Ben Hofferber

Gave a Claude Ralph loop the task of replacing my Bento site (which is shutting down) with a whole new page and links. It crushed it in 15 minutes with a very clear set of improvements over the original: me.benhofferber.com Made a few tweaks but love the way it interpreted the style from my sites

Aqua has been one of the stickiest voice applications that I've enjoyed using. I feel like, for some reason, it interprets me better than any other tool I've used for capturing my voice. Definitely a recommend going into 2026. Use my code if you want but it's just good aquavoice.com/share?code=B...

New post on Antigravity, Google's new IDE. My initial impressions offer a more nuanced experience than the chipper attitude of this presentation which should help you get a balanced perspective. blog.stablediscussion.com/p/googles-an...

Feels like every AI release I try this week is broken. Claude Code for Web is awesome but I can't seem to figure out when servers are running or not. They seem to just stop responding at times but sort of work better on the mobile app for some reason...

So far my Cursor 2.0 experience is very underwhelming... Tried Cursor 2.0’s new cloud agent. It pushed changes to a branch fine, but then got stuck looping its own edits and stopped responding to new requests. Web version seems better at this point.. which is funny in it's own way

Claude Code on Web is more awesome than I thought. Initially a bit skeptical but the UX is chefskiss

An AI browser isn’t very high on my list of things I want these days but there’s a lot of perceived need with Atlas coming out. Perplexity is feeling the pain I guess… Meanwhile I’m just over here vibing with Dia :)

If you're noticing app weirdness today AWS's US-East-1 servers are having degraded stability: health.aws.amazon.com/health/status Noticed the Starbucks app was pretty unresponsive this morning and had to order in person which was uncomfortable for all involved

Clause Skills are essentially Claude Code Commands that can run within your Claude App. I love doing AI tasks on my phone on the go but this still doesn’t feel like it for me. Definitely cool but I don’t think I’ll be able to step away from Claude Code long enough to adopt

Getting tips on where to go next in a video game when I'm stuck is my most common genre of AI conversation. I talk at my computer to dictate things but it's rare that I want to have a conversation with a yes-man. Even longer therapy-lite conversations end up just being a way to collect my thoughts

I had early access to what is Claude 4 (I don't know which mode yetl, they had codenames) & I have been very impressed Fun example, this is what it made in response to the prompt: "the book Piranesi as a p5js 3d space. do it for me" - just that, no other prompting (note the birds, water, lighting)

Feels like ChatGPT is hanging on by a thread these days. Rough prompting happening on 4o, images failing to generate repeatedly, chat unable to edit documents, memory keying in on the wrong details… It’s hard to build an AI experience and stay at the edge of all AI. Someday they may need to focus.

Realizing that some of the things we attribute to AI were already trending before AI… Specifically small mostly senior teams has seemed to be a multi-year trend at startups I’ve interacted with. While AI didn’t help, I think we have the causes wrong on this one but the discussion is on rails now

Large scale job displacements due to AI are likely to occur more slowly than a lot of people talking about AI and work might suspect. Translators were paid more and in more demand a year after GPT-4 than they were the year it launched. Change is likely to come, but the timing is hard to predict.

New site redesign! hint.services

Here’s the latest and greatest thinking I published on MCP Servers: blog.stablediscussion.com/p/my-reflect... #mcp #mcpserver

Model Context Protocol (MCP) client support allows your app to connect to hundreds of pre-built tools: GitHub, Slack, filesystem operations, and more. Your users can also build and connect their own custom MCP servers to extend your application's functionality.

Released a video today on my latest and greatest AI workflow. I use this every day and really enjoy the result! It’s completely replaced Tana for me in a way that I’m confident I won’t be going back Claude + Obsidian = Building Your Personal AI Ecosystem (MCP Servers) youtu.be/fH-ZL6sC_vU

Created a quick video of me walking through how I ground an AI feature of an app. It’s a quick framework that I think helps to go through when thinking of agentic flows to try to get better accuracy Stop Your AI From Lying! 5 Steps to Ground AI in Reality (Real Examples) youtu.be/XIx2UtQmzck

Today I dropped a quick video with some of the core aspects of my AI development stack: youtu.be/My4I2ykqL8c

Thinking it might make sense to spin up a Bluesky Likes export to Obsidian. Love the knowledge collection and I feel like this should exist… At least provides something similar to bookmarks for now

I see a lot of (correct) complaints that AGI and agents are badly defined. This problem will not be solved because: 1) AGI and agents inherently rely on comparisons to humans, and we don't have good definitions of human agency or general ability 2) Marketing is incentivized to blur any definitions