ben foden

Regional manager for North America at Helpfeel. I try everything at least once.

[ben foden @benfoden]

May your challenges be your best teacher.

[ben foden @benfoden]

Many subconsciously view their body as a brain container. Disembodied, disconnected from the physical world.

I’m recovering from this myself bit by bit, step by step.

[Zane Hengsperger @zanehengsperger]

Every single person on this app is under estimating the power of the legacy US industrial base.

Bob and Joe are doing $300M a year and absolutely crushing.

[ben foden @benfoden]

Just finished the AI Infra Summit.

…and almost every high tech manufacturer, integrator, and supplier is paying their engineers to answer simple questions buried in 100 page PDFs.

[ben foden @benfoden]

Nvidia is representing the empire at the AI Infra Summit #maythegreenbewithyou

[ben foden @benfoden]

You know that feeling when you get a text message from an older person that reads like a letter?

It’s a mismatch with the medium, largely due to lack of experience.

In the future we’ll see old-style prompts and wonder how anything got done.

[Danielle Fong 🔆 @DanielleFong]

p(doom) is a fundamentally passive and therefore extremely wrong frame by the way. the probability is actively fought and fractal every step of the way. the discourse has never understood this, having overly narrow and specific game theory frameworks on finite games, injected with "foom" logic and pathological infinities with regards to the power of AI players.

we need to get beyond this now that a higher resolution is in view

[ben foden @benfoden]

I gave a talk on using agents to translate more than text. I’m using them to local market context like buyer personas, competitors, and demo examples to name a few, then use that to automate internationalization. It gets 80% quality in one shot and the details I edit by voice.

[Helpfeel Tech @Helpfeeltech]

ben（@benfoden）は、MultiLingual x MultiModalで対応が迫られる中、単純なAI翻訳を超えて、AIを活用して世界に通用するUXを作るための工夫について発表しました。

サンフランシスコ HACK Labからお届けしました。

#Helpfeel_tech
#HelpfeelTechConf2026

[ben foden @benfoden]

Going to office hours in SF in 2026 is probably what it felt like going to a London tea house during the renaissance.

[ben foden @benfoden]

The blue sky market

[ben foden @benfoden]

Astra is a sharp tool. Try the new reasoning level Superior Platinum.

[ben foden @benfoden]

Spice is harvested in San Francisco.

See the empire, the houses, the butlerians, the spacing guild, the navigators, the bene gesserit.

We are the fremen: engineers, founders, operators.

If Muad’dib delivers inference for all, the only scare resource is human intent.

[ben foden @benfoden]

Everybody is different but every LLM instance is the same (for a given model).

[ben foden @benfoden]

My mildly surprised reaction to the Agentic AI summit 2026 at UC Berkeley. It was written up in Japanese but you can autotranslate my thoughts below:

[株式会社Helpfeel @helpfeel]

世界中から5,000人が集まり、ほぼすべてのセッションが 満席。
熱狂に包まれた「Agentic Al Summit 2026」 に、Helpfeel CEO 洛西と北米ディレクター Benが参加してきました!
企業の「実務」 へと移り始めているAgentic Al。
UC Berkeleyから現地レポートをお届けします👇
https://t.co/36gaPrcC2i

[ben foden @benfoden]

@helpfeel インタビューありがとうございました！

シリコンバレーからは多くの伝説が生まれていますね。

その中には海外からアメリカに渡って成功した人も少なくありません。

[株式会社Helpfeel @helpfeel]

◤公式note公開 ◢
挨拶は「What are you building?」—エンジニアの実験場と化すシリコンバレーで、Helpfeelがナレッジに関するラボを始める理由🇺🇸
7月に始まる新たな挑戦の裏側を、CEO洛西と北米ディレクターBenが語り合いました。
ぜひ覧ください！
https://t.co/S2udzoIhuV

[ben foden @benfoden]

Merge muscle memory: Hire a coach for your agent.

Tons of top tier agents are sitting on the bench saying "Put me in coach."

If they could all play their part, you'd be unstoppable.

But are you confident you're the best coach for them?What does peak performance look like?

[ben foden @benfoden]

AI makes upskilling faster than ever. An entire generation may jump up the skill curve in 2026.

Like the internet, those that engage with it have a much broader base of experience than those who don't.

[ben foden @benfoden]

Resurrect Lost Virtue.

[ben foden @benfoden]

@VicVijayakumar Oh you gotta let it know. It often suggests a next step or valuable conclusion too

[ben foden @benfoden]

Burn out causes mediocrity. The tortoise and the hare.