Ben Borgers

There are many reasons to write by hand, instead of using AI.

Last month, a Brown professor wrote about discovering that a majority of his students had used AI to cheat on his take-home exam.

people are trying to codify coding agents into best practices "opus plan, codex execute" "spend tons of time planning" (update: no one cares, agents got better at understanding intent) "learn context management" (update: no one cares, compaction is good n…

When coding with agents, if you don't add a feedback loop, you're the feedback loop.

Two months ago, I bought a Mac Mini and spent the weekend furiously building a small clone of OpenClaw so I could text with Claude over iMessage.

Recently, at work, I've seen the beginnings of a proliferation of microservices.

Two days ago, OpenAI released GPT-5.3-Codex-Spark.

Previously: Summer 2025 I feel pretty settled in Boston with my post-grad job.

I recently realized that 90% of the code I write for work is written by coding agents like Claude Code or Amp.

Companies have a natural urge to get things under control, and standardize.

This week, I've been voraciously using Claude Code on the web.

One of my favorite coding agents, Amp, released a free ad-supported version of their product today.

The other day, I saw a colleague ask a specific question about the inner workings of the app that my team works on.

I've always loved the ability to run a local web app you're developing against production infrastructure.

Here's an important tidbit I learned at Locket: Let's say you're building a mobile app.

Last summer, when I was working at Notion, I felt really viscerally that Notion sees itself as a tool for making software.

"I was at a college campus… last semester, and I asked the students in the CS program, 'What do they ask you about agentic coding?

You might notice that, somewhere on this page (depending on the redesign I'm not sure where) there should be a list of "related posts."

In retrospect, I would have taken different classes.

"talk to you next month!"

Somerville, Massachusetts (where Tufts University is located) has some of the stickiest resident parking permits down to man.

3.5 years ago, I wrote The Beginning of College Sucks.

This past year at Tufts, I was a TA for CS 40: Machine Structure and Assembly Language Programming.

I graduated three days ago from Tufts.

One of the biggest things I've learned from running JumboCode this year is to stop lying to yourself about how interesting your events actually are.

Embarrassingly, I got enough parking tickets in 2024 to warrant a Parking Tickets Wrapped.

I seem to redesign my website 2-3 times per year.

A year ago, I wrote a list of the projects I wanted to get done over winter break.

One of my favorite assignments this semester—of my entire college career, in fact—was a recent one in CS 117: Internet-scale Distributed Systems.

Every semester, I see a bit more ChatGPT being used in classes.

Some thoughts on AI and LLMs, based on being Head of Engineering for JumboCode, a club of 180 students at Tufts University that builds software for non-profits.

A year and a half ago, the dining hall would run out of forks every evening.

My parents and I traveled to Germany and the Netherlands from May 10th, 2024 to May 17th, 2024.

Two weeks ago, Jerome and I won Tufts' first hackathon in 5 years!

For Christmas, I gave my parents this e-ink picture frame (built from an old e-reader) that cycles through photos from a shared iCloud photo album: It's a re-worked version of a gift that I gave to my girlfriend in October, except that one was in a smaller

This is the first time I've done a year in review.

Of the things you do in life, 5% are guaranteed to go wrong.

I finished my semester yesterday!

A few weeks ago, I got scammed buying a camera on Facebook Marketplace.

I wanted to build an ask-for-help form into an app that my JumboCode team built, in case the client had questions after we handed it off: But in true fashion, I decided to over engineer it.

Greetings from Croatia!

This is an idea for JumboCode (What is JumboCode?)

JumboCode is a club at Tufts that builds apps for non-profits.

For the past few days, I’ve been building an app for myself called Stickies.

JumboCode is a club at Tufts that I’ve written about before.

A few months ago, I wrote a blog post about my recent decision to: Major in Computer Science (this was not a recent decision) Major in Engineering Psychology Minor in German The main reasons I gave were: Lots of free space in my schedule (Computer Science…

This year, I’m involved in a club called JumboCode at Tufts.

My favorite features that I’ve added to War Room over the past year are expansion features, features that’ve allowed people (and me) to use War Room more.

A couple months ago, I finally added the ability to set due dates for tasks in War Room.

It’s been a long-standing request in War Room to be able to add a task directly into a “divider,” instead of creating it and then dragging it into the right divider.