Ben Pryke
@benpryke.bsky.social
Lead software engineer, entrepreneur, CTO of Maeva, and social exercise addict 🧗🏊🤸♂️
The internet is becoming lonely now that people are asking LLMs their questions.
When the LLM cannot answer your question, where do you turn?
When the LLM cannot answer your question, where do you turn?
November 6, 2025 at 11:39 PM
The internet is becoming lonely now that people are asking LLMs their questions.
When the LLM cannot answer your question, where do you turn?
When the LLM cannot answer your question, where do you turn?
*if they wish to unlock messages
August 30, 2025 at 11:49 PM
*if they wish to unlock messages
Bluesky has locked up UK adults' private messages and is forcing users to share their private identity information with a US-based third party.
Needless to say, it is dangerous to share your identity documents with companies online and should be avoided.
The OSA is bitterly confused legislation.
Needless to say, it is dangerous to share your identity documents with companies online and should be avoided.
The OSA is bitterly confused legislation.
August 30, 2025 at 11:48 PM
Bluesky has locked up UK adults' private messages and is forcing users to share their private identity information with a US-based third party.
Needless to say, it is dangerous to share your identity documents with companies online and should be avoided.
The OSA is bitterly confused legislation.
Needless to say, it is dangerous to share your identity documents with companies online and should be avoided.
The OSA is bitterly confused legislation.
I reckon the fans on my laptop have spun in the region of one billion times each. ONE BILLION 😳
August 30, 2025 at 11:37 PM
I reckon the fans on my laptop have spun in the region of one billion times each. ONE BILLION 😳
Davinci Resolve is so bad at memory management
August 25, 2025 at 2:49 PM
Davinci Resolve is so bad at memory management
Today in words not on NYT Spelling Bee: laminar
July 21, 2025 at 9:20 PM
Today in words not on NYT Spelling Bee: laminar
WeTransfer's parent company boasts a bunch of AI work on its website. It would be no surprise if they were planning to do more with the content shared via the service.
Their rollback of the terms showed no integrity and has further angered a lot of users.
How not to do PR...
Their rollback of the terms showed no integrity and has further angered a lot of users.
How not to do PR...
July 17, 2025 at 4:29 PM
WeTransfer's parent company boasts a bunch of AI work on its website. It would be no surprise if they were planning to do more with the content shared via the service.
Their rollback of the terms showed no integrity and has further angered a lot of users.
How not to do PR...
Their rollback of the terms showed no integrity and has further angered a lot of users.
How not to do PR...
There is also a 100% chance that I'll lose respect for your brand. If I don't know your brand, my respect will go negative.
July 17, 2025 at 4:25 PM
There is also a 100% chance that I'll lose respect for your brand. If I don't know your brand, my respect will go negative.
If your website uses legitimate interest cookies, there's a very high probability that I will bounce.
July 17, 2025 at 4:24 PM
If your website uses legitimate interest cookies, there's a very high probability that I will bounce.
I did not believe this post could be real so I had to go check. Wow. What's with the legs?! 😂
If they were genuine they'd update the Ts&Cs instead of just posting on socials.
If they were genuine they'd update the Ts&Cs instead of just posting on socials.
July 16, 2025 at 11:31 PM
I did not believe this post could be real so I had to go check. Wow. What's with the legs?! 😂
If they were genuine they'd update the Ts&Cs instead of just posting on socials.
If they were genuine they'd update the Ts&Cs instead of just posting on socials.
WeTransfer just invalidated their own value proposition.
It's no longer a secure way to transfer files.
Suicidal business move?
It's no longer a secure way to transfer files.
Suicidal business move?
July 16, 2025 at 3:08 PM
WeTransfer just invalidated their own value proposition.
It's no longer a secure way to transfer files.
Suicidal business move?
It's no longer a secure way to transfer files.
Suicidal business move?
