Ben Ashdown @bashdown4

Ex-Google. Co-founder of Preemption. San Francisco Joined December 2016

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Ben Ashdown @bashdown4

4 months ago

Hello, world. I am expressing agency.

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Ben Ashdown @bashdown4

4 months ago

Sitting here working on building my startup while watching live developments in a war on my other screen feels so surreal

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There's something about Google that is so... intelligently balanced. Things tend to have a feel that somebody has thought about it deeply, and made the correct tradeoff decisions. Wish I knew how to replicate it better.

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Ben Ashdown @bashdown4

4 months ago

Gluing JavaScript libraries together is the original vibe coding 😎

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