Emails from sender «ben’s bites».
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- What can you build with Jev — 2026-09-22
I always see people building cool interactions or experiences and just send them to my agent to link up with an idea or something I want to…
- New home for Cowork — 2026-09-17
I’ve not been building as much this week 😬 - hand, foot and mouth is back in our house (happens yearly with 3 young kids!
- Good luck slowing this down — 2026-09-15
I got access to Instinct, the personal agent all the VCs are raving about - I think it’s a bit meh? I don’t know if it’s the pro-activeness…
- Telling AI to design is hard — 2026-09-11
Explaining design styles/layouts/components is a nightmare for non-designers, they have their own language.
- Everyone needs a Muse — 2026-09-10
Since Astra and Fable 5. 1 I’ve been blasting through limits like crazy so I’m trying to get them to be orchestrating other agents, writing…
- The first GPT-6 model — 2026-09-08
I don’t know yet if it feels to me like a huge capability leap but every time a new model comes out I always think it must be my skill issue…
- Scraping 107M rows of data to build this — 2026-09-04
The session summary which includes all the linked files and prototypes is here. There’s also a tab to view the entire full agent sessions fr…
- Fable 5.1 — 2026-09-03
I’m not building these for anyone specifically or to make money with them. I just like building.
- Build your ideas — 2026-09-01
Back from a long weekend at home with my parents but before I went I started scraping data… The UK’s councils (like US states) publish their…
- How I built this — 2026-08-28
I’m in my hometown Cardiff for the long weekend seeing family. I’m even playing padel for the first time, which is sacrilege as I’m a regula…
- Who let the agents in — 2026-08-27
There are a couple of ways around this. You could type in your details in the browser yourself.
- Agents on your mobile — 2026-08-25
AI agents are becoming teammates. They should also be held to the same standard.
- How I built this — 2026-08-21
First trip taking the twins (3yrs) to the cinema tomorrow to watch Toy Story 5. I’m hopeful but may take their headphones because I think it…
- Simple agents — 2026-08-20
I’ll do a walkthrough of a session I had to setup a new (clean) personal agent for myself in tomorrow’s post. It really is just a bunch of f…
- Do you use a personal agent? — 2026-08-18
A staggering 95% of organizations have delayed AI projects due to poor governance and compliance issues. So, what needs to change?
- Ben’s session #2 — 2026-08-14
Last week I walked through a real agent session and explained the loop as we went. Agent thinks, uses a tool, thinks again.
- Grok Bot is not what you think — 2026-08-13
There was a wave of ‘personal agents’ with OpenClaw, then Hermes (not the luxury brand) with many flocking to them. I used them to begin wit…
- Make it readable — 2026-08-11
So I’ve been testing two new instructions. The output’s been 10x better for me, especially when it’s something “I’ve” built.
- Ben’s session — 2026-08-07
I’m trying something new - this email walks through one of my actual agent sessions and I’ll explain what’s happening along the way. The bui…
- I’m using a new agent app — 2026-08-06
If you use claude/chatgpt/pi/cursor/factory/(any agent) - you can use it within bb. It looks and works a lot like the chat/codex app (great)…
- What my agent knows about me — 2026-08-04
I tested it with Fable High and Sol Max, and Sol produced the better report. It was more coherent (agents are speaking more gobbledy goop th…
- 1 Billion ChatGPT users — 2026-07-30
I use Codex as my default app because it’s better than all the others and works the best on mobile.
- Opus 5 >> Fable 5 — 2026-07-28
I’m back from holiday and straight back to messing around building. I’ve been kinda obsessed and enamoured with the demos from tldraw.
- Caught cheating — 2026-07-23
Most agentic data work is quietly propped up. The agent returns something plausible, and every answer gets checked in case it’s plausibly wr…
- Better design than Fable — 2026-07-21
Ben’s Bites is the thing I’ve done longer than anything else. It’s because each email is new.
- I’ve got an Inkling — 2026-07-16
Introducing Attio: the agentic CRM. With agents and automations that build pipeline, chase signals, and move deals forward, Attio orchestrat…
- How to use GPT-5.6 — 2026-07-14
OpenAI finally released the GPT-5. 6 models to everyone, with many product changes.
- Grok x Cursor — 2026-07-09
Anthropic extended access to Fable 5 via Claude subscriptions until July 12. Same deal as before: up to 50% of your weekly limits, and after…
- My thoughts on Fable — 2026-07-07
I’ve been using Fable quite a bit since it came back (but not for long…) and I’ve barely used it to do any building.
- Fable is back — 2026-07-02
It’s got the default Google Calendar and Gmail tools connected, so starts with looking at if my flight is in my calendar (which it was, than…
- GPT-5.6 is here but… — 2026-06-30
Training got all the attention for the last few years. But in 2026, the real fight is serving intelligence: lower latency, lower cost, less…
- Claude Code in Slack — 2026-06-25
Since then, I’ve started explicitly asking it to create images whenever I’m building web UIs.
- Record a skill — 2026-06-23
Tired of using different AI models for different tasks? We were too, so we made nexos.
- The first big exit in AI — 2026-06-18
I’m using Codex as my ‘workhorse’ agent. Mostly because it’s easiest access on mobile while plugged into all my local files.
- Bye bye Fable — 2026-06-16
Anthropic launched Claude Fable 5 on June 9. Fable was the Mythos-class model for general use but with guardrails.
- New Claude model - Fable — 2026-06-11
Like a lot of others, I’m trying Fable. But I don’t think I’ve given it really hard tasks for me to feel the big step change people are clai…
- Hey Siri, meet AI — 2026-06-09
So you want to design a bigger task up front, like a plan. md file with a bunch of tasks, new features to implement, etc.
- Build tools, to build more — 2026-06-04
I’ve built and rebuilt this damn thing so many times in this process, which is actually part of the process.
- Opus 4.8 — 2026-06-02
Pulse is world’s fastest speech-to-text model (#1 on Sierra’s μ-Bench for P95 latency) with top performing accuracy (under 5% WER on Artific…
- I signed up for another SaaS — 2026-05-28
I tweeted my frustrations and Pietro, who I met at OpenAI’s Dev Day last year reminded me to try Magic Path.
- Is SaaS dead? — 2026-05-26
With SaaS tools, you pay monthly for a set of features and stability. The problem is that the tool needs to keep growing.
- Google’s take on openclaw — 2026-05-21
My first fund is now at 5x! I had a very notable firm not invest in my latest fund as they were assessing if I was a 5x fund returner… seems…
- Can I get my agents on the phone? — 2026-05-19
Google I/O starts today, and Logan tweeted: “The model is the product”. There have been some rumours that the latest Gemini model scores sim…
- Agents feedback tip — 2026-05-14
This is me, in droid, like 30 mins ago. It pulls together a pretty great visual report you can easily review.
- Learn the system — 2026-05-12
enjoyed this because what i took away;learn the systemto me, this is the difference of vibe coding and agentic engineering. i’m actively try…
- Ben’s Builds #3 - an email app — 2026-05-09
I use Gmail. I’ve used Superhuman for years.
- Welcome to Ben’s Bites 🤗 — 2026-05-08
Right now you’re on the free tier which means you’ll get my emails every Tuesday and Thursday.