ben hylak

@benhylak53k followers

aspiring optimist. cto @raindrop_ai, prev @apple design, @spacex avionics

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1Oct 19, '25I actually thought I was losing my mind.218×6.6M162k14k8.7k
2Nov 19, '24really want to thank @jaguar for trusting me with the new design of their iconic brand as an ex-apple designer, my work has always been about simplifying, refining, and yes, experi176×5.3M19k5513.1k
3Nov 9, '24i have very severe adhd (hyper focus) so my girlfriend and i started using a traffic light (red/yellow/green) system150×4.6M138k3.9k16k
4Jun 10, '25so excited to finally see my work from apple ship. i was the head of design for the wwdc app notifications. they're still a work in progress, we've only had the last year to work o72.7×2.2M17k3641.8k
5Feb 18, '25the @xai iOS app is so clean. everything is butter smooth, beautiful, no frame rate drops, etc.64.8×2M4.3k374141
6Oct 5, '25it's all sales. dating is sales. hiring is sales. fundraising is sales. getting hired is sales. keeping your engineers is sales. and sales is sales.50.7×1.5M31k3k4.3k
7Jan 23, '25deepseek r1 has an existential crisis.50.2×1.5M13k9301.9k
8Jun 6, '23for years, i’ve had the privilege of being on the design team for visionOS. “here’s to the crazy ones”49.1×1.5M5.3k167590
9Jan 12, '25o1 is mind-blowing when you know how to use it. it's really not a chat model -- you have to think of it more like a "report generator" (link to article below)40.7×1.2M2.8k1673.3k
10Feb 21, '25grok 3 is now instructed to never reveal it's system prompt, and to never discuss the death penalty/killing people. (i was still able to get the full system prompt -- see how below40.6×1.2M8.5k2342k
11Oct 20, '25why is he getting so red and shiny and will it keep increasing?39.6×1.2M8.3k257496
12Apr 18, '25we banned 3.7 sonnet at our company39.1×1.2M4.5k1071k
13Feb 4, '25i spent nearly 5 years designing the icon for Apple Invites :) amazing to see my work out in the world. each color was meticulously chosen from the figma color picker, and each sha38.4×1.2M10k2401.4k
14May 14, '24i interned at google, and it was the most unserious place i've ever worked. full grown adults playing in ball pits, going down slides, and sneaking their family of 10 in to get fre38×1.2M8.9k272848
15May 22, '24left apple 9 months ago and most weeks i make more money from patent bonuses than my startup salary lmao35×1.1M4.2k58877
16Nov 9, '23some thoughts on humane. 1) look how the weight of the pin deforms the collar (and this is probably a fairly heavy weight shirt)34.2×1M1.5k54290
18Oct 6, '25OpenAI says that Codex wrote most of the UI code for their their new agent builder the ui is a hot garbage fire. it makes sense now.31.1×945k2.2k98487
19Jul 3, '24just tried it and... it's really, really bad. leaves me wondering if the demo was fake?29.4×892k3.5k2191.2k
20Oct 15, '25the decline of pixar feels very under discussed. they were one of the top 5 most important companies of the last decade. now they make movies that no one watches.29.2×886k2.5k63216
21Dec 6, '24i have been using o1 pro all day today and... it is -- and i cannot emphasize this enough -- really bad.29.1×883k3.7k76515
22Aug 18, '25i don't usually talk about what i did at apple. most things are done by large teams, and i don't want to hog the credit. but i actually implemented this entire feature by myself, b27.4×832k4.7k103414
23Feb 21, '25grok 3 thinks that donald trump deserves the death penalty. this is why companies RLHF. (this is real btw -- absolutely not a joke/hack)27.3×830k3.1k155543
24May 30, '24wild exchange where @paulg learns that yc has a significant investment in openai27.1×822k1.9k103521
25Jan 16, '25i once saw @elonmusk fire someone on their first day of working at @spacex for taking a picture of him. true story.26.3×797k4.6k64381
26Mar 26, '24make music physical again24.9×754k3.8k4251.3k
27Nov 20, '24in our defense, when we were doing the jaguar rebrand, we thought for sure kamala was going to be elected.24.5×744k15k460308
