Ben Galbraith

Octodad and yet, surprisingly, younger than @dalmaer; lover of fine pies. Building, advising, parenting. Ex: Google, Walmart, Palm, Mozilla, Ajaxian, etc.

[Ben Galbraith @bgalbs]

Andrew and team are fantastic — huge opportunity to be part of something special.

[Raphael Schaad @raphaelschaad]

Spilling some beans 🤫 This very startup is actually looking for their first design engineer:

https://t.co/0wCaTeN0Av

It's an incredible opportunity, owning the product design end-to-end. They've identified that great design is essential for them.

Funnily, I've told the founder to *not* look for a "design engineer." I told him, the most cracked product designers are all AI-pilled and now working with code anyway. If that's you and you're remotely curious, highly rec to get in touch with the founder.

Oh and, did I mention, it's the Firebase founder?!

[Raphael Schaad @raphaelschaad]

Spilling some beans 🤫 This very startup is actually looking for their first design engineer:

https://t.co/0wCaTeN0Av

It's an incredible opportunity, owning the product design end-to-end. They've identified that great design is essential for them.

Funnily, I've told the founder to *not* look for a "design engineer." I told him, the most cracked product designers are all AI-pilled and now working with code anyway. If that's you and you're remotely curious, highly rec to get in touch with the founder.

Oh and, did I mention, it's the Firebase founder?!

[Ben Galbraith @bgalbs]

50 years later, exactly the same conversations still taking place. Fascinating.

https://t.co/hfkBYJxADx

[Ben Galbraith @bgalbs]

The annual pilgrimage with my best bud @dalmaer

[Ben Galbraith @bgalbs]

@bengoodger @GoogleLabs Dude! So excited for this man!

[Ben Galbraith @bgalbs]

Long-time dream. Big fan!

[Wes Bos @wesbos]

HTML in Canvas API is NUTS

[Tasklet @TaskletAI]

Introducing Instant Apps — your Tasklet agent can now build live, interactive apps for you on-demand.

Describe what you need & get the perfect custom UI in seconds — connected to your real, live data. 🧵

[Ben Galbraith @bgalbs]

I feel the paradox of choice so much more intensely when I’m building hobby projects with agents.

Because my own familiarity with a coding domain is no longer a useful razor at prioritizing, it’s very disorienting being able to do... anything!

[Andrew Lee @startupandrew]

https://t.co/q4j3xc79Rx

[Ben Galbraith @bgalbs]

Love this product.

So many skill directories around, and hard to know which skills are good, and then... how do you keep them updated in your local checkout?

The Tessl skills registry aims to solve these problems, and enable your agent to use code better.

[Tessl @tessl_io]

Agent skills are getting harder to manage.

Most teams still treat skills as static artifacts: markdown files, created or copied from repo to repo.

This quickly leads to debt, with skills growing stale and copies falling out of sync.

That's where Tessl comes in!
Today, we launched agent skills on Tessl 🎉

Tessl lets you treat skills like software, not snippets:
- Discover evaluated skills in the Tessl Registry
- Install and evaluate skills via CLI or from GitHub
- See how skills perform across agents and models
- Version, update, and evolve skills safely over time

Now you can discover evaluated skills in the Tessl Registry or install and test any skill from GitHub.

💻 npm i -g @tessl/cli && tessl skill search
🔗 Explore Tessl Registry: https://t.co/ZEjiNUKvK4

#agentskills #devtools #aidevtools

[Ben Galbraith @bgalbs]

@karpathy Have you checked out Home Assistant? Gives you a rich existing ecosystem and great Lutron support.

https://t.co/GShzC2yCWY

[Ben Galbraith @bgalbs]

I’ve been baking pies for decades and I can’t count how many things I learned in this 12 minute video. Fantastic, @altonbrown.

https://t.co/KbxtuzsQY0

[Ben Galbraith @bgalbs]

@dalmaer That’s one of my fave parts — it seems like a really good, authentic mock-up creator, and then you realize, nope! It’s a full React app.

[Ben Galbraith @bgalbs]

Eeep.

[Ben Galbraith @bgalbs]

TIL if you have a .env file with a value for ANTHROPIC_API_KEY, and you use Claude Code via its SDK (e.g., Conductor; Zed), Claude Code will _silently_ switch from using your fancy Max subscription to your API key.

https://t.co/vx7gVlCXvq

Fun!

[Ben Galbraith @bgalbs]

Love that Claude Code provided these thoughtful task estimates, perhaps as a reminder how much we humans are slower than it is.

(It finished each of these tasks in 3-5 minutes.)

[Ben Galbraith @bgalbs]

Never a good sign when https://t.co/cd9C1c8w5P complains that the payload from my todo list’s MCP server is too big. 😬

[Ben Galbraith @bgalbs]

@dalmaer Omfg huge improvement. Gimme a bundle and I’ll deploy it

[Ben Galbraith @bgalbs]

Fantastic team, fantastic product — congrats Ned!!!

[Ned Dwyer @nedwin]

Pumped to announce our $13m Series A for @greatquestionco as we democratize UX research at scale for companies like @brexHQ @asana and @ServiceNow