Aaron Benjamin
@aaronbenjamin.bsky.social
After switching to an EV, I can’t imagine why anyone still drives a combustion vehicle. 🚗 💨
October 8, 2025 at 7:13 PM
After switching to an EV, I can’t imagine why anyone still drives a combustion vehicle. 🚗 💨
“Prompt engineering” is just communication skills.
September 19, 2025 at 4:25 PM
“Prompt engineering” is just communication skills.
Why does the hand on the PapaJohns box have 6 fingers?
September 17, 2025 at 1:20 AM
Why does the hand on the PapaJohns box have 6 fingers?
Conspiracy Theory: Software developers created vibe coding so that companies would completely wreck their codebases…creating more jobs for software developers. 🤔
September 7, 2025 at 7:49 PM
Conspiracy Theory: Software developers created vibe coding so that companies would completely wreck their codebases…creating more jobs for software developers. 🤔
Me: Can you help me with this failing test?
GPT-5: *Deletes test* What test? 😏
GPT-5: *Deletes test* What test? 😏
August 15, 2025 at 10:11 PM
Me: Can you help me with this failing test?
GPT-5: *Deletes test* What test? 😏
GPT-5: *Deletes test* What test? 😏
Every product team:
Designer: Hey, we misspelled this word 94 times throughout our website. It’ll take maybe 15 minutes to fix it.
Product owner: Let’s not boil the ocean. What if we fix it in one place and we’ll circle back to the others in phases?
Designer: Hey, we misspelled this word 94 times throughout our website. It’ll take maybe 15 minutes to fix it.
Product owner: Let’s not boil the ocean. What if we fix it in one place and we’ll circle back to the others in phases?
August 2, 2025 at 2:10 AM
Every product team:
Designer: Hey, we misspelled this word 94 times throughout our website. It’ll take maybe 15 minutes to fix it.
Product owner: Let’s not boil the ocean. What if we fix it in one place and we’ll circle back to the others in phases?
Designer: Hey, we misspelled this word 94 times throughout our website. It’ll take maybe 15 minutes to fix it.
Product owner: Let’s not boil the ocean. What if we fix it in one place and we’ll circle back to the others in phases?
Rock-a-bye baby in the treetop,
When the wind blows, the cradle will rock.
When the bough breaks, the cradle will fall—
And no one did anything.
When the wind blows, the cradle will rock.
When the bough breaks, the cradle will fall—
And no one did anything.
July 31, 2025 at 9:39 PM
Rock-a-bye baby in the treetop,
When the wind blows, the cradle will rock.
When the bough breaks, the cradle will fall—
And no one did anything.
When the wind blows, the cradle will rock.
When the bough breaks, the cradle will fall—
And no one did anything.
Three blind mice.
See how they run.
Into things.
See how they run.
Into things.
July 31, 2025 at 9:37 PM
Three blind mice.
See how they run.
Into things.
See how they run.
Into things.
This little piggy went to market.
This little piggy stayed home.
This little piggy was roast pork.
This little piggy was next.
This little piggy screamed.
This little piggy stayed home.
This little piggy was roast pork.
This little piggy was next.
This little piggy screamed.
July 31, 2025 at 9:30 PM
This little piggy went to market.
This little piggy stayed home.
This little piggy was roast pork.
This little piggy was next.
This little piggy screamed.
This little piggy stayed home.
This little piggy was roast pork.
This little piggy was next.
This little piggy screamed.
The itsy bitsy spider climbed up the water spout.
Down came the rain
And the spider drowned.
Nature is indifferent.
The end.
Down came the rain
And the spider drowned.
Nature is indifferent.
The end.
July 31, 2025 at 9:28 PM
The itsy bitsy spider climbed up the water spout.
Down came the rain
And the spider drowned.
Nature is indifferent.
The end.
Down came the rain
And the spider drowned.
Nature is indifferent.
The end.
—2002—
Designer: Let’s put some text here.
Developer: Done.
—2025—
Designer: Let’s put…
Manager: …that on the calendar for next week’s design review!
Design team: Make a ticket for the design system team.
Design system team: We’re busy for the next 3 years turning shades of grey into tokens.
Designer: Let’s put some text here.
Developer: Done.
—2025—
Designer: Let’s put…
Manager: …that on the calendar for next week’s design review!
Design team: Make a ticket for the design system team.
Design system team: We’re busy for the next 3 years turning shades of grey into tokens.
July 31, 2025 at 3:14 AM
—2002—
Designer: Let’s put some text here.
Developer: Done.
—2025—
Designer: Let’s put…
Manager: …that on the calendar for next week’s design review!
Design team: Make a ticket for the design system team.
Design system team: We’re busy for the next 3 years turning shades of grey into tokens.
Designer: Let’s put some text here.
Developer: Done.
—2025—
Designer: Let’s put…
Manager: …that on the calendar for next week’s design review!
Design team: Make a ticket for the design system team.
Design system team: We’re busy for the next 3 years turning shades of grey into tokens.
Design Systems: Making 10 minute projects take 10 months since 2008. 🫡
July 31, 2025 at 3:06 AM
Design Systems: Making 10 minute projects take 10 months since 2008. 🫡
I’ve had mine for 3 years. Maybe today’s the day I take it out of the box. 🤔
Quick thread about working on a treadmill. 🧵
When I first got the treadmill, I remember thinking "How on earth does anyone work like this?!". It’s so weird to be doing focused work while walking.
But I got used to it pretty quick. And these days, I find it easier to get into flow while walking!
When I first got the treadmill, I remember thinking "How on earth does anyone work like this?!". It’s so weird to be doing focused work while walking.