Nice article from Rob Napier on how to think about and use LLMs
cocoaphony.micro.blog/2025/06/16/t...
cocoaphony.micro.blog/2025/06/16/t...
Rob Napier - TIL:AI. Thoughts on AI
I use AI a lot for work, pretty much all day every day. I use coding assistants and custom agents I’ve built. I use AI to help code review changes, dig into bugs, and keep track of my projects. I’ve f...
cocoaphony.micro.blog
June 23, 2025 at 4:51 PM
Nice article from Rob Napier on how to think about and use LLMs
cocoaphony.micro.blog/2025/06/16/t...
cocoaphony.micro.blog/2025/06/16/t...
Turned it off during ep 2 and watching the original instead.
What the sequel should have done:
* More close up models
* Focus on new discoveries like feathered dinos, skin colours, new species.
* Use 10 minute "how we know" segments at the end to cover the human aspects instead of interspersing it
What the sequel should have done:
* More close up models
* Focus on new discoveries like feathered dinos, skin colours, new species.
* Use 10 minute "how we know" segments at the end to cover the human aspects instead of interspersing it
June 7, 2025 at 7:46 PM
Turned it off during ep 2 and watching the original instead.
What the sequel should have done:
* More close up models
* Focus on new discoveries like feathered dinos, skin colours, new species.
* Use 10 minute "how we know" segments at the end to cover the human aspects instead of interspersing it
What the sequel should have done:
* More close up models
* Focus on new discoveries like feathered dinos, skin colours, new species.
* Use 10 minute "how we know" segments at the end to cover the human aspects instead of interspersing it
Disappointed by the new Walking with Dinosaurs.
* The dinosaurs with sharp teeth roar.
* They keep calling fossils bones.
* The animations are worse than the 22 year old originals.
* The narration is slow.
* The information density is low.
* The stories are quite uninteresting.
Low budget flop?
* The dinosaurs with sharp teeth roar.
* They keep calling fossils bones.
* The animations are worse than the 22 year old originals.
* The narration is slow.
* The information density is low.
* The stories are quite uninteresting.
Low budget flop?
June 7, 2025 at 7:35 PM
Disappointed by the new Walking with Dinosaurs.
* The dinosaurs with sharp teeth roar.
* They keep calling fossils bones.
* The animations are worse than the 22 year old originals.
* The narration is slow.
* The information density is low.
* The stories are quite uninteresting.
Low budget flop?
* The dinosaurs with sharp teeth roar.
* They keep calling fossils bones.
* The animations are worse than the 22 year old originals.
* The narration is slow.
* The information density is low.
* The stories are quite uninteresting.
Low budget flop?
The Hello Fresh number to text to opt out of mobile spam costs money. Is this dark pattern even legal?
June 2, 2025 at 3:30 PM
The Hello Fresh number to text to opt out of mobile spam costs money. Is this dark pattern even legal?
Ultimately, devs need to spend time with the system to understand it.
So I don't believe we're heading to a world of code reviewers.
So I don't believe we're heading to a world of code reviewers.
May 16, 2025 at 7:54 PM
Ultimately, devs need to spend time with the system to understand it.
So I don't believe we're heading to a world of code reviewers.
So I don't believe we're heading to a world of code reviewers.
Software devs can't spend their time solely reviewing code from AIs because:
* They won't be experts in the system if they haven't spent time writing it manually.
* Their skills will atrophy.
* They will struggle to fix issues the AI can't fix in code they didn't write.
* It's not fulfilling.
* They won't be experts in the system if they haven't spent time writing it manually.
* Their skills will atrophy.
* They will struggle to fix issues the AI can't fix in code they didn't write.
* It's not fulfilling.
May 16, 2025 at 7:54 PM
Software devs can't spend their time solely reviewing code from AIs because:
* They won't be experts in the system if they haven't spent time writing it manually.
* Their skills will atrophy.
* They will struggle to fix issues the AI can't fix in code they didn't write.
