Ben Dixon
talkingquickly.co.uk
Ben Dixon
@talkingquickly.co.uk
CTO and Co-Founder of getsona.com (backed by Felicis, Northzone, Gradient and more), #ElixirLang programmer, Photographer, MX5 / Miata enthusiast (IRL & iRacing!). Excited by what 2025 has in store for AI & Neovim
Just discovered; github.com/sunlei/zsh-ssh which is one of the fastest dev quality of life experiences I've found in a while! #zsh super smooth fzf based auto complete of the SSH hosts in your `~/.ssh/config`
GitHub - sunlei/zsh-ssh: Better host completion for ssh in Zsh.
Better host completion for ssh in Zsh. Contribute to sunlei/zsh-ssh development by creating an account on GitHub.
github.com
October 5, 2025 at 9:36 AM
So it turns out in iterm on macos you can hold down option while highlighting and then you will _always_ be able to select text and copy it using system clipboard. I don't know how many thousands of hours this would have saved me. iTerm is awesome.
September 6, 2025 at 12:02 PM
gpt-oss:20b combined with open web UI is wildly good, like “I’ve stopped using Claude as my day to day bounce ideas off good” and then open chat UI’s OpenAPI spec approach to tool calling has me questioning why I’m using MCP. So that’s a thing.
August 26, 2025 at 3:55 PM
Stuff I believe about LLM’s which you’d be justified in calling me crazy for, but I think are true all the same; www.talkingquickly.co.uk/unreasonable...
Some unreasonable things I believe about large language models - talkingquickly
Blog by Ben Dixon, Co-founder of Sona, about startups, elixir, AI, climbing and photography
www.talkingquickly.co.uk
August 26, 2025 at 1:28 PM
Great and entertaining piece on how wild AI skepticism about coding feels once you’ve seen it working! fly.io/blog/youre-a...
My AI Skeptic Friends Are All Nuts
My smartest friends have bananas arguments about LLM coding.
fly.io
June 3, 2025 at 6:44 AM
Still hearing a lot of “LLM’s are good for scaffolding” [as opposed to writing complex code] which is like 10% of what they can do. We need better ways to push people past the “wow” moment of realising what they can actually do. Ideas appreciated! #elixirlang
May 21, 2025 at 7:13 AM
Any #elixir devs who are as ridiculously excited about agentic / vibe coding as I am and going to be at #elixirconf #elixirconfeu in Krakow this week? If so let's hang out, I'll be there with the Sona crew!
May 13, 2025 at 10:17 AM
TIL; if you leave a set of Bluetooth headphones which are turned on and connected to your phone in the cup holder of a 2006 Mazda MX5 and then leave the car and lock it with the phone they’re connected to in your pocket. The alarm will intermittently go off! Top 5 bug for sure.
May 11, 2025 at 1:14 PM
AI coding is the most fun I've had building software in a decade. Things that should take a week take an hour... It's really hard to see a world where 80%+ of code isn't written by AI 12 months from now; talkingquickly.co.uk/vibe-coding-...
AI Coding ("vibe coding") is real, and that's a good thing
Blog by Ben Dixon, Co-founder of Sona, about startups, elixir, AI, climbing and photography
talkingquickly.co.uk
May 8, 2025 at 3:33 PM
I'm blown away pretty much daily by some little detail of @obsidian.md. Combined with Excalidraw it's now my tool of choice for the workflow "sketch some things on an iPad and then write commentary to turn them into a document for distribution on a laptop"
March 7, 2025 at 11:34 AM
The concept of "AX" (Agent Experience) here biilmann.blog/articles/int... really resonates. E.g. there are now three paradigms we have to design for; people (UX), API (DevX) and Agents (AX). As a side effect, good UX tends to equal good AX so thing agents are going to drive better UX. #ai
Introducing AX: Why Agent Experience Matters
As builders, we need to start focusing on AX or “agent experience” — the holistic experience AI Agents will have as the user of a product or platform.
biilmann.blog
March 4, 2025 at 7:27 AM
Super excited that Sona is sponsoring and hosting London's #ElixirLang meetup next week! www.meetup.com/elixir-londo...
February 2025 Meetup, Thu, Feb 27, 2025, 6:30 PM | Meetup
Elixir London Meetup; February 2025 edition. All are welcome. **Group-led code reading session** We're gonna look at the implementation of two functions: * [Phoenix.Live
www.meetup.com
February 20, 2025 at 7:50 AM
Cool! Now you can run Python from within Elixir; github.com/livebook-dev... at Sona we’re doing more and more LLM work in #ElixirLang so being able to “call out” into the Python ecosystem could be huge
GitHub - livebook-dev/pythonx: Python interpreter embedded in Elixir
Python interpreter embedded in Elixir. Contribute to livebook-dev/pythonx development by creating an account on GitHub.
github.com
February 18, 2025 at 9:14 PM