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Jim Bennett @jimbobbennett.dev · 07/08/2026

How do you trust agents before they hit production? At @arize.bsky.social's Observe 2026, Salesforce's Manjit Singh walked through evaluating agents across the lifecycle — single agents to orchestrators & handoffs. Sketchnoted 👇 🔗 Video link in the comments.

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Jim Bennett @jimbobbennett.dev · 05/08/2026

"Everyone is an AI agent builder — if you let them." At @arize.bsky.social's Observe 2026, CrewAI shared enterprise lessons on where agent ROI shows up and how to scale building across an org. Sketchnoted 👇 🔗 Video link in the comments.

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Jim Bennett @jimbobbennett.dev · 03/08/2026

As agents become digital coworkers, access control built for humans starts to break. At @arize.bsky.social's Observe 2026, WorkOS's Michael Grinich explored the identity & security model for autonomous agents. Sketchnoted 👇 🔗 Video link in the comments.

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Jim Bennett @jimbobbennett.dev · 31/07/2026

What does agent adoption actually look like in production? At @arize.bsky.social's Observe 2026, Mastra shared patterns from thousands of teams — what separates shipped agents from stuck prototypes. Sketchnoted 👇 🔗 Video link in the comments.

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Jim Bennett @jimbobbennett.dev · 29/07/2026

From experimentation to production, agents need whole-lifecycle platforms. At @arize.bsky.social's Observe 2026, Microsoft's Sebastian demoed building, deploying, evaluating & governing agents with Microsoft Foundry. Sketchnoted 👇 🔗 Video link in the comments.

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Jim Bennett @jimbobbennett.dev · 27/07/2026

Scaling agents from prototype to production is an infrastructure problem. At @arize.bsky.social's Observe 2026, Anyscale's Robert Nishihara explained how Ray scales RL, inference & multimodal AI — and why RL is having a moment. Sketchnoted 👇 🔗 Video link in the comments.

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Jim Bennett @jimbobbennett.dev · 24/07/2026

The hardest problems in AI aren't model problems anymore — they're evaluation problems. At @arize.bsky.social's Observe 2026, Hamel Husain argued agents are bringing the data scientist back to AI engineering. Sketchnoted 👇 🔗 Video link in the comments.

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Jim Bennett @jimbobbennett.dev · 22/07/2026

What are the smartest AI investors seeing before everyone else? At @arize.bsky.social's Observe 2026, Jaya Gupta of Foundation Capital shared where VC is flowing across the AI stack. Sketchnoted the fireside 👇 🔗 Video link in the comments.

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Jim Bennett @jimbobbennett.dev · 20/07/2026

When a hallucination is a regulatory + financial risk, responsible AI gets real. At @arize.bsky.social's Observe 2026, BlackRock shared how it deploys AI to support pros managing trillions — with real guardrails & evaluation. Sketchnoted 👇 🔗 Video link in the comments.

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Jim Bennett @jimbobbennett.dev · 17/07/2026

With autonomous agents, observability shifts from "what happened" to "why did the agent do that." At @arize.bsky.social's Observe 2026, AWS's Nate Slater explored how agentic AI changes observability. Sketchnoted 👇 🔗 Video link in the comments.

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Jim Bennett @jimbobbennett.dev · 15/07/2026

Two of the fastest-growing open-source agent projects, one conversation. At @arize.bsky.social's Observe 2026, OpenClaw & Nous Research debated where agent frameworks go next — memory, skill creation, long-term learning. Sketchnoted 👇 🔗 Video link in the comments.

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Jim Bennett @jimbobbennett.dev · 13/07/2026

"AI agents need specs, not prompts." At @arize.bsky.social's Observe 2026, George Zhang argued the engineer's real job is specifying the hill agents climb — tests, evals, rubrics, constraints. Sketchnoted 👇 🔗 Video link in the comments.