* It's not fulfilling.
* They won't be experts in the system if they haven't spent time writing it manually.
* Their skills will atrophy.
* They will struggle to fix issues the AI can't fix in code they didn't write.
* It's not fulfilling.
Life hack: when leaving the supermarket self-checkout, make eye contact with the person at the front of the queue so they know there's a free checkout.
The more people who do this, the less time you'll need to wait 🙌
The more people who do this, the less time you'll need to wait 🙌
May 16, 2025 at 7:50 PM
Life hack: when leaving the supermarket self-checkout, make eye contact with the person at the front of the queue so they know there's a free checkout.
The more people who do this, the less time you'll need to wait 🙌
The more people who do this, the less time you'll need to wait 🙌
Why are people suddenly saying "agentic AI" instead of "AI agents"?
The latter is:
* Shorter
* English
* ALREADY A THING
The latter is:
* Shorter
* English
* ALREADY A THING
May 13, 2025 at 11:09 AM
Why are people suddenly saying "agentic AI" instead of "AI agents"?
The latter is:
* Shorter
* English
* ALREADY A THING
The latter is:
* Shorter
* English
* ALREADY A THING
That's hardcore, well done!
May 12, 2025 at 8:45 PM
That's hardcore, well done!
How well does this work with new places?
May 12, 2025 at 8:39 PM
How well does this work with new places?
Companies putting products on supermarket shelves: smaller packaging is a selling point!
* Less packaging waste.
* Easier to ship.
* Easier to get home.
* Easier to store.
* Lower carbon footprint.
Supermarkets: work with brands on signage for new products so they don't have to be big to be seen.
* Less packaging waste.
* Easier to ship.
* Easier to get home.
* Easier to store.
* Lower carbon footprint.
Supermarkets: work with brands on signage for new products so they don't have to be big to be seen.
May 12, 2025 at 8:33 PM
Companies putting products on supermarket shelves: smaller packaging is a selling point!
* Less packaging waste.
* Easier to ship.
* Easier to get home.
* Easier to store.
* Lower carbon footprint.
Supermarkets: work with brands on signage for new products so they don't have to be big to be seen.
* Less packaging waste.
* Easier to ship.
* Easier to get home.
* Easier to store.
* Lower carbon footprint.
Supermarkets: work with brands on signage for new products so they don't have to be big to be seen.
Twitter/X is now "pay to say"
May 10, 2025 at 5:29 PM
Twitter/X is now "pay to say"
There's also a lot of talk about juniors taking longer to find work, but no talk about huge numbers of unemployed software engineers, which corroborates your assertion that there are more roles available (as the number of juniors is still increasing).
I'd love to see more analysis on this shift!
I'd love to see more analysis on this shift!
May 4, 2025 at 11:24 AM
There's also a lot of talk about juniors taking longer to find work, but no talk about huge numbers of unemployed software engineers, which corroborates your assertion that there are more roles available (as the number of juniors is still increasing).
I'd love to see more analysis on this shift!
I'd love to see more analysis on this shift!
There's been a shift in the number and type of roles recruiters reach out to me with on LinkedIn with.
I'm getting fewer incoming despite them reaching out to me for some of the top paid jobs in the industry.
The diversity is also reduced.
My sense is that the distribution of jobs has shifted.
I'm getting fewer incoming despite them reaching out to me for some of the top paid jobs in the industry.
The diversity is also reduced.
My sense is that the distribution of jobs has shifted.
May 4, 2025 at 11:24 AM
There's been a shift in the number and type of roles recruiters reach out to me with on LinkedIn with.
I'm getting fewer incoming despite them reaching out to me for some of the top paid jobs in the industry.
The diversity is also reduced.
My sense is that the distribution of jobs has shifted.
I'm getting fewer incoming despite them reaching out to me for some of the top paid jobs in the industry.
The diversity is also reduced.
My sense is that the distribution of jobs has shifted.