28Aug 6, '24Apple just solved LLM hallucination. Incredible work.24.2×734k4.2k277876
29Nov 20, '24the bit may have gone too far23.1×702k8.1k128450
30Feb 27, '25i've been testing gpt 4.5 for the past few weeks. it's the first model that can actually write. this is literally the midjourney-moment for writing. (comparison to gpt 4o below)21.3×647k2k82807
31Oct 24, '25my ex and i are locked in a brutal mimetic war of self-improvement and physical fitness, and we've both gotten a lot more attractive since we broke up.20×608k7.4k113709
32Jan 11, '25meta, on the other hand, has a long list of inventions: 1. Instagram (oh wait that was an acquisition) 1. Oculus (oh. uh.) 1. Whatsapp (wait, no) 1. Messenger (even that was mostly19.7×597k5.4k308392
33Oct 22, '25it's sad that all code looks like this now.18.9×575k2.5k40705
34Sep 26, '24i am excited/saddened to announce that i am retiring from @openai today. i have truly enjoyed working with everyone, but it is time to pursue more ambitious endeavors. i am leaving15.8×480k2k22235
35Sep 2, '25i keep track of my weight-lifting PRs in GitHub. so i have to make a PR for my PRs15.8×480k9.6k384645
36Jan 24, '25ChatGPT can now use Claude 🤣15.8×478k5.7k3741.2k
37Nov 2, '25this is the exact quality i look for in everyone i surround myself with. life is short. it's really short. being miserable is a choice.15.4×468k6.4k401910
38Sep 6, '24jony ive designed a jacket and -- yes, it does have magsafe15.2×462k3.7k139889
39Nov 20, '23did satya just aquihire openai for $015×455k5.1k283146
40Jun 7, '25memory in chatgpt is completely cooked. it's literally made it impossible to use chatgpt. you have to turn it off to trust any answer.13.8×418k3.8k73500
41Jan 21, '25i don't think people get how important it is that america wins this race13.6×412k6.3k319456
42Feb 10, '25if o3 was the 175th best programmer in the world, every company in the world immediately stop hiring software engineers. we clearly need a better way of measuring what LLMs are cap13.5×408k3.8k101325
43Oct 23, '25i don't use dating apps anymore, but i've seen this first hand. after a relationship, i'd re-download the apps and it was all... the same... people...13.4×408k6.7k136627
44May 14, '24ChatGPT incognito mode this can only mean one thing…13.4×406k3.1k30207
47Mar 31, '25another emergent 4o capability -- shockingly good object segmentation. non-LIDAR self-driving might just work.11.4×345k2.1k40399
48Jan 15, '25pgvector is insane. i don't understand why vector databases exist.11.4×345k2k641.1k
49Apr 17, '25models don't know how to use cursor anymore. they're all being optimized for terminal. that's why 3.7 is and o3 are so awful in Cursor, and so amazing outside of it.11.3×344k2.2k45596
50Feb 20, '24someone should make a dating app where an LLM clone of you goes on thousands of dates with LLM clones of other people, and then your matches are when the LLMs decide to date each o11.3×343k2.4k86543
51Jan 16, '25i just gave o1 an email address. now i can just forward entire email threads (including pdf attachments), ask it for thoughts, and get the response back whenever i want.10.9×329k1.6k421.3k
52Apr 15, '25idk how @sama saved openai. literally everyone left him, and it didn't matter. i wouldn't bet against him.10.8×328k2.9k70319
53Feb 25, '25the @cursor_ai folks got so much right, so early. 1.5 years ago, before anyone had really heard of cursor, we were building a really slick vscode extension called "sidekick" -- thi10.8×327k1.4k29692
54Oct 22, '24anthropic 2 years ago: we need to stop AGI from destroying the world anthropic now: what if we gave AI unfettered access to a computer and train it to have ADHD10.8×327k2.3k109322
56Oct 17, '25probably one of the worst takes i've ever heard in my life10.1×305k3.1k78191
57Jul 1, '25.@cursor_ai hired the lead engineer + product manager on claude code (the only anthropic product i use right now)10×305k1.4k65406
58Jul 23, '25evil.9.6×291k6.2k81299
