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Benedict Cohen @benedictc.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 07/10/2026

@pasi @jonmsterling I question the suitability of the analogy but my main interest is why you don’t like the fact that people are angry. When something is thrust upon people that negatively impacts them and which they had no say in anger strikes me as a reasonable reaction. Anger can motivate […]

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Benedict Cohen @benedictc.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 07/10/2026

@pasi do you think it’s unreasonable for those people to be angry?

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Benedict Cohen @benedictc.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 07/10/2026

@pasi are you saying that LLMs are to software engineers what calculators are to mathematicians?

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Benedict Cohen @benedictc.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 03/10/2026

@ObsidianUrbex experimental flood recovery device. Basically like a salad spinner but for houses

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Benedict Cohen @benedictc.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 30/09/2026

RE: mastodon.social/@MarkEditApp/117360… This is one of my favourite Mac apps. It does its job very well and doesn’t get in the way. It feels like it has the ethos that drew me to Mac 20 years ago but is now rare to see. It also presents MarkDown exactly how I like.

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Benedict Cohen @benedictc.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 27/09/2026

@sdarlington I was thinking about this in the context of PRs. AI can write PRs that tick all the boxes for what a good PR looks like despite the actual code being junk. Humans will naturally look for ways to speed up our decision making so hopefully we’ll be able to develop new ways to avoid […]

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Benedict Cohen @benedictc.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 16/09/2026

My favourite bit of production today is the shaker on AC/DC’s Problem Child. It’s mixed in front of the lead vocal which is unusual but works perfectly.

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Benedict Cohen @benedictc.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 05/09/2026

@brucelawson it’s Guinness with a champagne top which tells you he’s an omnidirectional wrongen

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Benedict Cohen @benedictc.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 16/08/2026

Cynics are temporarily embarrassed believers

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Benedict Cohen @benedictc.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 23/06/2026

I went to the cinema to stay out of the heat and watched Disclosure Day. Dreadful! The most ludicrous problem is that it mistakes empathy for sociopathy.

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Benedict Cohen @benedictc.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 26/05/2026

Those pesky engineers forcing the helpless executives to massively increase their spending on AI. Funny how the executives are able to resist calls for pay rises inline with inflation […]

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Benedict Cohen @benedictc.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 07/05/2026

I’ve made a little app! It’s called EyeBrowse. It lets you scroll a document by raising and lowering your eye brows. My use case is for reading chords and lyrics while playing guitar. I’d love to hear what other uses people find for it. apps.apple.com/gb/app/eyebrowse/id6… […]

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Benedict Cohen @benedictc.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 13/04/2026

I was made redundant so I’m on the hunt for my next #iOS engineer role. I have over 15 years of experience and I’m based in London. Boosts much appreciated! #FediHire

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