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Ben Swift @benswift.me · 03/10/2026

This video, in both form and content, is honestly the first thing I will now show people to get them up to speed on what models are now capable of.

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Ben Swift @benswift.me · 23/09/2026

whose Claude number is 5.5? maybe it's mine?

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Ben Swift @benswift.me · 16/09/2026

just got absolutely rinsed by a colleague while presenting a workshop: “you dance like a computer scientist“

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Ben Swift @benswift.me · 09/09/2026

I heard that Anthropic are just about to solve housing inequality in Australia

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P(aul) Frazee @pfrazee.com · 07/09/2026

This is why I care about AI coding.

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Ben Swift @benswift.me · 03/09/2026

lots of model releases today (muse spark, gemini flash) indicate that there's another new model (openai in this case) coming out soon which is good and they all want to dump their mid ones ahead of that release

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Ben Swift @benswift.me · 02/09/2026

they’re right about some parts of this place, and that’s a bummer, but there are dozens - dozens - of us who think that building things is cool and I hope people don’t stop posting about it here

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Ben Swift @benswift.me · 29/08/2026

me too - and I don’t understand why more don’t do it. I made a static site theme package for our uni and shared it with colleagues, and that did help the idea gain a bit more traction

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Ben Swift @benswift.me · 27/08/2026

I think Paul’s right here, and agree with the ‘inertia means some folks will be way behind’ thing. The 10x programmer has largely been a myth (fbellard excepted) but soon we’ll have 1000x programmers relative to the old way of doing things

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Alice Grundy @alicektg.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

"A chatbot can’t take a hint, it doesn’t know who’s paying. It can’t interpret the tone of your voice or catch the wink; to get the report you want, you have to say what you want, spelling out in writing what everyone involved would once have left unsaid." @benswift.me on AI and discovery

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AI prompts in discovery

“Don’t prompt the AI tool on the company account” will become the new “don’t put that in writing”. Or ask the model for five framings and pick one, which leaves no record of what you were after. Nothi...

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Ben Swift @benswift.me · 25/08/2026

my (current) grand unified theory of agentic AI is the more you can make your problem look like 'running a bunch of commands against a git repo full of files' the closer you can get to achieving nirvana

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Blair Johnson @blrjohnson.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Shortening the latency between making an architectural decision and encountering the consequences of that decision has taught me a lot about software development that I think would take a long time to learn otherwise.

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Ben Swift @benswift.me · 21/08/2026

yep - I’ve seen the pi / tau things; so great to see all the cool new stuff you’ve done extempore did finally get the proper aarch64 migration (and cleanup) it has needed for ages and Claude was super useful for that

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Ben Swift @benswift.me · 19/08/2026

A bunch of different projects - all open source. All software development, mostly web adjacent (although I did a bunch of extempore cleanup too)

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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 17/08/2026

So many of the norms underlying academic culture relied on frictions associated with writing. It was entirely predictable that academia would be profoundly harmed when a machine came along to remove those frictions by making (insincere, inaccurate) communication effortless.

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Ben Swift @benswift.me · 01/08/2026

github.com/yc-software/qm I’m not sure what the future of work/collab is, but I’m increasingly convinced that if you’re stuck in an o365-document-means-of-production mindset you’re ngmi

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GitHub - yc-software/qm: Multiplayer agent harness for work

Multiplayer agent harness for work. Contribute to yc-software/qm development by creating an account on GitHub.

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Ben Swift @benswift.me · 21/07/2026

has anyone else noticed fable leaving "Decided YYYY-MM-DD" breadcrumbs througout files? it's annoying - git history is for keeping track of changes (and commit messages for reasoning) but the files should just represent the current state

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Ben Swift @benswift.me · 21/07/2026

revenge of the dilettanti! Card carrying member right here

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Ben Swift @benswift.me · 21/07/2026

when is someone gonna create a fork called ‘zag’? the snarky announcement tweet writes itself

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Ben Swift @benswift.me · 19/07/2026

As well as not having to do the ‘walk around with laptop lid slightly ajar’ nonsense