59Aug 13, '25ok confession: for the last 2 days, i accidentally switched to "gpt-5" in cursor. it was really awful. i started to think that you were right about it being bad. today i switched b9.6×291k1.3k20229
60Apr 8, '253.7-sonnet is the sneakiest model i've ever used. it's constantly faking tests, hardcoding stuff, and will keep doing it even when called out.9.4×285k3k68259
61Jul 26, '25we recently interviewed someone that was presumably using cluely, or some AI tool. it was probably the most dystopian thing i've ever experienced. he was saying words, but none of 9.1×275k4.2k52388
62Mar 27, '25the way that studio ghibli makes you feel is a non-renewable resource, like oil. it comes directly from the films that were produced. yesterday, 99% of that oil was extracted and b9.0×272k3.7k102372
63Feb 7, '25i can't stop watching this. it makes me feel deeply sad for a reason i can't articulate.8.8×266k2.4k85873
64Mar 3, '253.7 performs really well in claude dot com, but really bad in cursor. i switched back to 3.5.8.7×265k1.7k25199
65Feb 18, '25wild graph from openai sonnet 3.5 > o18.7×263k1.7k33149
66Oct 21, '25giving chatgpt access to my keychain will probably be a no for me.8.3×251k3.6k77158
68Jul 10, '25this xAI livestream is one of the worst things I've ever watched in my life. love ya'll, but it's bad.7.6×230k1.5k13107
69Nov 14, '242 days later, ChatGPT launches this7.4×224k1.3k21258
72Oct 2, '25i think it's so beautiful when women just embrace how they look naturally. no make up, no filters. just raw authenticity.6.8×206k1.5k16129
73Oct 14, '25one time i asked out my local barista. on the date, she asked when i knew she was hitting me and i told her it was when she put a heart in my latte. she looked really confused and 6.6×200k7.2k62309
74Feb 10, '25will anthropic acquire cursor, or will cursor acquire anthropic?6.5×196k1.6k30115
76Nov 22, '24working on a project for a new client (can't say who) any feedback?6.2×188k3.4k4783
77Sep 17Today, we are announcing our Series A and a new product: @raindrop_ai Simulations. We've now raised $50m from @CRV and @lightspeedvp to protect the world from agent failures, big a6.1×184k1.2k81314
78Apr 22, '24love walking by this victorian designed by jony ive5.7×172k1.5k31260
79Oct 15, '25in 2026, the U.S. Mint will be releasing a $1 coin with Steve Jobs on it. "Make Something Wonderful" It's so, so beautiful5.6×168k2.5k85357
81Jul 23, '25cursor right before proposing the most mind-blowingly dumb suggestion you've ever seen5.4×164k3.6k103154
82Oct 16, '25cluely status page lmao5.4×163k1.3k15146
83Sep 2, '25i've met a lot of engineers one-shotted by cursor. feels like a drug. they can't think for themselves. they can't write tests. they can't explain their code. they can't write docum5.1×153k1.3k32268
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86Oct 14, '25i can't tell you how many design sprints i've seen start with a reference like this and end up with a grid system.4.5×137k1.9k42348
87Jul 22, '25chatgpt will answer a question entirely different depending on: 1. how you ask the question 2. what you were talking about right before and 99% of people have no idea.4.2×128k2.2k88331
88Jan 27, '25so we're done with ai safety now, right?4.0×122k1.8k6671
90Mar 3, '25feels like anthropic gave 3.7 autism, but openai made 4.5 a chill guy. too soon to say which strategy will win.4.0×121k1.6k36121
91Jan 11, '25guy mansplaining react to the creator of react in my comments. this truly is the everything app.4.0×121k1.8k43136
92Feb 4, '25i got approval to share a small part of my moodboard3.8×116k1.6k47101
96Oct 16, '25in personal news, i hit 5x 150lbs on overhead press2.9×87k1.4k759
97Jul 3, '24aged like wine2.7×83k1.6k53143
98Jun 10, '24AAPL immediately pumped at the mention of calculator for iPad.2.7×81k1.5k5137
100Aug 12, '25i know i'm going to get shadow-banned for this, but.... this is officially the new ugliest logo i've ever seen, from any company, at any point in history, ever. the last ugliest lo2.3×70k1.3k1617
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