ben
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ben
@suppyben
making things do things in da computer
Nashville, TN Katılım Ekim 2010
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Yeah good luck searching for "c" in your codebase a month from now
Jamon@jamonholmgren
Unpopular opinion: 1- or 2-letter variable names in focused, obvious contexts are totally fine.
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We're not a big fan of the government.
R A W S A L E R T S@rawsalerts
🚨#BREAKING: Watch as a massive swarm of bees descends on the White House press corps’ Pebble Beach media area on the North Lawn of the White House after forming a hive in a nearby tree with some witnesses describing the scene as a bee tornado
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Hi, so as someone who filed taxes, I don’t believe this.
The White House@WhiteHouse
MORE MONEY IN YOUR POCKETS!
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same guy who made midnight gospel btw
Headquarters@HQNewsNow
Joe Rogan guest: This war shit bugs me. I feel so stupid. Because when they were doing their no war thing, that was a big deal to me. No more wars, fuck yes, focus on the country, why are we blowing up children in other countries for oil? It's literally the opposite now. How many Iranian schoolgirls did Trump blow up?
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i am using supermaven again and i have something to say about this whole AI thing.
I think as a group (swe) we rushed so fast into Agents when inline autocomplete + actual skills is crazy. A good autocomplete that is fast like supermaven actually makes marked proficiency gains, while saving me from cognitive debt that comes from agents.
With agents you reach a point where you must fully rely on their output and your grip on the codebase slips. Its insane how good cursor Tab is. Seriously, I think we had something that genuinely makes improvement to ones code ability (if you have it). Truly acts as a multiplier, and we left it in the dust because it is not sexy.
hurts me on the inside.
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@Yuchenj_UW or you just use blackhole to reroute your system audio lololol
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A new habit I’ve developed: vibe-coding personal software on demand.
Yesterday I wanted to clip part of a YouTube video, but the built-in Mac recorder can’t capture system audio.
So I asked Claude Code to build a recorder for me. I’ve never written Swift, so I blindly accepted everything, and it worked perfectly in ~10 minutes.
Now I don’t have to install bloated software like OBS with tons of features I don’t need and pay for them. I just vibe-code exactly what I need, and I can add new features anytime. The cost of doing so is ~$0 now.

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just met a cute girl at the wedding i’m at
like unreal. face card so crazy my frontal lobe clocked out. i’m talking generational. if symmetry was a startup she just closed series b.
we’re vibing. she’s laughing. eye contact locked. i’m farming aura like it’s a full-time job.
then coding comes up.
she goes “yeah i code”
my soul did a hard restart
i’m like oh word “what do you build?”
she says
“mostly vibe-coding rn”
and that’s where a normal man would say “that’s fire” and get her number
but unfortunately i was built in a lab
i go:
“ok define vibe-coding”
“claude code or codex”
“cursor agent mode or raw dogging prompts”
“you got git or just vibes”
“tests?”
“types?”
“deploy?”
“rollback?”
“you read diffs or click accept like a casino addict”
she starts laughing like i’m joking
i was entering forensic mode.
she says “i just use chatgpt and claude and keep asking until it kinda works”
i say “works where”
she says “like… on my laptop”
i say “so localhost cosplay”
bro.
and i swear to God the violinist in the corner sounded like a system alarm
the vibe died instantly
DIED
flatline. kernel panic. social segfault. full emotional 500 in prod.
i try one last save. i go “ok but do you at least push to github”
she says “sometimes, i mostly keep stuff on desktop folders”
DESKTOP FOLDERS
i started dissociating. i could see my ancestors. i could hear linus torvalds screaming in the distance.
her friend walks over like “omg are y’all talking tech”
and i accidentally say
“she said she’s a developer but her stack is claude code, codex, and divine intervention”
she goes “wait no i made a website”
i said “a figma screenshot with a typeform link is not a website, it is a cry for help”
SILENCE.
like biblical silence.
they walked away. she did not look back.
my friend comes over like “bro she was INTO you what happened”
i said “she called herself a coder and then described generating a landing page and praying over it”
he said “so?”
SO???
i’m supposed to build a future with someone whose incident response plan is ‘refresh and re-prompt’???
she had a heavenly face card but an apocalyptic workflow
zero tests
zero repos
zero shame
infinite vibes
could’ve had her number
but she now knows i respect source control
and honestly that’s worth more

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