A programmer & lifelong learner — writing about tech, culture, and life.
I'm Ben — I live in Canberra, Australia, and spend my days building products with AI. This is where I write about what I’m working on, plus culture, life, and whatever hobbies I'm into at the moment. Thanks for stopping by.
Recent
- Have Prompt Engineers Disappeared? First Principles for Prompting in the Agent Era
As prompts become part of the agent harness, the work expands from phrasing to task specifications, context, tools, permissions and evals. This article returns to how language models generate answers, then works out what a useful prompt needs today.
- How AI Search Picks Its Sources: The Mechanics, Evidence, and Myths of GEO
Most GEO advice never separates getting found from getting cited. Here are the six gates a page passes before it lands in an AI answer, what the big AI companies have actually published, what the research really found, and which popular tips fall apart when you check them.
- What a Security Clearance Is for IT Jobs in Canberra
Canberra's IT job ads may include a second eligibility screen alongside the technical requirements. Notes on clearance levels, the application process, what gets investigated, and the obligations that follow — compiled from Australian Government sources.