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Ben Vinegar
@bentlegen
Co-founder @modemdev. Before: founding engineer then VPE at @sentry. Builds Runs @devtoolsTO. 🇨🇦
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in hindsight we should have switched to @turbopuffer much earlier
we literally forgot our agent can generate images
when I look at the biggest mistakes we've made over the past year right up there is "rolled our own software" even if you can make a decent clone, the time maintenance is so onerous - I wish I had just swiped a credit card instead
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Can I just say how tired I am of these kinds of remarks? They're getting more and more common as the internet has become armchair experts on all software and businesses. We build best in class software and make it available completly free. No one else in our category does that. No one. Don't want it? Dont use it. Sentry will absolutely run just fine on 32gb of memory, but thats not even the point. Its complex. That complexity comes from nearly two decades of development. Some of it is avoidable, some of it isnt. This is why cloud services exist - because we can amoratize the cost and complexity vs spending every waking hour optimizing every small part of a system to run on random low powered VPS. "Rewrite in Rust" - you don't maintain the software, nor do you undrestand what that means. An important chunk of Sentry is already in Rust (which could be C++ or Go!). The rest makes absolutely no sense to even suggest that. No one wants to work on a user facing web service with Rust, waiting on compile times non-stop. Nor do our customers. They want a great product, and they want to keep seeing improvements to that product. Our time is spent making it actually better for our 100k customers, not optimizing for your single use case. There is always opportunity for improvement, but takes like this are both ignorant and entitled.
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Modem isn’t just for developers anymore. We've seen teams across every role use it to understand their customers, so we’re moving to .ai! Good thing @bentlegen registered both domains last year 😅
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We've moved! Modem is now available at Give your team's agents the power to find, fix, and follow up on every customer concern
Getting people to care about what you built remains arguably the hardest part of building software
Introducing TrellisWM: The Fractal Window Manager for MacOS Its how the desktop should have always been. Download at
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Anthropic merging 10x more code since May feels bonkers I can feel us going way faster (~2.5x since May), but that's not even close
Anthropic's code changes merged per day has 10x since May. 'Claude is able to autonomously iterate on research loops, micro-optimize complex programs, and build new services from the ground up at a speed and scale we haven’t seen before.'
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As an engineer I hated learning second-hand from other teams that users were struggling - often weeks after the fact I built Modem selfishly for me, to shortcut internal bureaucracy and get things done faster
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As an engineer I hated learning second-hand from other teams that users were struggling - often weeks after the fact I built Modem selfishly for me, to shortcut internal bureaucracy and get things done faster
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Watching an LLM just rip all-out on an autoresearch project is fascinating. Just thinking about all the human hours it would've taken to get this font file reduced by 5%... now available to you for the low cost of $7.82.
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hey @MarkJCarney make sure these guys get a few billi
The first-ever Canada Investment Summit kicks off today in Toronto.  Some of the largest investors in the world are here for a reason: they see our strength, they share our ambition, and they want to build big with us.
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Interesting to me that the consensus on here is that the entire frontier is lying. I can’t really recall the last time the consensus here was accurate. In fact, during times of volatility and noise it’s very often exactly wrong.
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many companies can barely stay on top of Discord - us included - especially on weekends but we set up @modemdev to make sure we don't drop the ball entirely happy to set this up for anyone's OSS community
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Capability vs. Safety resource allocation: Nuclear: 60/40 Aviation: 60/40 Medical devices: 20/80 AI: 99/1 Do I understand the situation correctly?
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It took writing a programming book, speaking at 20+ confs, leading eng at a billion-dollar startup, having some OSS projects people use, getting invited on podcasts, starting a company, hanging out with smart / successful people who seemed to think I knew what I was doing … … before accepting maybe it wasn’t all a fluke
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you don’t understand, i’m the world’s best imposter, absolutely world class imposter skills, a lifetime of developing them to be so convincing, i’ve somehow accumulated promotions, references, a career, and a body of work purely as supporting evidence for the bit.
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I resigned from @Sentry today. I spent the last year doing research on how to automatically fix issues after they acquired my company last May. They’re not acting responsibly. They’re racing straight toward self-healing software and gambling with drastically reducing the size of @datadoghq bills everywhere. No more thoughts below.
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got my first youtube hater feels great tbh, like I finally made it
If you want to play around with an early thing: you can now give us money and we give you tokens in return.
We're about to hit 20 data integrations (!) - each is isolated in its own @CloudflareDev worker(s) - await incoming data mostly via webhooks, some polling, one websockets - each processes events into Modem's ingest format & forwards to our main service/pipeline - they manage their own resiliency/recovery - all have staging envs, run E2E before prod
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Get an instant pulse on customer sentiment from every channel - bring your agent or use ours Now with support for Pylon, Plain, and Canny
🏛️ announcing hunk v0.22.0 - now w/ `hunk log` - TUI for reviewing git/jj history - quickly jump from commit → diff - OR multi-select a commit range - supports mouse + all colour themes also in this release: multi-line comments, lower memory usage, faster --watch, & more! 🔈
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