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Tyler Benfield

@rtbenfield.dev
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I make databases fast and host fast databases. Platform Architect at Prisma

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Tyler Benfield @rtbenfield.dev · 29/09/2026
New model, new Pro 500 sub, and ultrafast mode
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Tyler Benfield @rtbenfield.dev · 29/09/2026
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Tyler Benfield @rtbenfield.dev · 29/09/2026
This venue is legit. Love the couch areas to hang. We'll have a similar setup at Builder's Day by @prisma.io in a few weeks (builders.day)
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Jared Lemler @jaredlemler.com · 29/09/2026
If you’re there at OpenAI DevDay find this guy @rtbenfield.dev and ask him about Builder’s Day on October 26! luma.com/builders-day...
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Builder's Day - AI Developer Conference · Luma
Builder's Day brings together people building with AI in production. One day of talks, demos, and conversations with the engineers, founders, and thought…
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Tyler Benfield @rtbenfield.dev · 29/09/2026
I'm at OpenAI DevDay! Hit me up if you're here too
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Prisma @prisma.io · 28/09/2026
Early bird tickets won’t be around much longer Here’s the next round of Builder’s Day speakers. Join us in San Francisco on October 26 to hear how they’re building through the uncertainty of AI. Grab your ticket before early bird ends: builders.day
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Prisma @prisma.io · 25/09/2026
Finding purpose in the age of AI means moving forward through uncertainty Join Brian Douglas at Builder’s Day and learn from builders making their next move, as you figure out yours Early bird ends soon. Get your 🎟️ pris.ly/bdoug
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Tyler Benfield @rtbenfield.dev · 17/09/2026
The biggest risk in software development today with AI might be asking the agent to change something that contradicts an assumption about your product that lives only in your head and some disposable agent thread
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Prisma @prisma.io · 11/09/2026
After bootstrapping five SaaS startups and working with 100+ companies, Corey Haines saw where marketers needed better tools. He turned that experience into Marketing Skills, an open-source AI toolkit with 4.8M installs. Hear his story at Builder’s Day ↓ builders.day/speakers/co...
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Corey Haines | Speakers | Builder's Day
Corey Haines, Founder at Conversion Factory, is speaking at Builder's Day on October 26, 2026 in San Francisco: How I went from marketer to building AI marketing tools.
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Tyler Benfield @rtbenfield.dev · 11/09/2026
I'm letting fable run unhinged in a VM to evaluate experiments with firecracker. Last night it was working on VM networking in a rust harness that bans unsafe. It wrote C code instead, compiled it to BPF, and copied the bytes into a Rust source file. Absolutely ruthless
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Tyler Benfield @rtbenfield.dev · 10/09/2026
npm create db
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Prisma @prisma.io · 08/09/2026
The first wave of Builder’s Day speakers just dropped 🌈 They’re building the tools, products, and ideas shaping how software gets made in the age of agents. Meet the lineup, with more names coming soon! builders.day/speakers
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Tyler Benfield @rtbenfield.dev · 08/09/2026
The agent has tools to report feedback and mark files as complete. If it ends the review without all files marked complete, a guard makes it continue. This all happens in a Mastra workflow. A few more things for replying to comments and such, but that's the gist of it
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Tyler Benfield @rtbenfield.dev · 08/09/2026
The code review agent starts from a GitHub webhook, grabs some context, clones into a sandbox, generates a git diff, then gives the sandbox to an agent to perform the review
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Tyler Benfield @rtbenfield.dev · 08/09/2026
We use Mastra for its excellent primitives and telemetry. It gives us a good foundation, is model agnostic, and improves every week. The skill and docs are great, so we unleash our agents to build agents. Highly recommend
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Tyler Benfield @rtbenfield.dev · 08/09/2026
We've been building our own agents to help us operationally and they all run on open weight models, mostly GLM The newest is a code review agent that runs GLM-5.3 Flash. The Prisma team is already favoring it over the one we pay for and the core was built in a couple afternoons
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Tyler Benfield @rtbenfield.dev · 04/09/2026
You already have tools for self improving software Set up a Claude or Codex routine to pull your errors, telemetry, or product metrics and generate a report that includes prompts or creates PRs directly to fix the biggest issues. Every day your product gets better
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Tyler Benfield @rtbenfield.dev · 04/09/2026
New Prisma Compute deployments now run Bun v1.4.1 Some cool features in this release for streaming and WebSocket workloads that fit perfectly with having a real VM running your app. Betting on Bun continues to pay off bun.com/blog/bun-v1....
