools for use by an AI agent. No skills to specify how the AI can make use of the tool. No specification of how to orchestrate, plan, memorize, validate, apply guardrails, execute actions, etc. Just input a prompt and expect it to work. All I could say was "... AI is not magic."

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Eric Weinstein@EricRWeinstein·
This time, it's different.
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Ben Eng@jetpen·
@lossfunk 0% accuracy speaking a language that it does not know sounds like you have achieved AGI. 0% is what a human would achieve for that test.
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Lossfunk@lossfunk·
🚨 Shocking: Frontier LLMs score 85-95% on standard coding benchmarks. We gave them equivalent problems in languages they couldn't have memorized. They collapsed to 0-11%. Presenting EsoLang-Bench. Accepted to the Logical Reasoning and ICBINB workshops at ICLR 2026 🧵
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Ben Eng@jetpen·
@alxfazio a sufficiently detailed source file is not an executable binary
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alex fazio@alxfazio·
a sufficiently detailed spec is not code
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Ben Eng@jetpen·
I didn't even realize folks using other AI coding agents were allowing the agent to commit changes and push those commits. I don't give agents any capability to commit or push. Changes must go through me to do that.
Yuchen Jin@Yuchenj_UW

I noticed something interesting: Claude Code auto-adds itself as a co-author on every git commit. Codex doesn’t. That’s why you see Claude everywhere on GitHub, but not Codex. I wonder why OpenAI is not doing that. Feels like an obvious branding strategy OpenAI is skipping.

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Ben Eng@jetpen·
@relizarov Grok says a coder in India costs 25,000 USD. If a coding agent's token cost is less than that, it's worth it.
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Roman Elizarov
Roman Elizarov@relizarov·
A mouse trap with free cheese is closing. Cursor locks SOTA models under Max mode, Anthropic is charging high prices for code reviews. That’s just a start. Using AI for coding will become more expensive, not cheaper. The only ceiling to price hikes is human labor cost.
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Ben Eng@jetpen·
Been thinking about doing the following. Our legacy code base for an application is all under a group in gitlab. There is a tree structure of git projects. Enable AI coding by: Use a meta-repo at the top to clone the entire group's tree to the local repo. Specify AGENTS_md at the top along with skills to do cross-project code refactoring, bug fixes, and feature enhancements, as well as application-wide security audits, quality assurance, and that kind of thing. It has a .gitignore for the group directory. Under this directory is where the whole tree is cloned. Now subagents can work independently on each git project in the tree.
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John Crickett
John Crickett@johncrickett·
if you're using AI to build software, how are you using subagents? Specialised for a task? Multiple background agents to do work in parallel? Both? Or something else?
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Ben Eng@jetpen·
@EricRWeinstein Isn't the doctrine as simple as "non-proliferation to America's adversaries at all cost"?
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Eric Weinstein
Eric Weinstein@EricRWeinstein·
We need a well-described doctrine here. That is asserted, not discussed. It needs to make sense. It will not be pretty, fair or popular. But it cannot be ad hoc. It would bind the nation who shoulders it, both terribly and forever. And then we need to live that doctrine. RIP
Open Source Intel@Osint613

Hegseth: "My 13 year old son popped into my office last night while I was editing these remarks. He asked about the war and the families I met at Dover. I looked at him and said, 'They died for you, son. So your generation doesn't have to deal with a nuclear Iran.'"

