Ben Cooley
@benjcooley.bsky.social
Dude living in Southern California.. generally enjoying life, the beach, etc.
Alum of Lucas Arts, Zynga, Telltale Games. Former Principal Engineer and tools/pipeline lead at Riot for League of Legends, now at Proof of Play (yay web3).
Alum of Lucas Arts, Zynga, Telltale Games. Former Principal Engineer and tools/pipeline lead at Riot for League of Legends, now at Proof of Play (yay web3).
The woman's face is quite beautiful in both the marble and the well painted form.
December 19, 2025 at 7:59 AM
The woman's face is quite beautiful in both the marble and the well painted form.
Some interesting visualizations of the subjects of your article I generated using the other images in your article as style references.
December 19, 2025 at 7:50 AM
Some interesting visualizations of the subjects of your article I generated using the other images in your article as style references.
When I see that Gigafactory I wonder what it will look like when the desert reclaims it.
First the beams that support the ceiling will collapse, then the outer walls. Then there'll be just debris on a very large concrete pad.
First the beams that support the ceiling will collapse, then the outer walls. Then there'll be just debris on a very large concrete pad.
March 16, 2025 at 6:51 PM
When I see that Gigafactory I wonder what it will look like when the desert reclaims it.
First the beams that support the ceiling will collapse, then the outer walls. Then there'll be just debris on a very large concrete pad.
First the beams that support the ceiling will collapse, then the outer walls. Then there'll be just debris on a very large concrete pad.
.... also HEAVILY dependent on the engineer prompting it to describe IN DETAIL what is to be done in explicit detail (long descriptions of requirements and strategy). In a manner that any junior engineer probably would no be able to do.
I expect.. that this requirement will eventually disappear.
I expect.. that this requirement will eventually disappear.
February 17, 2025 at 8:17 PM
.... also HEAVILY dependent on the engineer prompting it to describe IN DETAIL what is to be done in explicit detail (long descriptions of requirements and strategy). In a manner that any junior engineer probably would no be able to do.
I expect.. that this requirement will eventually disappear.
I expect.. that this requirement will eventually disappear.
4. At a certain point, when it can't apply it's focus because the context needed won't fit, it completely fails and you must resort to hand coding to get anything done.
Takeaway - about a 3x to 5x speed/productivity boost overall, but not a replacement. Heavily depends on code structure.
Takeaway - about a 3x to 5x speed/productivity boost overall, but not a replacement. Heavily depends on code structure.
February 17, 2025 at 8:14 PM
4. At a certain point, when it can't apply it's focus because the context needed won't fit, it completely fails and you must resort to hand coding to get anything done.
Takeaway - about a 3x to 5x speed/productivity boost overall, but not a replacement. Heavily depends on code structure.
Takeaway - about a 3x to 5x speed/productivity boost overall, but not a replacement. Heavily depends on code structure.
2. In narrow scope complex features that are well described it can write entire large chunks of very complex code.
3. It begins to fail when the project grows and code dependencies and architecture start to deviate from it's known patterns, grow beyond it's context sweet/spot.
3. It begins to fail when the project grows and code dependencies and architecture start to deviate from it's known patterns, grow beyond it's context sweet/spot.
February 17, 2025 at 8:14 PM
2. In narrow scope complex features that are well described it can write entire large chunks of very complex code.
3. It begins to fail when the project grows and code dependencies and architecture start to deviate from it's known patterns, grow beyond it's context sweet/spot.
3. It begins to fail when the project grows and code dependencies and architecture start to deviate from it's known patterns, grow beyond it's context sweet/spot.
Done some non-trivial from scratch coding with AIDER and the top level models. My take now having tried to avoid writing any direct code in these projects is that:
1. It's greatly accelerates bootstrapping a project, writing skeleton code, and getting an MVP up and running.
1. It's greatly accelerates bootstrapping a project, writing skeleton code, and getting an MVP up and running.
February 17, 2025 at 8:14 PM
Done some non-trivial from scratch coding with AIDER and the top level models. My take now having tried to avoid writing any direct code in these projects is that:
1. It's greatly accelerates bootstrapping a project, writing skeleton code, and getting an MVP up and running.
1. It's greatly accelerates bootstrapping a project, writing skeleton code, and getting an MVP up and running.
Just pondering how this, the attempts to shut down USAID and the hysterical war against DEI might be connected.
Anyone have any ideas?
Anyone have any ideas?
February 8, 2025 at 6:43 AM
Just pondering how this, the attempts to shut down USAID and the hysterical war against DEI might be connected.
Anyone have any ideas?
Anyone have any ideas?
1-3 aren't going to work this time (they've never worked).
#4 will though.
#4 will though.
February 2, 2025 at 12:22 AM
1-3 aren't going to work this time (they've never worked).
#4 will though.
#4 will though.