Ben Harvatine

MIT engineer accruing kids, cars, & acreage in the mountains of NH // Past & future founder // Odds & ends, bits & atoms @palantirtech

[Ben Harvatine @bdharva]

@KauffmansMoobs 😘

[Ben Harvatine @bdharva]

Saturday in the mountains, Sunday on the beach, another full weekend of New Hampshire adventures

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@BellicoseBestie @jeremykauffman Used to get 20+ in a day, but strategic mowing (and a little bit of chemical warfare) keeps them in check at least in the immediate area around the camp

[Ben Harvatine @bdharva]

Building a life. Building a family. Building a home. Building our future. In New Hampshire.

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Needs more bunting 🇺🇸🦅

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@staysaasy Same https://t.co/nPzkYzKFMG

[Ben Harvatine @bdharva]

Fly on the wall at a family wedding listening to people talk about AI at work… everyone is being promised a magic wand, handed a wrench, using it like a hammer, and then calling it a shitty screwdriver.

[Ben Harvatine @bdharva]

Babe wake up KJP is NH posting again

[▼ Kiel James Patrick @KJP]

If you want to hate America watch the news, if you want to love America drive across it. 🇺🇸

[Ben Harvatine @bdharva]

Fly on the wall at a family wedding listening to people talk about AI at work… everyone is being promised a magic wand, handed a wrench, using it like a hammer, and then calling it a shitty screwdriver.

[Ben Harvatine @bdharva]

People would probably be more receptive to AI data center builds if they were also a Buc-ee’s

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@live_free_603 *slaps roof* this bad boy can fit so many learing centers

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@Mopar

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Note to self: a Claude extension where you call it Cletus. It's still sycophantic, but instead of "you're absolutely right" it says "hell yeah brother".

[Ben Harvatine @bdharva]

@luke_metro while openai drops their next round of “you can just do things” ads

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@petewilz Mencius Moltbug

[Ben Harvatine @bdharva]

Urbitcels must be seething over everyone suddenly on board with the vision when it's Claude on a Mac Mini. If they'd called it moldbot people would've been all over it.

[Ben Harvatine @bdharva]

@andrewmccalip If you're thoughtful and creative, you can do some really powerful stuff with either... but then most people just make cheap useless crap

[Ben Harvatine @bdharva]

Modern equivalent of sending kids into coal mines -- new grad SWEs digging around in dark pits, covered in the soot of legacy VBA scripts that are older than them

[unusual_whales @unusual_whales]

JUST IN: Anthropic engineers have spent six months at Goldman building autonomous systems for time-intensive, high-volume back-office work

[Ben Harvatine @bdharva]

I've been articulating the productivity factor (directionally if not precisely) as something in the neighborhood of 10^n with n zeroed around +1SD.

Treating that zero point as the laziness/leverage divide. Compounding above it, atrophy below it.

[staysaasy @staysaasy]

IMO the thing that's confusing people about productivity gains from AI coding is that it's totally non-linear:
* Non-programmers (0x engineers) are now 0.8x engineers
* 1x engineers are now 1.2x
* 2x engineers are now 4x
* 10x engineers (they exist) are now 1000x engineers

[Ben Harvatine @bdharva]

"Talk to representative. Talk. To. Representative. TALK TO REPRESENTATIVE!!!!" my wife screams into the phone as she tries to call and ask me to pick up milk on the way home. The future is bright 😎

[taimur @taimurabdaal]

Happens to the best of us

Clawdbot showed up in my wife's DMs with helpful suggestions when our baby was screaming in the middle of the night

[Ben Harvatine @bdharva]

When people are impressed to find I out I was on a 30U30 list, I like to point out that it's much more impressive that I still haven't been indicted (yet)

[Alex Cohen @anothercohen]

Forbes 30 under 30 has the most incredible fraud hit rate of all time