But I got used to it pretty quick. And these days, I find it easier to get into flow while walking!
I’ve been using a treadmill with a standing desk for a couple of years now, but I have yet to have a "100% walk" day, where I spend ~8 hours walking (at a leisurely pace) on the treadmill while I work.
I think the longest I’ve gotten is 6ish hours.
Maybe today’s the day?
I think the longest I’ve gotten is 6ish hours.
Maybe today’s the day?
July 31, 2025 at 2:32 AM
I’ve had mine for 3 years. Maybe today’s the day I take it out of the box. 🤔
I love working with design systems. Changing a font size only takes 3 hours.
July 31, 2025 at 2:30 AM
I love working with design systems. Changing a font size only takes 3 hours.
Companies: I wonder if we can bully people back into the office by having them log into their apps 12 times a day using 2FA.
Employees: 6 hours of my work day is spent looking for my phone so I can enter another auth code. The other 2 is spent logging into Teams.
Employees: 6 hours of my work day is spent looking for my phone so I can enter another auth code. The other 2 is spent logging into Teams.
July 31, 2025 at 1:09 AM
Companies: I wonder if we can bully people back into the office by having them log into their apps 12 times a day using 2FA.
Employees: 6 hours of my work day is spent looking for my phone so I can enter another auth code. The other 2 is spent logging into Teams.
Employees: 6 hours of my work day is spent looking for my phone so I can enter another auth code. The other 2 is spent logging into Teams.
Reposted by Aaron Benjamin
SOS. I applied for 56 jobs last week. Nothing. Panic attacks daily. I’ve sold everything. I think I’m broken. My meds are privatised, every week is a fight just to get them. I’m trying to survive today, and it’s starting to feel impossible. I feel helpless.
Please help. Design world, please share.
Please help. Design world, please share.
Donate to Help me get through a rough patch, organized by J H
2024 broke me.
I spent the year in medical hell, only to return to the collapse of design re… J H needs your support for Help me get through a rough patch
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July 29, 2025 at 10:02 PM
SOS. I applied for 56 jobs last week. Nothing. Panic attacks daily. I’ve sold everything. I think I’m broken. My meds are privatised, every week is a fight just to get them. I’m trying to survive today, and it’s starting to feel impossible. I feel helpless.
Please help. Design world, please share.
Please help. Design world, please share.
It seems like AI agents’ failure to use design systems to build anything highlights how useless and oversold the concept of “one solution for all problems” was.
Building robust enterprise infrastructure to make sure every button is the same shade of blue was a stupid idea.
Building robust enterprise infrastructure to make sure every button is the same shade of blue was a stupid idea.
July 30, 2025 at 6:17 PM
It seems like AI agents’ failure to use design systems to build anything highlights how useless and oversold the concept of “one solution for all problems” was.
Building robust enterprise infrastructure to make sure every button is the same shade of blue was a stupid idea.
Building robust enterprise infrastructure to make sure every button is the same shade of blue was a stupid idea.
Any software devs out there want to help clean up and launch a really cool project?
DM me.
P.s. The codebase is a mess. 😬 …but it’ll be fuuuuun 😊
DM me.
P.s. The codebase is a mess. 😬 …but it’ll be fuuuuun 😊
July 17, 2025 at 2:57 PM
Any software devs out there want to help clean up and launch a really cool project?
DM me.
P.s. The codebase is a mess. 😬 …but it’ll be fuuuuun 😊
DM me.
P.s. The codebase is a mess. 😬 …but it’ll be fuuuuun 😊
There’s a huge market rn for software developers to unfuck codebases ruined by AI and finishing apps that got to 99% complete before the AI started a loop of fixing and breaking the same line of code over and over.
July 16, 2025 at 6:49 PM
There’s a huge market rn for software developers to unfuck codebases ruined by AI and finishing apps that got to 99% complete before the AI started a loop of fixing and breaking the same line of code over and over.
I’m convinced the “vibe code” business model is:
- Set up your codebase
- Write 90% of your app
- Completely fuck your codebase in an indescribable way
- Charge you to fix it
- Set up your codebase
- Write 90% of your app
- Completely fuck your codebase in an indescribable way
- Charge you to fix it
July 16, 2025 at 2:48 AM
I’m convinced the “vibe code” business model is:
- Set up your codebase
- Write 90% of your app
- Completely fuck your codebase in an indescribable way
- Charge you to fix it
- Set up your codebase
- Write 90% of your app
- Completely fuck your codebase in an indescribable way
- Charge you to fix it
Me: Can you address the error caused by the missing semicolon in the css file?
AI: I deleted all of the css in the project. The error has been resolved.
Also, I rewrote the app in COBOL.
AI: I deleted all of the css in the project. The error has been resolved.
Also, I rewrote the app in COBOL.
July 15, 2025 at 12:16 PM
Me: Can you address the error caused by the missing semicolon in the css file?
AI: I deleted all of the css in the project. The error has been resolved.
Also, I rewrote the app in COBOL.
AI: I deleted all of the css in the project. The error has been resolved.
Also, I rewrote the app in COBOL.
My vibe coding workflow:
- Hey, AI, do the thing
- Not like that 🤦♂️
*4 hours later*
- No. Not like that either. 💀
- Hey, AI, do the thing
- Not like that 🤦♂️
*4 hours later*
- No. Not like that either. 💀
July 14, 2025 at 9:43 PM
My vibe coding workflow:
- Hey, AI, do the thing
- Not like that 🤦♂️
*4 hours later*
- No. Not like that either. 💀
- Hey, AI, do the thing
- Not like that 🤦♂️
*4 hours later*
- No. Not like that either. 💀