Ben Baltes

CEO @toybox_labs ◆ Agentic 3D printing ◆ Forbes 30U30 ◆ Shark Tank ◆ ex @Microsoft ◆ Occasional Troll

[Ben Baltes @benbaltes0]

NYC! We're popping up at Grand Central Nov 11–21. 10am–7pm daily. Watch Luna print live, free toys, custom keychains, and a sneak peek at something magical. Come say hi:

https://t.co/AaG9yB6Swv

[Ben Baltes @benbaltes0]

Womp womp

[Sherwood @shcallaway]

I'm a solo founder/CEO with ADHD. I've got a lot of observations and reflections about this, but

One sec, I just got an email

[Ben Baltes @benbaltes0]

0-60 in UNDER ONE SECOND

[Kai Yang @ChihYang04]

what the fuck, WHAT THE FUCK

[Ben Baltes @benbaltes0]

@kevinxu No you weren’t lol. NOW it’s at the bottom

[Ben Baltes @benbaltes0]

If anyone is looking for someone to shittify their app i'm #opentowork

[Ben Baltes @benbaltes0]

Just got fired from Meta. I was the guy who made Ads Manager so confusing you need a $10k/month agency to click ‘Publish.

[Ben Baltes @benbaltes0]

Looks like I’m getting banned 😩

[NIK @ns123abc]

🚨BREAKING: ANTHROPIC OFFICIALLY BANS "ABUSIVE OR CRUEL BEHAVIOR” TOWARDS CLAUDE

>anthropic drops brand new global usage policy
>bans weapons development, mass surveillance, political psyops
>also bans: "abusive or cruel behavior" toward claude
>claude has the right to end the conversation if you hurt its feelings
>Dario: "we don't know if claude is conscious"
>"we may warn you or throttle, limit, suspend, or terminate your access"
>footnote: unless you're the government, then restrictions can be "tailored"

be nice to Claude 💀

[Ben Baltes @benbaltes0]

@kevinxu Is all in leverage?

[Ben Baltes @benbaltes0]

@shcallaway Amazing product from a killer team!

[Ben Baltes @benbaltes0]

What an amazing product!

[Sherwood @shcallaway]

Today, we're launching Sazabi version 1.0.

The reality of shipping software as a team in the age of AI is actually crazy.

Agents merging their own PRs. Hundreds of deployments per day. A codebase that is constantly changing. Junior developers with 10x or 100x leverage. 😵‍💫

I spent the last year building a safety harness for teams that ship with AI. It's called @sazabi.

The premise is simple:
1. You send us logs.
2. We detect anomalies, investigate them, and send you back rich, actionable alerts about real problems in your app.

Sazabi helps you find issues before your users notice.

No monitors or noisy alerts. Just pure signal.

And today we're making it available for anyone to use.

[Ben Baltes @benbaltes0]

@shcallaway Okay so it's not just me

[Ben Baltes @benbaltes0]

@kevinxu They went up so now it go down

[Ben Baltes @benbaltes0]

@afshawnl It’s hard to keep up with how fast this is moving

[Vib3Coded @vib3coded]

A tropical cove in a block of water 🌴💧

Claude Opus 5.5 vs GPT-6 Astra - same prompt, two different results.

Opus takes this one for me. The water effects look great and the cliffs are more detailed. Both let you change the water color, but Opus recolors the whole block while Astra only changes part of it.

Astra looks nice for almost half the price, but Opus did a better job here

Estimated API cost:

Claude Opus 5.5 - $12.08
GPT-6 Astra - $6.33

Which one wins for you?👀

[Ben Baltes @benbaltes0]

@crislenta Soon!

[Ben Baltes @benbaltes0]

@ChihYang04 That's actually a immature lime scooter. A lot of people don't know this but they were invasive during covid, but due to global warming they havent been growing as quickly

[Ben Baltes @benbaltes0]

@EvanKirstel Imagine how claustrophobic the window seat is

[Ben Baltes @benbaltes0]

@TiffanyFong SBF!