Ben Nevile

father of 3, husband of @amykaufman84, musician and CTO / builder. working on context engineering for dev agents.

[Ben Nevile @saoul]

Best framing of the agentic bottleneck I've seen yet. The fix that actually raises the ceiling is the one mentioned in passing: figure out how to delegate more and more judgment to the agent, starting with the "boring" 80%. That's why I'm building https://t.co/y69BmsRJlK.

[Addy Osmani @addyosmani]

https://t.co/0DyFIXJueI

[Ben Nevile @saoul]

I believe this is correct. The moat that will endure is aggregate data from all tenants. eg the law firm's system of record for their clients becomes redundant, but the expertise that can be acquired through aggregation of (anonymized) data of many firms is an agent skill moat

[Zain Hoda @zain_hoda]

https://t.co/jLDNmgG3fY

[Ben Nevile @saoul]

@trq212 @VictorTaelin I've had best results decomposing work to keep individual tasks within the context window. And even within that limit, success is more likely if you keep it tight. Check https://t.co/p9d5WaIKWW

[Ben Nevile @saoul]

@simonw my take away was that it is more token-efficient to implement algorithms in code+API than to do the same all in-model with tool calls, even if the code is immediately thrown away.

[Ben Nevile @saoul]

Another silly-productive week of product work powered by the context graph. I also had super valuable feedback sessions with a couple of early users that validated the platform as an organizing force within the AI coding landscape.
https://t.co/wSQj649X83

[Ben Nevile @saoul]

Weekly update: with the help of my context graph I completed 155 actions, +11,514/-3,194 lines of tightly calibrated, well-aimed code. Not AI slop. The context graph connects planning and execution into a self-improving loop.

More details here:
https://t.co/4G9uAXx0Ny

[Ben Nevile @saoul]

https://t.co/2fsXmkYjGF

[Ben Nevile @saoul]

@trq212 This is great, thank you! Is there a way for a plugin/MCP developer trigger this type of interactive question?

[Ben Nevile @saoul]

@naveennaidu_m makes a ton of sense. can't wait to onboard you into https://t.co/p9d5WaIKWW soon!

[Ben Nevile @saoul]

@naveennaidu_m @every Multiple times a day
1. I finish dictating, lift up finger
2. Before paste, I inadvertently click somewhere else, or focus is grabbed by some other window
How about just automatically putting the text into my clipboard? Or at least having that as an optional behaviour.

[Ben Nevile @saoul]

I'm loving @every's Monologue. It's a force multiplier that you can apply all day, everywhere.
1. A kb shortcut records you speaking into any text input
2. recording and a screenshot are used to generate and paste a summary that's smarter/more precise than what you actually said.

[Ben Nevile @saoul]

hey @v0 , when I download my code or run the npx install command, timestamps for files are in the future. timezone issue? cost me some debug time, it flummoxes claude code or any other tool that checks timestamps for freshness. please fix!

[Ben Nevile @saoul]

@naveennaidu_m @every sure, notes about UX friction around copy-to-clipboard?
- icon was unfamiliar - maybe survey other apps?
- tooltip is slow to load, should come up almost immediately
- not clear what formatted vs raw text is in this context and it's a decision I don't want to have to make

[Ben Nevile @saoul]

current vibe @claude_code

[Ben Nevile @saoul]

Software engineering in 2025:

[Ben Nevile @saoul]

@GaryMarcus @davidzmorris Disagree! One basic example of pure AI innovation is move 37. It became famous because it was highly unconventional, described as "creative" and "unique", and was considered a move that no human player would have made at that point in the game. Want to make a ten-year bet?

[Ben Nevile @saoul]

ZORK all day long

[Ben Nevile @saoul]

@karpathy Gamma

[Ben Nevile @saoul]

@GaryMarcus intelligent humans scraped their language from
other intelligent humans

[amykaufman @amykaufman84]

Women in the U.S. who are pregnant or who have recently given birth are more likely to be murdered than to die from obstetric causes.
Homicide deaths among pregnant women are more prevalent than deaths from hypertensive disorders, hemorrhage, or sepsis.
https://t.co/WnG5BQbGey