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Bun v1.4.1
Fixes 202 issues, addressing 236 👍. HTTP/2 in Bun.serve, Bun.write() streams Response bodies to disk, self-contained workspace node_modules, bun install --offline and --prefer-offline, WebSocket pause...
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Tyler Benfield @rtbenfield.dev · 02/09/2026
Things that use to be time and attention intensive now happen in the background in a few minutes
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Tyler Benfield @rtbenfield.dev · 02/09/2026
Giving agents paths to access data over MCP or other tools is insanely cool I have Claude routines running daily to generate reports on our infra and look for opportunities for improvement. If something seems off I can ask it to dive deeper, look for historic patterns, or find correlating trends
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Tyler Benfield @rtbenfield.dev · 30/08/2026
A human will still make the deployment decision, but this substantially improves our ability to react to small deviations in measurement and in ways that are challenging to predict ahead of time to create alerts for Agents shine in catching and fixing the 1 in 10k issues
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Tyler Benfield @rtbenfield.dev · 30/08/2026
One thing we added is a daily agent workflow to analyze telemetry, generate a human-friendly report, and propose improvements with comprehensive prompts. It also verifies post-fix This will soon mature to dispatching coding agents to create the PRs autonomously
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Tyler Benfield @rtbenfield.dev · 30/08/2026
This had been slowly creeping up over the last few weeks disguised as intermittent network inconsistencies. We've found the root cause, fixed it, and we're improving our observability to spot and correct these trends much earlier
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Tyler Benfield @rtbenfield.dev · 30/08/2026
This morning we shipped a fix to Prisma Postgres connection routing to address an increased p99 network latency that sometimes resulted in timeouts on p99.9
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Tyler Benfield @rtbenfield.dev · 26/08/2026
We're still early and the next year of industry changes is hard to predict, but we'll be right there experimenting, adapting, and shipping to give you the best platform we can imagine for 2026 and beyond
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Tyler Benfield @rtbenfield.dev · 26/08/2026
Prisma ORM was always about helping developers write reliable code faster. The next iteration of the ORM extends that with agents as a first class consumer Prisma Cloud brings that same passion into how humans and agents build and deploy. Low friction, reliable guardrails, and explicit feedback
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Tyler Benfield @rtbenfield.dev · 26/08/2026
In the last year we've gone from tab completion to watching agents take tasks, write code, and verify their work. It's hard to grasp how quickly this shift happened and obvious that it's not over yet
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Prisma @prisma.io · 24/08/2026
We’ve been working on a major upgrade to the Prisma CLI, and tomorrow it’ll be available through `prisma@latest` alongside a few other things.
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Remix @remix.run · 24/08/2026
Today is the last day to get Early Bird pricing for Remix Jam After today, the ticket prices go up from $299 -> $399 We can't wait to Jam in Toronto on October 2nd! remix.run/jam/2026/tic...
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Remix Jam 2026 Tickets
Get tickets for Remix Jam 2026 in Toronto.
