Ben Lesh

Formerly Netflix, Google, and fin tech. Currently working in the AI space. Created plugins and MCP apps examples for OpenAI. RxJS project lead.

[Ben Lesh @BenLesh]

Opus thinks your MCP is dumb sometimes and won't use it.

Me: Blender 5.3 has this MCP tool

Opus: "The live connection tends to go in many small back-and-forth steps, each sending scene info and screenshots, which costs more tokens. The scripts also live in the repo, so any model can be rebuilt or tweaked later."

[Ben Lesh @BenLesh]

@DavidKPiano I find that Astra writes much much much better technical documentation and plans. Opus is faster and better at implementation. Sol is cheap and very correct with whatever it makes but it’s also 3X slower than opus.

I tend to switch back-and-forth a lot

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@devagrawal09 @jeflopo Just a quick glance at it, it looks like you could use the proposed signals API to build the SolidJS reactivity model. (which obviously has better features.)

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@devagrawal09 @jeflopo Oh. I had no idea. I haven’t really checked in on it in a couple years.

[Ben Lesh @BenLesh]

@devagrawal09 @jeflopo Maybe that’s what you guys were talking about though? 😅

In any case, standard bodies can take forever, and frequently don’t end up delivering anything. (sometimes for good reasons sometimes for…. Reasons.)

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@devagrawal09 @jeflopo There is a proposal right now in the TC39 for signals, which are basically what you are talking about. I advised on it during some of the early stages of a few years ago.

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@DavidKPiano @ahmetciftci @inngest @upstash @temporalio Anti-state-machine?

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@thekitze Get whatever surgery it recommends, obviously.

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@AdamRackis Datum dayum

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@CrowderSoup This is the first one I've seen that didn't have a record player next to the stairs (or that wasn't a McDonalds?)

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@southpolesteve "Welcome to Costco, I love you"

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Home Depot randomly started getting crazy errors. Deleting the Service Worker in Dev Tools was the only fix.

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@AdamRackis Lmfao. 100% of people have a vinyl turntable in the same spot.

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@joelhooks I swear to God, I did not feed your Image into it. It just looks very much the same.

[Ben Lesh @BenLesh]

“Design this room based on what you know about me”

[joel ⛈️ @joelhooks]

"Design this room based on what you know about me"

would

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@joelhooks Which printer do you have? I have a Snapmaker U1 and a Prusa CORE One. My Prusa was ass. lol. Loving the U1 though

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@AdamRackis

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@kenwheeler @dillon_mulroy Party when?

[Ben Lesh @BenLesh]

@the_ult_dev That’s super interesting! @_jessicasachs was there with me. I think she may have been tweeting photos at the time.

I was mostly just learning the game by watching. Haha. 😂

[Ben Lesh @BenLesh]

Things I learned in Ireland 🇮🇪

1. The people are EXTREMELY friendly.
2. Guinness tastes better there than it does in the US
3. I really like rugby. It’s a fantastic sport to watch.
4. Castles are rad. And there’s lots of them.
5. Halloween has a parade and fireworks in Derry.

[Ben Lesh @BenLesh]

@zyeutequebec Probably the number of large companies that had it listed in there open source license acknowledgements. But I guess I’ve seen it on PlayStation and in the BMW UI.

[Ben Lesh @BenLesh]

After criticism in the observable standards discussions about the relevance of RxJS, I threw hours and hours and tons of tokens at researching its impact.

I’ve estimated that RxJS is used by 435M to 1.44B end users per month.

Documented methodology is in the following post.