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Jim Bennett @jimbobbennett.dev · 10/07/2026

What happens when a leading AI coding company turns its product inward? At @arize.bsky.social's Observe 2026, Cursor shared how it uses agents, evals & agent-powered workflows to build Cursor itself. Sketchnoted 👇 🔗 Video link in the comments.

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Jim Bennett @jimbobbennett.dev · 08/07/2026

"Kubernetes is not your sandbox." At @arize.bsky.social's Observe 2026, the Daytona team argued K8s wasn't built for agent workloads, and walked through what agent-native infrastructure actually needs. Sketchnoted 👇 🔗 Video link in the comments.

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Jim Bennett @jimbobbennett.dev · 06/07/2026

Building agents is harder than the demos make it look. At @arize.bsky.social's Observe 2026, Anthropic's Marius Buleandra shared why agent failures compound in production, how to design evals that catch them, and why human review still matters. Sketchnoted 👇 🔗 Video link in the comments.

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Jim Bennett @jimbobbennett.dev · 03/07/2026

How do you improve a product with hundreds of millions of users? At @arize.bsky.social's Observe 2026, OpenAI's Stuart Sy showed how ChatGPT turns fragmented 'vibes' into evidence + action. I sketchnoted the talk 👇 🔗 Video link in the comments.

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Jim Bennett @jimbobbennett.dev · 01/07/2026

Agents stopped being demos this year — they're shipping code, fixing bugs, and running real workflows. In @arize.bsky.social's Observe 2026 keynote, the founders lay out what's next. I sketchnoted the whole keynote 👇 🔗 Video link in the comments.

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Jim Bennett @jimbobbennett.dev · 19/05/2026

Every AI agent deployed inside an enterprise sometimes quietly disagrees with the humans running the same process. The written policy says one thing. The institutional knowledge sitting in Slack threads, hallway conversations, and the heads of long-tenure employees says another. 🧵 1/3

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Jim Bennett @jimbobbennett.dev · 24/04/2026

Why do I run? Currently I’m running for Sage House, a dementia support charity helping my dad and other folks live with dementia. Sponsor me for the @londonmarathon.bsky.social! 2026tcslondonmarathon.enthuse.com/pf/james-ben...

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Jim Bennett @jimbobbennett.dev · 18/01/2026

In 99 days I’m running the 2026 TCS London Marathon to raise money for Sage House, a charity that helps folks with dementia like my Dad. Please sponsor me as I try to raise $10,000 for this charity! 2026tcslondonmarathon.enthuse.com/pf/james-ben...

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Jim Bennett @jimbobbennett.dev · 15/10/2025

This one? Love the life day set.

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Jim Bennett @jimbobbennett.dev · 15/10/2025

Same! Undecided to build it now or wait till closer to Christmas

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Jim Bennett @jimbobbennett.dev · 30/08/2025

Private repos were turned public, secrets were stolen, repos were renamed. How is this not a fucking security or privacy incident?

We're writing to inform you about a recent security incident involving your GitHub account. We observed malicious activity where a threat actor acquired stolen GitHub OAuth tokens during the recent npm nx package compromise. While this is not a Security Incident as defined in the GitHub Data Protection Agreement, and it is not a Privacy Incident as defined in any applicable privacy or security regulations, GitHub is providing this notification for your awareness. For more details you can go here:

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Jim Bennett @jimbobbennett.dev · 19/08/2025

You vs the guy she told you not to worry about.

A small aubergine next to a large aubergine

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Jim Bennett @jimbobbennett.dev · 15/08/2025

TFW you go to a @kcdc.bsky.social session in RenPy and decide your plane ride home will be playing with then, then @abt.bsky.social gives you a copy of her book and you also want to read that.

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Jim Bennett @jimbobbennett.dev · 13/08/2025

Not saying my @kcdc.bsky.social Star Wars themed workshop was the best, but here’s one of the attendees warming up the audience playing Star Wars on the accordion.

