Alex Benke

Techie with a passion for personal finance and more recently, AI. VP AI @RidgelineApps, ex @Betterment, ex JPMorgan, ex CFP. (Excited! I can code again!)

[Alex Benke @alexbenke]

I'm increasingly interested in "best model for the job" optimization, and I agree that open-source models will play an essential role. I usually think of this as a cost vs accuracy game. I like this bigger-picture angle: it preserves capacity for frontier-level work.

[Jensen Huang @JensenHuang]

For my first post, I’m sharing a letter @NVIDIA signed on why open models matter.

AI will transform every industry, power every company, and be built by every country.

Open models strengthen safety and cybersecurity, accelerate innovation and diffusion, and enable sovereignty.

The world needs both frontier closed models and frontier open models.

https://t.co/AUKzoQ5Ikb

[Alex Benke @alexbenke]

@toddsaunders Lesson 1 of building good products is "what the customer asks for is not what they actually want or need", so while this is valuable because faster prototypes help ideation, taking those directly to your actual product is a recipe for a horrible product.

[Alex Benke @alexbenke]

Claude Code limits are like screen time for adult nerds

[Yasmine Khosrowshahi @yasminekho]

I distilled my 4 years of marketing lessons into minimalistic visuals.

1. Sell Benefits. Not features.

[Alex Benke @alexbenke]

@SoFi I’m very frustrated with you guys. please give me a method to contact you so I can reset my password. You keep sending me backup withholding notifications but I can’t login, and can’t get support without logging in, and your reset password doesn’t work without my lost auth

[Alex Benke @alexbenke]

@ChipotleTweets I love chipotle and I really wish I didn’t hate going to the one in my town. The location in Westfield NJ must be horribly understaffed because it is always disgusting. Tables are regularly covered in old rice and spills. Today had trash everywhere.

[Alex Benke @alexbenke]

"The biggest decision you make daily is what to focus on."

— A tiny thought in the @farnamstreet weekly newsletter. https://t.co/i5wXrn2k58

[Alex Benke @alexbenke]

@MousCase what's up with your shipping and support? No response or shipping details after 6 days??

[Alex Benke @alexbenke]

I figured out this was due to https://t.co/q2gpXEfsgi not recognizing the Gmail PDF printed ticket receipt. I uploaded a JPG instead.

[Alex Benke @alexbenke]

@united I cannot submit my lost bag claim due to this error on the doc upload page: "String or binary data would be truncated". This was also reported by others: https://t.co/GEE1mmalWk
How can I fix it?

[mercedes @babyxcar]

@MBAN55122538 @quangVFX @united @united is there a resolution for this? i keep getting this error message even though i completed all the fields and have met the file size limits.

[Brian Feroldi @BrianFeroldi]

15 images every investor needs to memorize:

1: This chart by Jeremy Siegel

[Alex Benke @alexbenke]

@daniel_egan Great to experience and also recognize joy! Just beware what @BreneBrown calls foreboding joy https://t.co/bKzsXFuO4O

[Alex Benke @alexbenke]

POV: No one person should run Twitter. Operate it as a #DAO! Maybe @jack will be interested again!

[Alex Benke @alexbenke]

@MichaelKitces Glad to see improvements here. Incumbent players need to catch up. Noting that the left side of RC’s is very reminiscent of Bettement visuals for projection and pie circa 2018. But charts alone won’t win or lose the client. It’s all about how it’s presented.

[Alex Benke @alexbenke]

@Equifax why don’t you have two factor authentication?

[Alex Benke @alexbenke]

@cyeslami If you calculate the theoretical benefit of bid ask spread diffs, tax diffs, rebal diffs and project that over some time period, you’ll get a dollar value for your portfolio. Then stare at that and see if it was with the time each year you put into separating (or paying someone)

[Alex Benke @alexbenke]

@cyeslami Hey Cyrus, great thinking and writing. Don’t forget convenience though! If you were to do the math on the cost differences you outline (followup thread??) I wonder how you or others would compare it to the personal time and mental energy costs of managing more “stuff”.

[Alex Benke @alexbenke]

@GovMurphy What is being done about the DMV volumes? License expiring and I need to get a RealID by October. Cannot get a DMV appointment anywhere in NJ. Hotline is not accepting phone calls. Help?

[Alex Benke @alexbenke]

@tferriss Have you seen psychedelics used in research for spinal cord injury patients, like my brother? Check out his personal account of the effects: https://t.co/9B7CNaFQwq

[Alex Benke @alexbenke]

@cyeslami @Betterment Dude, so much awesomeness in the product because of you. Great to work with you for so many years. Let’s catch up soon.