Ben Hanzl
@benhanzl.bsky.social
he/him; Engineering Manager at Honeycomb.io; Previously IZEA and Nordstrom Trunk Club. Always learning (mostly about tech).
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Ben Hanzl
@benhanzl.bsky.social
· Nov 19
Hello 👋
I'm Ben, an Engineering Manager at Honeycomb.io (and a few other startups prior). I'm here to learn from you and occasionally share my thoughts about tech and leadership.
🏡 Living in Charlotte, NC.
👷 Work at @honeycomb.bsky.social
✍️ One day, I will write at benhanzl.com
#introduction
I'm Ben, an Engineering Manager at Honeycomb.io (and a few other startups prior). I'm here to learn from you and occasionally share my thoughts about tech and leadership.
🏡 Living in Charlotte, NC.
👷 Work at @honeycomb.bsky.social
✍️ One day, I will write at benhanzl.com
#introduction
Reposted by Ben Hanzl
Honeycomb is proud to be named a Visionary in the 2025 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Observability Platforms.
Thank you to our customers and community for pushing us forward every day.
buff.ly/qMhHOTd
#Honeycombio #GartnerMagicQuadrant #Observability
Thank you to our customers and community for pushing us forward every day.
buff.ly/qMhHOTd
#Honeycombio #GartnerMagicQuadrant #Observability
July 10, 2025 at 4:23 PM
Honeycomb is proud to be named a Visionary in the 2025 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Observability Platforms.
Thank you to our customers and community for pushing us forward every day.
buff.ly/qMhHOTd
#Honeycombio #GartnerMagicQuadrant #Observability
Thank you to our customers and community for pushing us forward every day.
buff.ly/qMhHOTd
#Honeycombio #GartnerMagicQuadrant #Observability
Reposted by Ben Hanzl
Here's video, slides and a detailed annotated transcript from my talk at this week's AI Engineer World's Fair conference in San Francisco - "The last year six months in LLMs, illustrated by pelicans on bicycles" simonwillison.net/2025/Jun/6/s...
The last year six months in LLMs, illustrated by pelicans on bicycles
I presented an invited keynote at the AI Engineer World’s Fair in San Francisco this week. This is my third time speaking at the event—here’s my talks from October 2023 …
simonwillison.net
June 6, 2025 at 8:45 PM
Here's video, slides and a detailed annotated transcript from my talk at this week's AI Engineer World's Fair conference in San Francisco - "The last year six months in LLMs, illustrated by pelicans on bicycles" simonwillison.net/2025/Jun/6/s...
Reposted by Ben Hanzl
One interesting outcome of building AI applications/products (those on top of LLMs):
o11y (observability) becomes SO important! You need to monitor, monitor, monitor; alert, alert alert!!
This is b/c LLMs are nondeterministic: so you can forget automated testing.
Big change
o11y (observability) becomes SO important! You need to monitor, monitor, monitor; alert, alert alert!!
This is b/c LLMs are nondeterministic: so you can forget automated testing.
Big change
May 6, 2025 at 1:58 PM
One interesting outcome of building AI applications/products (those on top of LLMs):
o11y (observability) becomes SO important! You need to monitor, monitor, monitor; alert, alert alert!!
This is b/c LLMs are nondeterministic: so you can forget automated testing.
Big change
o11y (observability) becomes SO important! You need to monitor, monitor, monitor; alert, alert alert!!
This is b/c LLMs are nondeterministic: so you can forget automated testing.
Big change
Reposted by Ben Hanzl
We’re hiring an AI engineer on my team. We move quickly, work with an experiment-first mindset, and everyone is expected to have product-minded thinking.
LMK if interested!
job-boards.greenhouse.io/honeycomb/jo...
LMK if interested!
job-boards.greenhouse.io/honeycomb/jo...
Senior AI Engineer II
Remote - United States
job-boards.greenhouse.io
April 29, 2025 at 3:27 PM
We’re hiring an AI engineer on my team. We move quickly, work with an experiment-first mindset, and everyone is expected to have product-minded thinking.
LMK if interested!
job-boards.greenhouse.io/honeycomb/jo...
LMK if interested!
job-boards.greenhouse.io/honeycomb/jo...
Reposted by Ben Hanzl
The best customers are ones that make your product better. Huge thanks to the @honeycomb.io team for co-designing new PagerDuty insights with us! Special shout-outs to @ferd.ca and @another-engineer.bsky.social in particular. 🙏
@honeycomb.io needed to track and report the human impact of on-call alerts.