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Jim Bennett @jimbobbennett.dev · 13/08/2025

Checking my fit before teaching a workshop on creating a copilot at @kcdc.bsky.social. Clippy FTW!

A selfie of Jim wearing a shirt with clippy on it

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Jim Bennett @jimbobbennett.dev · 12/08/2025

A WH Smith’s at MCI airport! But not a beano in sight.

A shop sign saying the market at by WH Smith

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Jim Bennett @jimbobbennett.dev · 06/08/2025

Well I don’t think I’ll be coming to eat at this restaurant at any point

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Jim Bennett @jimbobbennett.dev · 18/07/2025

TFW you get a random shoutout during a @devrelcon.bsky.social talk!

A selfie of Jim smiling and pointing to a picture of himself on the screen in a conference session

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Jim Bennett @jimbobbennett.dev · 28/06/2025

Am I worried AI will take over the world? Nah.

From Microsoft copilot in Bing: If you can't find fructose at your local supermarket, you can use the following substitutes
• Pure glucose
• Fresh herbs and spices
• Beans, eggs, nuts, seeds, and tofu
• Avoid condiments like barbecue sauce, ketchup, and steak sauce, as they contain fructose.

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Jim Bennett @jimbobbennett.dev · 24/06/2025

40 plus appreciation post! Reskeet with a pic if you’re on the right side of 40. 47!

Jim giving a smiling thumbs up in running gear at the end of a half marathon

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Jim Bennett @jimbobbennett.dev · 18/06/2025

If only it was this easy to fix with just a PR

Text being entered into a GitHub PR saying this also contains fixes to spelling and capit, with autocomplete suggesting capitalism

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Jim Bennett @jimbobbennett.dev · 08/06/2025

Quick but very hot 10k at the big backyard run in Marymoor park. 4th in my age group which is nice.

A selfie of Jim with a load of runners behind him waiting to start a race

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Jim Bennett @jimbobbennett.dev · 08/06/2025

Just had a fun vodka tasting with a friend at the Duvall Distillery. Highly knowledgeable patron sharing how he makes his vodka, lots of interesting flavors, and some random woman trying desperately to chat me and my friend up.

A set of vodka bottles on a bar with flavors like triple pepper, bacon, coffee and lemon

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Jim Bennett @jimbobbennett.dev · 07/06/2025

Great to see the 501st legion at Snohomish Pride today.

A bunch of Star Wars characters with pride themed outfits holding a sign saying everyone has a place in the stars . They are part of a pride parade

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Jim Bennett @jimbobbennett.dev · 05/06/2025

Quick stretch before talking about evaluation driven development of genetic apps at the AI engineer worlds fair.

Jim smiling at the front of a conference room pointing at an audience who are stretching

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Jim Bennett @jimbobbennett.dev · 03/06/2025

On my way to SF. If you’re attending the AI Engineering worlds fair and want ti learn why your AI needs reliability and evaluations come say hi at the @rungalileo.bsky.social booth.

Jim sitting on a plane wearing a white hoodie and orange glasses

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Jim Bennett @jimbobbennett.dev · 02/06/2025

The new Lego Jango Fett ship is a very fun build! Probably the most fun one in a long time. Solidly built, interesting construction techniques, and some fun details.

The Lego jango fett ship next to a AT AT and Yoda.

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Jim Bennett @jimbobbennett.dev · 24/05/2025

It’s Saturday, I’m sitting outside a brewery with a beer and working on a deck to teach 4th graders some tips to pitching a product as they are doing a shark tank project to round out their year! Almost perfect except my leg hurts after decking it on a trail run earlier.

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Jim Bennett @jimbobbennett.dev · 21/05/2025

My job tonight - charge my laptop, iPad and shoes…

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Jim Bennett @jimbobbennett.dev · 20/05/2025

You at #msbuild? Here’s all the @rungalileo.bsky.social fun you can expect today.

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