Category: Ben Around the World

Frontier LLMs are the cheapest way to prove a narrow ML feature should exist. They’re also scaffolding. Here’s why I’m planning to throw mine out in twelve months, and the user-feedback workflow that makes it possible.

The laptop my dad bought me at seventeen put me on a level playing field with Silicon Valley. The LLM token bill is the modern version. The kids without it are starting their working lives with a gap that wasn’t there in mine.

Twenty years of better dev tools, three turns of the same pattern. AI isn’t eating developers, it’s eating SaaS. From someone who’s seen it before.

Apple lost the cloud LLM race so badly they’re paying Google a billion a year for Gemini. They’re also quietly winning the on-device AI race, and that’s the bet I’d take.

I’m shutting down Aux and Poison Pill. Two products, two very different ideas, but ultimately the same wall. Aux was an AI-powered sample generation library. I built and trained a custom model as part of my Computer Science degree at the University of London Goldsmiths, and the vision was straightforward: give producers and musicians access…