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Ben Eng@jetpen·
I am seeing extremely divergent emotional reactions to AI productivity improvements in the work place. Many colleagues see the management push toward AI uptake as a prelude to job cuts, as AI replaces our job roles, or AI will motivate reductions in force (RIF). They are highly resistant to participating in their own destruction. This is individual AI doom. On the other hand, some are like me, excited and optimistic about the productivity increases and the reduction in human effort required to do most things. I see it as destroying what makes our jobs miserable, and creating a better future for ourselves.
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Ben Eng@jetpen·
@ZubyMusic I'm not suggesting we not verify to prevent bots. I'm just saying the government is ready to exploit this desire, as well.
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ZUBY:@ZubyMusic·
@jetpen Bit of a leap. What's the point of having verified accounts if they're not actually verified to be human? Verification has existed since the inception of social media.
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ZUBY:@ZubyMusic·
It feels like the overall experience of social media has dropped significantly in the last few months. It's not unique to this platform, but all of the ones I use. Am I alone in this sentiment?
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Ben Eng@jetpen·
@ZubyMusic The government's push for Know Your Customer (KYC) and age verification are going to love this sentiment, and push toward gov-controlled digital id.
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ZUBY:@ZubyMusic·
@elonmusk Yeah. Can't verification be used to prevent that?
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Alexandros Marinos 🏴‍☠️@alexandrosM·
There are no words for the stupidity on display. Enjoy.
Eric Daugherty@EricLDaugh

🚨 BREAKING: In a STUNNING moment, CNN was just forced to report that Donald Trump has 100% MAGA APPROVAL 100%. WOW 🔥 The kicker? The share of voters who call themselves "MAGA" is the *SAME* as when he won in 2024! "You don't have to be a GENIUS to know you can't go higher than 100%!" "Some Republicans disapprove...but they are NOT members of the MAGA movement." Q: But are people leaving MAGA? CNN: "In November 2024, 28% were MAGA. It's basically the SAME, 30%!" "The MAGA base is NOT SHRINKING — it's the SAME SIZE! If anything, it's slightly larger!" "That 100% that Trump has among MAGA GOP, is NOT an artifact of MAGA shrinking. It's just how strong Trump's grip is on the MAGA base!"

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Ben Eng@jetpen·
@HamelHusain How long until this is replaced by ordered lists and unordered lists with nesting in a markdown spec as a part of a skill?
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Hamel Husain@HamelHusain·
Ya'll worried about AI Coding slop, when there as an entire army of n8n experts who are installing unmaintainable visual workflow spaghetti in small/medium sized businesses at scale Literal merchants of complexity. Its so much worse than using claude code. It's an artifact of being stuck 6 months in the past and n8n is all you know.
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Ben Eng@jetpen·
Is there a meta-MCP server that can host arbitrary numbers of local (stdio) MCP servers with the following behavior? - registers all tools into a registry for discovery (offloaded from LLM context) - enables semantic search so that an intent can be matched to tool descriptions, returning the best matches - enables starting an MCP server on demand, and stopping on idle - calls a tool on an MCP server once it is running I imagine this replacing the typical MCP client that is embedded into agents to bypass the typical tool discovery strategy that fills the context with every tool of every MCP server (necessarily running). The client would then also provide its own hosting platform, so MCP servers can be orchestrated to start on demand and stop on idle. I'm also seeing how smart a deep agent working with a LLM can be driven purely based on a SKILL_md in combination with bash or Python to call any CLI or API. This leads me to think that MCP may also be more trouble than it is worth in future. Especially if agent skills can be compiled (AOT or JIT) into executable code for high performance and deterministic execution. Here is the eye-opening experience that leads me to question how MCP works.
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Ben Eng@jetpen·
autocorrect is so retarded. it thinks that stdio should be replaced by studio. hey autocorrect, go redirect yourself to /dev/null
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Ben Eng@jetpen·
@svpino It's the type of person who is unable to imagine the perspective of anyone else acting beyond their own use case.
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Ben Eng@jetpen·
@EricRWeinstein Scientists are not waiting for telescopes and colliders as much as they are waiting for funerals to move physics forward.
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Eric Weinstein@EricRWeinstein·
For a exactly 42 years, fundamental physics has consisted of a gated institutional narrative that anyone attempting to explain the origins of the Standard Model and General Relativity outside of one theory known not to work, is a crank that cannot be part of the community. Here:
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Elon Musk@elonmusk

@Andercot For a long time, physics has consisted of waiting around for a new collider or telescope

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