AnalysisOpinion / analysisAgents & Tool Use1 source · Oct 6, 2026

Thoughts from San Francisco

Some random thoughts, notes and reflections from my week in SF.

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Key points

  • There are roughly 4 groups of people using AI.
  • Third, people like me who aren’t engineers but know what localhost is and can steer a coding agent.
  • That’s why I build silly things, and why I renamed my talk to “how I build and play with AI”.
  • On personal agents: I think they’ll be the interface of the future.

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  • [1]Thoughts from San Francisco
    Ben's Bites · Oct 6, 01:01 PM
    Some random thoughts, notes and reflections from my week in SF.
    There are roughly 4 groups of people using AI.

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