Ben

Co-Founder & Product @Ledgy, Physics @ETH

[Ben @bebinoy]

New usefulness for an IMAP client, @mailbird mcp allows me to manage all email accounts with one agent, even if they don't have an mcp themselves 😎

[Ben @bebinoy]

I love @claudeai Code /remote-control 🙌

My workflow is now mostly: machine stays at home plugged in and always awake. I regularly dictate and send it new things to do from my phone while on the go.

Feels very creative, ideas just keep flowing into the product all the time.

[Ben @bebinoy]

I used to pay for @rememberthemilk for task management and @sanebox to tidy up my inbox.

Now my personal ted lasso assistant does both for me with a 10x better experience and I'm saving money (well, paying anthropic instead...).

Many of those productivity tools will suffer!

[Ben @bebinoy]

I regularly use voice in and out with @claudeai (dictate and then audio play button under the response), but voice playback often simply doesn't seem to work, really annoying.

Should fix that before their IPO 😂

[Ben @bebinoy]

Related: I'm surprised how little Claude Code trusts Claude models having good judgement.

It seems to try to ringfence the model super hard, asking for user input at every turn.

Had to push it hard and give it explicit principles to make it "model positive".

[Ben @bebinoy]

I'm surprised how conservative claude code is when it comes to REMOVING code and proposing more ambitious fixes that change behaviour slightly in favour of a more generalised solution.

It seems to prefer small edge case fixes.

Bad from a product perspective!

[Ben @bebinoy]

For that I gave it tools to query weather, wind and wave forecast, and spot lists, from public APIs, plus some skill files I'm now tuning to make it as useful as possible.

Still work in progress!

[Ben @bebinoy]

Nice, my personal assistant now proactivity let's me know if kite and surf spots around me have good conditions 🏄🪁

https://t.co/ekIserGpq2

[Ben @bebinoy]

@FlySWISS Worked to a point, but then…
Seems like someone started vibe coding bugs into your system?

[Ben @bebinoy]

"Application cannot be loaded due to a basic error!"

That's a great user experience @FlySWISS 🤣

[Ben @bebinoy]

Claude's estimates on how long sth takes are funny. Measures in days, probably trained on data how long this would take a human developer to do. You say "go", and one hour later everything is done 😂

[Ben @bebinoy]

@FlySWISS That's nice, didn't expect a reply! I clicked on the link in the email "Check in now conveniently with your Travel ID" for an upcoming trip. Then bot check, then this error.

[Ben @bebinoy]

My Ted agent routinely fails at bot checks, very annoying. The web isn't built for agents yet.

[Ben @bebinoy]

This is an interesting move, a bit like what @GiveDirectly does with cash, but for equity, very democratizing.

How would the world look if Google founders, Stripe founders, Anthropic founders, etc did this?

But also: How would this work technically and legally?

[World of Statistics @stats_feed]

Elon said he’ll give one SpaceX share to every American kid next year. Rough math:

~72 million kids under 18
~$146 per share (recent SPCX price)

Total gift: about $10.5 billion worth of stock.

First of many. 🚀

(Numbers are estimates based on Census child population trends and current public trading price)

[Ben @bebinoy]

Pretty sick, but also a bit weird, "her" movie vibe

Her movie trailer: https://t.co/f5bkSC6Nna

[Carlo @carloAI]

Introducing Interface, the primary hardware for the agent era.

Interface lets you control all your agents from your hand.

$99 for early adopters. Ships in January.

[Ben @bebinoy]

@heyneighbor Ted, open source:

https://t.co/oKyWWm9Pqr

[Ben @bebinoy]

Built my own @instinct inspired personal assistant with Ted Lasso personality, using @signalapp cli and @claudeai agent sdk, in a few days.

I can send it voice notes, and it can reply in Ted's voice 🍪 Plus everything else an assistant needs!

https://t.co/MUEZcNCMme

[Ben @bebinoy]

Thinking of buying a mac mini to run a personal agent connected to all my tools, potentially trying out open source models. Worth it?

[Ben @bebinoy]

Would need to teach the surf assistant (via the right tools and skills) how to read wind and weather forecast like a kiter would.

Would add wave surfing forecast too 🌊

[Ben @bebinoy]

Thinking of abstracting it further
- core agent: heartbeat, memory mngmt, approval judge, context mngmt
- profiles driven by skills and tools: Ted personal assistant for now, kitesurf scout next
- messenger interface: signal now, others possible

Converging to @openclaw? 😅

[Ben @bebinoy]

Built my own @instinct inspired personal assistant with Ted Lasso personality, using @signalapp cli and @claudeai agent sdk, in a few days.

I can send it voice notes, and it can reply in Ted's voice 🍪 Plus everything else an assistant needs!

https://t.co/MUEZcNCMme

[Ben @bebinoy]

Kitesurf scout idea:

Ted agent telling me proactively if there's good wind and weather conditions at spots closeby soon and my calendar is free 🪁 🏄‍♂️

Anyone else wants/needs this?