Together, we co-designed a solution that cut their reporting time by 90% and provided transparent reporting on the impact of alerts.
Read here: www.multitudes.com/success-stor...
Together, we co-designed a solution that cut their reporting time by 90% and provided transparent reporting on the impact of alerts.
Read here: www.multitudes.com/success-stor...
April 23, 2025 at 11:40 PM
The best customers are ones that make your product better. Huge thanks to the @honeycomb.io team for co-designing new PagerDuty insights with us! Special shout-outs to @ferd.ca and @another-engineer.bsky.social in particular. 🙏
Reposted by Ben Hanzl
AI can help us if and only if we use it to augment our judgment instead of replacing our judgment.
I published a piece today with @pcarter.bsky.social on the state of AI + observability in the market -- how it intersects with improving models, developing with LLMs, and dealing with a mass influx of code of, shall we say, "unknown provenance."
www.honeycomb.io/blog/observa...
www.honeycomb.io/blog/observa...
Observability in the Age of AI
How will Honeycomb leverage AI in 2025? Find out from Charity Majors and Phillip Carter.
www.honeycomb.io
December 12, 2024 at 12:13 AM
AI can help us if and only if we use it to augment our judgment instead of replacing our judgment.
Reposted by Ben Hanzl
if you have a @github.com profile, can i ask you to update it with your @bsky.app handle? 🙏
👉 it enables some very cool integrations, like auto curated feeds and starter packs for contributors and tech
👉 it enables some very cool integrations, like auto curated feeds and starter packs for contributors and tech
November 23, 2024 at 1:53 PM
if you have a @github.com profile, can i ask you to update it with your @bsky.app handle? 🙏
👉 it enables some very cool integrations, like auto curated feeds and starter packs for contributors and tech
👉 it enables some very cool integrations, like auto curated feeds and starter packs for contributors and tech
Hello 👋
I'm Ben, an Engineering Manager at Honeycomb.io (and a few other startups prior). I'm here to learn from you and occasionally share my thoughts about tech and leadership.
🏡 Living in Charlotte, NC.
👷 Work at @honeycomb.bsky.social
✍️ One day, I will write at benhanzl.com
#introduction
I'm Ben, an Engineering Manager at Honeycomb.io (and a few other startups prior). I'm here to learn from you and occasionally share my thoughts about tech and leadership.
🏡 Living in Charlotte, NC.
👷 Work at @honeycomb.bsky.social
✍️ One day, I will write at benhanzl.com
#introduction
November 19, 2024 at 6:56 PM
Hello 👋
I'm Ben, an Engineering Manager at Honeycomb.io (and a few other startups prior). I'm here to learn from you and occasionally share my thoughts about tech and leadership.
🏡 Living in Charlotte, NC.
👷 Work at @honeycomb.bsky.social
✍️ One day, I will write at benhanzl.com
#introduction
I'm Ben, an Engineering Manager at Honeycomb.io (and a few other startups prior). I'm here to learn from you and occasionally share my thoughts about tech and leadership.
🏡 Living in Charlotte, NC.
👷 Work at @honeycomb.bsky.social
✍️ One day, I will write at benhanzl.com
#introduction
Reposted by Ben Hanzl
November 9, 2024 at 2:33 PM
Reposted by Ben Hanzl
Wow SO MANY interesting people tech folks in the replies.
And even more useful thematic “starter packs” linked in replies (eg Android engineers, eng managers, infrastructure engineers, geospatial engineers etc).
If you are looking for interesting techies to follow: look at replies 👇
And even more useful thematic “starter packs” linked in replies (eg Android engineers, eng managers, infrastructure engineers, geospatial engineers etc).
If you are looking for interesting techies to follow: look at replies 👇
I'd love to follow more software engineers (and folks working closely with devs: e.g. in product, design, data etc)
My problem: it's hard to find these people! And many devs don't (yet) have details in their bios.
If this is you, can you please add a reply and a short description of what you do?
My problem: it's hard to find these people! And many devs don't (yet) have details in their bios.
If this is you, can you please add a reply and a short description of what you do?
November 1, 2024 at 1:28 PM
Wow SO MANY interesting people tech folks in the replies.
And even more useful thematic “starter packs” linked in replies (eg Android engineers, eng managers, infrastructure engineers, geospatial engineers etc).
If you are looking for interesting techies to follow: look at replies 👇
And even more useful thematic “starter packs” linked in replies (eg Android engineers, eng managers, infrastructure engineers, geospatial engineers etc).
If you are looking for interesting techies to follow: look at replies 👇