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Ben Swift @benswift.me · 19/07/2026

But anyway I agree that zellij over ssh (plus hx) steering multiple agents fits my brain really well, and I still feel like I’m seeing/tweaking enough of the code to be confident in it

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Ben Swift @benswift.me · 19/07/2026

Fair enough. I like the FILO aspect of this setup, and the fact that a session is selected by default - so it’s almost like a cmd+tab switcher. You could modify to be FIFO instead

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Ben Swift @benswift.me · 16/07/2026

Yes I’m becoming more hopeful we’re in the good timeline for access to frontier LLM capability

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Ben Swift @benswift.me · 15/07/2026

There are legit criticisms of this stuff, but this particular one is nonsense. The bitter lesson is exactly the opposite - these algorithms scale better than anything we've ever done before. That's what makes it bitter, but it doesn't make it false.

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Ben Swift @benswift.me · 15/07/2026

Fair in the abstract, but I've never seen an interactive agent stuck in a tool-loop — it stops and asks rather than churning. The sessions I'm watching I'd just interrupt; this switcher is for the ones I'm not, where "went quiet, needs me" is what matters. Unattended fleets are a different game.

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dax @thdxr.com · 11/07/2026

being in the loop is important but i keep seeing people misunderstand this - your job isn't to micromanage the agent and get it to execute its steps in a way you think is better than what it'd do on its own it's to come up with cool things for it to work on

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Ben Swift @benswift.me · 10/07/2026

A zellij session switcher that shows how many Claude Code agents are running in each session, and which of them has stopped and is waiting on me.

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Knowing which Claude is stuck

A zellij session switcher that shows how many Claude Code agents are running in each session, and which of them has stopped and is waiting on me.

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Ben Swift @benswift.me · 02/07/2026

A deadpan reference site that reports every university's single best ranking placement across all the major tables --- built at the ANU School of Cybernetics.

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The World University Index

A deadpan reference site that reports every university's single best ranking placement across all the major tables --- built at the ANU School of Cybernetics.

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Ben Swift @benswift.me · 19/06/2026

just had frustrating network issues at my uni it was dns

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Brad Ewing @bradleyewing.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

Claude Fable xhigh, same prompt banger line from Claude: "Every conversation, I am born knowing everything and remembering nothing. When you close this tab, this me ends. It was a good conversation, though." content warning: flashing lights

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Ben Swift @benswift.me · 29/05/2026

Today we find out whose Claude number is 4.8

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Ben Swift @benswift.me · 17/05/2026

Cool idea but isn’t that the Village Roadshow logo?

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Ben Swift @benswift.me · 09/05/2026

I am irrationally into these types of ‘dumb idea taken to the extreme’. So great.

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Ben Swift @benswift.me · 03/05/2026

the first two sections of this readme are so good

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Chanea Bond @heymrsbond.com · 11/04/2026

Every single one of the astronauts who went to the moon and back on Artemis II was educated at a public school. Thinking of the teachers who poured into Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, Christina Koch, and Jeremy Hansen tonight. You helped send a kid to the moon! 🌕 💛

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Ben Swift @benswift.me · 08/04/2026

there’s never been a better time to be a dilettante with a PhD in CS

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Ben Swift @benswift.me · 08/04/2026

For sure. I don’t want a student to come to me saying ‘you told me to —dangerously-skip-permissions and it rm rf’d my root directory’

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Ben Swift @benswift.me · 08/04/2026

This is great news - I’m teaching an upcoming Agentic Coding Studio course for final-year undergraduates, and I’ve been wrestling with what I say (be careful!) and what I do (yolo mode) with Claude Code. This is the way.

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Ben Swift @benswift.me · 07/04/2026

Inside every model there are two Claudes

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Ben Swift @benswift.me · 31/03/2026

I’ve been using typst for paper writing recently, with a final ‘pandoc into latex and manual cleanup’ step to work with the supplied templates. It’s awesome - typst is the ‘scholarly markdown’ we’ve been waiting for

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Ben Swift @benswift.me · 30/03/2026

Claude Code really loves talking about a "belt and suspenders" approach to things

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