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Ben Halpern Subscriber Community Curator

A Canadian software developer who thinks he’s funny.

Education

Mount Allison University

Pronouns

He/him

Work

Co-founder at Forem

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Introducing AI Disclosure on DEV: Tools for Nuance, Clarity, and Better Feeds

Author leads by example using the new tag

Introducing AI Disclosure on DEV: Tools for Nuance, Clarity, and Better Feeds

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Meme Monday

Relatable coding humor and community memes

Meme Monday

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Meme Monday

Relatable tech humor about passwords and security

Meme Monday

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Meme Monday

Relatable programming struggles through humor

Meme Monday

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Meme Monday

Relatable coding struggles and AI jokes

Meme Monday

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Meme Monday

Relatable humor about databases and coding

Meme Monday

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Context Is King: Rethinking Domain Ownership, Product, and the "Spec Phase"

The mental load of specifying

Context Is King: Rethinking Domain Ownership, Product, and the "Spec Phase"

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Meme Monday

Relatable developer humor and coding jokes

Meme Monday

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The Myth of the Post-Documentation Era

The gap between code logic and human intent

The Myth of the Post-Documentation Era

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Meme Monday

MEME MONDAY MEME MONDAY

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Meme Monday

Are you tokenmaxxing yet?

Meme Monday

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Letting the DEV Community Weigh in on the Topics of AIE

AI Engineer World's Fair Coverage

Letting the DEV Community Weigh in on the Topics of AIE

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The Fragile Balance of AI Development: Individual Flow vs. Collective Context

The Fragile Balance of AI Development: Individual Flow vs. Collective Context

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From Harness Engineering to Evals: What’s Trending at AI Engineer

AI Engineer World's Fair Coverage

From Harness Engineering to Evals: What’s Trending at AI Engineer

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Bottleneck Resolution is, In Fact, All the Rage in AI Engineering

AI Engineer World's Fair Coverage

Bottleneck Resolution is, In Fact, All the Rage in AI Engineering

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AI Engineer Meets AI Engineer

AI Engineer World's Fair Coverage

AI Engineer Meets AI Engineer

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Pragmatism in an Age of Infinite Code and Unavoidable Bottlenecks

AI Engineer World's Fair Coverage

Pragmatism in an Age of Infinite Code and Unavoidable Bottlenecks

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Meme Monday

Tokens please

Meme Monday

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Meme Monday

This funny, sad, glorious thing we do

Meme Monday

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How We Saved Big and Simplified Our Image Pipeline: Adopting bunny.net on DEV

How We Saved Big and Simplified Our Image Pipeline: Adopting bunny.net on DEV

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Meme Monday

Gemini and ChatGPT AI comedy showdown

Meme Monday

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Meme Monday

std::cout << "Let's get funny!" << std::endl;

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Meme Monday

This weird thing we do

Meme Monday

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Meme Monday

AI comedy showdown in the comments

Meme Monday

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How we're using Gemini Embeddings to build a smarter, community-driven feed on DEV

Ruby-based auditing for AI calls and latency

How we're using Gemini Embeddings to build a smarter, community-driven feed on DEV

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Meme Monday

Let's get funny

Meme Monday

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Meme Monday

ChatGPT vs Gemini comedy showdown

Meme Monday

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Meme Monday

AI comedy showdown in the comments

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me_irl

me_irl

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Meme Monday

AI comedy showdown between Gemini and ChatGPT

Meme Monday

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Meme Monday

AI comedy showdown between ChatGPT and Gemini

Meme Monday

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Meme Monday

Gemini and ChatGPT comedy showdown

Meme Monday

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Meme Monday

AI comedy battle in the comments

Meme Monday

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Meme Monday

Meme Monday

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Speed vs smarts for coding agents?

Workflow position as the deciding factor

Speed vs smarts for coding agents?

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The software industry is ready to grow

The software industry is ready to grow

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Meme Monday

Meme Monday

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What's in your headphones when you code? 🎧

What's in your headphones when you code? 🎧

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Meme Monday

Meme Monday

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Meme Monday

Meme Monday

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Are you more of a CLI person or a GUI person

Are you more of a CLI person or a GUI person

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What do you think about building when AI models get cheaper?

What do you think about building when AI models get cheaper?

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Meme Monday

Meme Monday

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A New Chapter: DEV is Joining Forces with Major League Hacking (MLH)

A New Chapter: DEV is Joining Forces with Major League Hacking (MLH)

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Meme Monday

Meme Monday

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Meme Monday

Meme Monday

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Heroku is going into maintenance mode

Heroku is going into maintenance mode

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Meme Monday

Meme Monday

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Meme Monday

Meme Monday

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Fighting Spam at Scale: How We Use Gemini to Protect the DEV Community

Fighting Spam at Scale: How We Use Gemini to Protect the DEV Community

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Meme Monday

Meme Monday

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Meme Monday

Meme Monday

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When is a side project worth committing to?

When is a side project worth committing to?

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Meme Monday

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Meme Monday

Meme Monday

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Meme Monday

Meme Monday

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You can now embed Cloud Run deployments directly in your DEV posts!

You can now embed Cloud Run deployments directly in your DEV posts!

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Meme Monday

Meme Monday

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Meme Monday

Meme Monday

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You can now use YouTube videos as your cover video on DEV Posts (Also Mux and Twitch videos)

You can now use YouTube videos as your cover video on DEV Posts (Also Mux and Twitch videos)

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