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Ben Congdon. I'm a Software Engineer in Seattle, WA.
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To the Agents: "This place is not a place of honor"
TL;DR: "Private by obscurity" has been dissolved. Internal tools often have layering boundaries that are enforced only by convention. It's natural to assume a "high trust environment", where privileged actions are discouraged by obscurity and goodwill ins
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Thoughts on Marginal Token Spend
The rise of coding agents has made it easy for a single engineer to spend thousands of dollars a day in LLM tokens. This is a new class of expense, and it will change the future cost structure of software engineering. We are between stable equilibria toda
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Tokenmaxxing is Goodharting
Coding agents and reasoning models let individuals consume many more LLM tokens than they could a year ago. It's now easy for a single engineer to spend thousands of dollars in daily token usage. This is being actively encouraged through the recent memeti
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Feature Flagging at Databricks
In late January, I published a post 1 ( archive ) on the Databricks engineering blog about "SAFE", the feature flagging and experimentation platform I've been working on for the past few years. SAFE is what I've been spending most of my time on during my
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2025 in Review
Previously: 2024 , 2023 , 2022 , 2021 , 2020 , 2019 , 2018 , a href="https://benjamincongdon.me/blog/2017/12/31/...
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