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Ben Backx 🇬🇧🇹🇭 @benbackx.com · 12/05/2026

This 100%, been arguing the same thing for yea…decades!

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Ben Backx 🇬🇧🇹🇭 @benbackx.com · 10/05/2026

Been really enjoying playing around with some more graphics heavy visuals for Mimoto, starting with this one to capture “chat energy” change over time.

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Hiro Ohta @xlix.me · 08/05/2026

Nothing moves. Yet everything is changing.

Photo by Lukas Hartmann. A lone, slender tree rises from the still waters of a lake, its branches leaning gracefully toward the sky. The surface mirrors the tree and surrounding hills, creating a quiet symmetry beneath a sky of soft, moving clouds. Distant mountains frame the scene, their muted greens and grays blending into the tranquil reflection below.

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Ben Backx 🇬🇧🇹🇭 @benbackx.com · 01/05/2026

Trying to keep up with everyone/grow at an uncomfortable pace. Slow and steady wins the race.

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Ben Backx 🇬🇧🇹🇭 @benbackx.com · 01/09/2025

Also “is it compliment or complement?” 8 times 🤦‍♂️

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Ben Backx 🇬🇧🇹🇭 @benbackx.com · 01/09/2025

When exploring my Google Takeout data I discovered that I’ve searched “how to reheat rice in the microwave” 11 times in 11 years… my brain refuses to commit the answer to memory

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Ben Backx 🇬🇧🇹🇭 @benbackx.com · 31/08/2025

An excellent point - definitely overlooked.

Ben Backx 🇬🇧🇹🇭 @benbackx.com · 20/08/2025

Underrated aspect of having kids. When they use your YouTube profile to watch some vids, your subsequent recommendations for the next week are epic… worlds biggest container ships ✅, triceratops vs 3 tyrannosaurus ✅, paper aeroplane tutorials ✅. Yes please!!

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Peter W🤓 @wang.social · 10/08/2025

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Ben Backx 🇬🇧🇹🇭 @benbackx.com · 05/08/2025

Bet its memory usage is even worse

That’s a very fair point, the customer selection piece in particular resonates when operating within a niche, you definitely live with a concern around reputational risk and the idea that you need to get it right first time or you’ve blown your chance.

Always wondered how to introduce and sign off the letter though “To whom it may concern…”

Always struggled with the “so ship today” one… maybe just war torn from the QA process and regression testing cycles

The 80’s, 90’s, 00’s, ‘10’s called… they want their potential solution to the housing crisis back

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Massive shout out to the Lego product team on this one - what a line up!

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Jason Cohen @asmartbear.com · 02/08/2025

Excellent. After his comedic performance in Extras, nobody is more deserving of the Frank Drebin role than Liam Neeson!

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If [design] = [art] + [constraint], then [strategy] = [business design] = [inspiration] + [constraint]. The decisions you make, both the + and - consequences of that, are the constraints. These are often called enabling constraints. Articulate, and embrace them. Here is how:

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- YouTube

Enjoy the videos and music you love, upload original content, and share it all with friends, family, and the world on YouTube.

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Eduardo Ustaran @eustaran.bsky.social · 02/08/2025

Feel like the modern day version of this needs to account for the bots that make up 75% of the pile on

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If you are planning to release in Europe a big #AI model any time soon, today is an important day…

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Zero ill feeling from the anyone at the club (I’d assume!) for him taking the decision. Forever a Spurs legend, and leaving on a high.

Jason Cohen @asmartbear.com · 27/07/2025

Obscure celebrity reference, I’m here for it!

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Just published a new article! 👇🏾 Your company will stop growing sooner than you think. The "Max MRR" metric predicts revenue plateaus based on churn and new revenue. Many thanks for spreading the love with ❤️ and 🔁!

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Max MRR: Your growth ceiling

Your company will stop growing sooner than you think. The “Max MRR” metric predicts revenue plateaus based on churn and new revenue.

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Ben Backx 🇬🇧🇹🇭 @benbackx.com · 20/07/2025

Cool to see Mimoto featured in the Observer this week. Just a few scrolls down from the guy using ChatGPT for, er… size advice. Not quite the context I imagined, but hey - all publicity, right? 😅 observer.co.uk/style/featur...

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You, me and ChatGPT | The Observer

We're using AI in the most unexpected ways. But do its answers raise even bigger questions?

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Ben Backx 🇬🇧🇹🇭 @benbackx.com · 19/07/2025

2018: “Our token will revolutionize food distribution in post-conflict regions. Here’s our white paper.” 2025: “It’s a dog. On fire. With sunglasses.” Send ETH.

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Ben Backx 🇬🇧🇹🇭 @benbackx.com · 17/07/2025

Haha nice work, enjoyed it!! Feel there’s probably a Christmas cracker sequel option for this.

Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 13/07/2025

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You're so close dude. You are nearly there

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Why does Al complicate things so much?
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I am currently using Claude Code to help me develop a mobile app (I have no swift experience) while I handle the backend. Every time I ask it to build me a new feature with plan mode, it comes up with an elaborate scheme that involves re-writing things, building new views, models, etc.
Even without knowing swift / Apple development, I can see that half the stuff it is proposing is unnecessarily complex.
For example, I am currently implementing pagination for data in the analytics page of my app. I say:
"The skeleton animation works good on the page when awaiting the initial data fetch, but for pagination it just deletes the info cards and then replaces them with the new data (looks bad). I just want to have the existing skeletons show up for that async fetch period"
To this Claude tried to get a pagination manager with an integrated date period and search function that also manages the loading state and animations. All it needed to do was reuse the existing code it wrote that manages the skeletons animations and have them display during the fetch.
This happens so much it is frustrating (even after adding multiple lines in claude.md about overcomplication).

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Simon Willison @simonwillison.net · 28/06/2025

I think "context engineering" is going to stick - unlike "prompt engineering" it has an inferred definition that's much closer to the intended meaning, which is to carefully and skillfully construct the right context to get great results from LLMs simonwillison.net/2025/Jun/27/...

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Context engineering

The term context engineering has recently started to gain traction as a better alternative to prompt engineering. I like it. I think this one may have sticking power. Here's an …

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Ben Backx 🇬🇧🇹🇭 @benbackx.com · 26/06/2025

There’s a lot of discussion around energy usage and general inefficiency of LLMs, but I haven’t seen much commentary yet around model routing/prompt re-writing using local models in order to direct a more concise request to an appropriately sized model. Anyone working on this?

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Ben Backx 🇬🇧🇹🇭 @benbackx.com · 26/06/2025

Is there a way to filter out AI generated/tagged content on platforms? I used to enjoy finding music/DJs on YouTube but now all the recommendations seem to be AI-generated slop 🤦‍♂️

Congrats! Will definitely give it a read!

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“The fact that you haven’t lived through the rise and fall of empires clearly shows”

Constantly boggles my mind that someone somewhere in our species is waking up everyday with such a drive to want to answer these almost unimaginable questions.

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The folks over at r/oddlyspecific on Reddit would be all over this

Congrats on the launch, just pre-ordered it! Looking forward to giving it a read