Ben McMahan
@benmcmahan.bsky.social
Creative software engineer. At Glean, previously Puppetry, Google (Doodles), Amazon, mcmahan.games. He/him
Well now I want to read it
November 23, 2025 at 3:10 PM
Well now I want to read it
I told someone that AI used to mean what AGI does now and they just wouldn't believe me. The term is long gone now.
November 23, 2025 at 2:51 PM
I told someone that AI used to mean what AGI does now and they just wouldn't believe me. The term is long gone now.
It will be blessed irony if the thing that takes him down is perfectly legal
November 15, 2025 at 6:09 AM
It will be blessed irony if the thing that takes him down is perfectly legal
And the Republican Party have no friends of Dorothy
October 23, 2025 at 10:23 PM
And the Republican Party have no friends of Dorothy
I want to frame this
October 21, 2025 at 5:00 AM
I want to frame this
Well played. Erotica in this economy?
October 15, 2025 at 2:18 PM
Well played. Erotica in this economy?
Been a while since I read Stephen King, I'll probably try this one out.
October 15, 2025 at 2:16 PM
Been a while since I read Stephen King, I'll probably try this one out.
Would have made an amazing TV show, each episode a vignette of someone's experience much like the book.
October 11, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Would have made an amazing TV show, each episode a vignette of someone's experience much like the book.
Ha, you'll be fine letting it go if it's that big.
October 9, 2025 at 4:52 AM
Ha, you'll be fine letting it go if it's that big.
Who to bribe. Pay $100k to gov or $20k to this one guy
September 20, 2025 at 3:31 PM
Who to bribe. Pay $100k to gov or $20k to this one guy
If there is any planet in space with an ocean, I'm pretty sure we know less about it than our ocean.
July 22, 2025 at 3:18 AM
If there is any planet in space with an ocean, I'm pretty sure we know less about it than our ocean.
Zimbabwe aka 5 trillion dollar bill
July 2, 2025 at 2:06 AM
Zimbabwe aka 5 trillion dollar bill
There was a laughing epidemic once cause by extreme stress en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tangany...
Tanganyika laughter epidemic - Wikipedia
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July 2, 2025 at 1:56 AM
There was a laughing epidemic once cause by extreme stress en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tangany...
Don't punish people for good behavior (making them do something annoying if it's high traffic, or making them backtrack long ways if they go for a hidden treasure)
June 26, 2025 at 2:56 PM
Don't punish people for good behavior (making them do something annoying if it's high traffic, or making them backtrack long ways if they go for a hidden treasure)
They would do it now depending on their skin color
June 25, 2025 at 9:29 PM
They would do it now depending on their skin color
I should be clear. The counter point was to that there are no critics making that statement.
June 19, 2025 at 7:47 PM
I should be clear. The counter point was to that there are no critics making that statement.
Counter point:
bsky.app/profile/roxa...
bsky.app/profile/roxa...
AI is not useful.
I don’t think there’s a single serious critic who says AI’s not useful? The concerns I see are about content rights, worker impacts, environmental effects, epistemological threats, or media manipulation. But that’s all predicated on the idea that it *does* work, often too well for people to manage…
June 19, 2025 at 2:48 PM
Counter point:
bsky.app/profile/roxa...
bsky.app/profile/roxa...
The reason software engineers are all in on it is because it is remarkably useful for software engineers. It's possible other fields won't find it as useful but it's false to say it has no uses.
June 18, 2025 at 6:48 PM
The reason software engineers are all in on it is because it is remarkably useful for software engineers. It's possible other fields won't find it as useful but it's false to say it has no uses.