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Tyler Benfield @rtbenfield.dev · 20/08/2026
All new deployments to Prisma Compute apps now run Bun 1.4
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Tyler Benfield @rtbenfield.dev · 20/08/2026
bun upgrade
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Tyler Benfield @rtbenfield.dev · 18/08/2026
Gemini beats out all others in visually identifying garden insects. It may do nothing else effectively but the BeetleBench score is unprecedented
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Neciu Dan @neciudan.dev · 17/08/2026
Tyler Benfield (@rtbenfield.dev) on database performance and Prisma YouTube: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q3-91HMNsqM Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/5Rqm0R1l9A… Takeaways: neciudan.dev/takeaways/database-per…
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Tyler Benfield @rtbenfield.dev · 12/08/2026
I'm putting so much love into Builder's Day. I hope you'll join us in SF on October 26 for a day celebrating how products are built now and into the future. Comment or DM me with any questions, thoughts, or ideas you'd like to see
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Prisma @prisma.io · 12/08/2026
We’re bringing AI Builder’s Day conference to San Francisco 🎉 On October 26, engineers, founders & AI builders are coming together to talk about building & shipping AI in production. Talks, demos, real-world lessons & time to meet other builders (1/2) 🧵
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Tyler Benfield @rtbenfield.dev · 11/08/2026
I'm name dropping Heroku in an upcoming talk and got hit with the nostalgia git push heroku main 🍻
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Tyler Benfield @rtbenfield.dev · 11/08/2026
Apps hosted on Prisma Cloud now have automated response compression This is spec-compliant and passes through already compressed assets. You can optimize your build-time assets while letting us compress server rendered pages or opt-out with `Cache-Control: no-transform`
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Tyler Benfield @rtbenfield.dev · 11/08/2026
Since Prisma 8 has pluggable data types we can ship options with zero cost Temporal is the recommended option if you like working code. String values will be available if you're nostalgic for time zone bugs
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Tyler Benfield @rtbenfield.dev · 10/08/2026
As models get better and we're encouraged to cut back our rules files, the most durable ones are describing intent and product direction Aligning with AI on this enables the agent to make meaningful suggestions and even push back
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Tyler Benfield @rtbenfield.dev · 10/08/2026
It wouldn't be required to polyfill globally. The Temporal implementation could be provided through the constructor to avoid polluting the environment if it's not native to the runtime. Still ideating on this but it's compelling to eliminate all these problems at the type level
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Tyler Benfield @rtbenfield.dev · 10/08/2026
Databases have distinct types for datetime, date, time, with and without time zone. Using JS date to move between them is riddled with failure paths. Temporal solves all of it
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Tyler Benfield @rtbenfield.dev · 10/08/2026
How would you feel if Prisma 8 required your JS runtime to support the Temporal API or provide an implementation like temporal-polyfill?
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Tyler Benfield @rtbenfield.dev · 08/08/2026
I'm going to commit to cross-posting going forward 🫡 I want to be more active here
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Tyler Benfield @rtbenfield.dev · 08/08/2026
Thanks! It's been fun to ramble a bit about the topics of the week and how they affect us
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Prisma @prisma.io · 23/04/2026
It's Miami. You're going to need sunglasses. Find Mike @mhartington, Tyler @rtbenfield or Aidan @aidankmcalister at @ReactMiamiConf and grab a free pair on us. 😎
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Tyler Benfield @rtbenfield.dev · 22/04/2026
let's go
Delta Airlines gate screen showing a destination of Miami
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Tyler Benfield @rtbenfield.dev · 30/03/2026
Hey me too
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Tyler Benfield @rtbenfield.dev · 03/12/2025
I'm stoked to chat with my friends @tdesseyn.bsky.social and @jasontorres.bsky.social tomorrow and share my advice on acing your interviews. I hope you'll join us!
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Tyler Benfield @rtbenfield.dev · 29/11/2025
I didn't realize the beta build was already available! Just installed it 🤩
Windows task manager snippet showing yaak-app.exe and yaaknode.exe with the Arm64 architecture.
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Tyler Benfield @rtbenfield.dev · 29/11/2025
🥳 My daily driver is Windows ARM if you want some additional Yaak testing
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