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Ben Vinegar

What Ben Vinegar thinks about open source

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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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2 dated positions, 2025 to 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 readingAnyone getting into making software should first build open source and show they can get anybody to use anything, because that is really hard.

    Their wordsmy advice to people is like you know if you want to get into software um i actually encourage you to build open source software first and demonstrate that you can actually get anybody to use anything because it's really hard

    ↗Is Agent Harness relevant in 2026 | Ben Vinegar (Co-founder, Modem.dev)youtube.com 1st of 2 in this recording

  2. 8 months earlier

  3. Our readingDemand for open source feels lower than it has in a while, because people can generate the code they want and companies will use whatever gets them to market fastest, black box or not.

    Their wordsFeels like the demand for OSS hasn't felt this low in a while: 1. People can just codegen what they want 2. Companies will use whatever gets them to market faster to capitalize on AI – if it's a black box so what

    ↗@benv.ca on Blueskybsky.app