Ben Damman

Former  & White House software engineer ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[Ben Damman @typesend]

Historians will note that 2026 marked the year 1 AE — the first full year of the Agentic Era. Those of us alive to witness it mostly used it to have AI fix our TypeScript errors.

[Ben Damman @typesend]

@grepmoney as the prophecy has foretold

[Aryan @justbyte_]

This looks accurate 😂😀

[Ben Damman @typesend]

when you don't create things, you become defined by your tastes rather than ability. your tastes only narrow & exclude people. so create.
— @_why The Lucky Stiff

[Pankaj @the2ndfloorguy]

i hooked my whoop to my work calendar to find which coworker gives me the most stress 🚨

thanks to fable, I reverse engineered whoop to pull per minute heart rate. nd matched spikes with cal events and attendees

I now have a leaderboard and I think about it daily.

few info masked for obvious reasons ;)

[jeffypoo @grepmoney]

They already showed their cards. The fact that they were willing to do this in the first place, in the open, without even considering how it would be perceived externally says so much about what is going inside Anthropic. It's a cult.

[Bojan Tunguz @tunguz]

Anthropic really takes us for idiots.

[Ronan Berder @hunvreus]

Just bought my ticket to @BigSkyDevCon. Flew all the way to Montana from Singapore last year for it. It
s one of the very few conferences I still want to go to.

[Andrej Karpathy @karpathy]

Personal update: I've joined Anthropic. I think the next few years at the frontier of LLMs will be especially formative. I am very excited to join the team here and get back to R&D. I remain deeply passionate about education and plan to resume my work on it in time.

[Ben Damman @typesend]

Mediocre UX and most bugs aren’t caused by bad code, they're caused by insufficiently understood problems/opportunities.

[JT @jiratickets]

boomers sending DMs to AI-generated women on instagram

[Ben Damman @typesend]

I hope this doesn't sound too dramatic but I don't think a loving God would allow us to create LinkedIn

https://t.co/2kh9yRBARA

[Paul Bohm @paulbohm]

If your startup does not have a UUID microservice you’re ngmi

[Ben Damman @typesend]

@powerbottomdad1 🫶🏼

[Ben Damman @typesend]

My screen time would kill a large Victorian adult.

[José Valim @josevalim]

Some of the responses say "coding agents are great for my web app, therefore software engineering is indeed going away", as if the whole purpose of programming and software engineering is to build web products.

Would you trust your medical records to a vibe coded database?

Would you board a plane in which its systems are the outcome of software engineering practices fully managed by AI?

Would you trust the safety of your servers and your finances to operating systems where handwritten code is not allowed?

Would you ship your code using a compiler implemented in a month by a fleet of coding agents?