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Ben Vinegar

What Ben Vinegar thinks about coding agents

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Co-founder of Modem, and before it VP of Engineering at Sentry. Joined Sentry as its founding engineer; builds hunk.dev and runs the DevTools Toronto meetup. Posts as @bentlegen.

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4 dated positions, 2026, in their own words. Our reading of what Ben Vinegar has said — not written or endorsed by them.

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  1. Our readingSoftware only gets good by being used a lot by the people building it, so time spent inside coding agents instead of the app is time that makes the app worse.

    Their wordsto make *actually* good software, you have to use it a lot but many people are spending more time in their coding agents/factories than in the apps they're building - so they won't

    ↗@bentlegen on Xx.com

  2. 3 days earlier

  3. Our readingWith coding agents, working out the shape in lower-fidelity mock-ups first beats having the agent build it and then fixing the code: it takes fewer tokens and puts you on a better path.

    Their wordsWhereas when you're, when you're ripping on just like a lower fidelity mock -ups that might be like 80 % fidelity that kind of tell you the shape, like you, it takes less tokens. The agent takes less time to generate it. It puts you on the better path going forward.

    ↗Sentry Startup Spotlight with Ben Vinegar Founder of Modemyoutube.com 1st of 2 in this recording

  4. 4 weeks earlier

  5. Our readingAsked to find a deep bug, coding agents can patch many small issues that feel like progress while steering you away from the real problem; there is still no substitute for expertise.

    Their wordsThat uncovered many small issues and patched them - enough to feel like we were making progress - but it steered us away from the *real* problem There’s still no substitute for expertise

    ↗@bentlegen on Xx.com

  6. 8 weeks earlier

  7. Our readingCoding agents make doing things on Linux far more approachable.

    Linux

    Their wordsI just wanna make a comment that like coding agents make you doing stuff on Linux way more approachable.

    ↗Draw in your terminal! tmux + Terminal Maxxing w/ Ben Vinegar (Syntax)youtube.com 2nd of 2 in this recording