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James Bennett
Followers
1.1K
Account age
3 yrs
🎁 Free analysisfor James Bennett

Known for

📊 Post engagement

Recent posts · likes + reposts
Aug 5latest
29
Avg engagement / post
4–45
Typical post (engagement)
2.6%
Engagement vs followers
46/100
Variable reach
Nov 2022
On Mastodon since
Half of recent posts land between 4 and 45 likes + reposts (median 18) — reach is spiky, driven by the occasional post that pops.

🔥 Top post: So. I now have a few months' more experience with LLMs than I di · 121 likes + reposts

📊 Activity & format

Posting cadence
3.8 / week
Posts several times a week.
Content mix
Mostly text
Recent: 10 text · 2 image · 0 video.
Follower / following
15×
Follows 75 back. A strong ratio — an audience that follows them, not a follow-for-follow network.
🔥 Top post So. I now have a few months' more experience with LLMs than I did when I wrote that post and everyone said I just needed more experience with LLMs. And my opinion has not become any more favorable. The bottleneck still is not speed of code generation, and even if it did become t… ★ 121
And yes, I know, but I’m not going to give any more detail than that. ★ 2 That someone who was always a huge asshole in the Before Times still is apparently a huge asshole, But Now With AI, was one of the less surprising things I learned today. ★ 2 I’d be lying if I said I didn’t get lucky on one of them. 🗺️ August 23, 2026 5/5 countries in 5/13 guesses 🟢🟢🟢🟢🟢 https://whereabouts.earth/daily/ #Whereabouts ★ 6 OK, so I appear to have solved this. In case anyone else runs into the same problem: I had 1Password 6 on desktop, and 1Password 7 on mobile, syncing via local wifi. And 1Password 7 for mobile *is* interoperable with the current SaaS-backe… ★ 2 Once upon a time I bought 1Password. Back when it was a thing you could just buy and use. But the last version I bought was an Intel Mac app, and macOS keeps reminding me it will stop working soon. So I went and paid the yearly fee to get … ★ 4 Ah yes, the three genders. ★ 18 Last year @yossarian wrote a brief post on the surprising complexity of the #Python "splitlines()" method. As a busy Unicode pedant, it took me a while to write up something explaining *why* it's complex, but here it finally is: https://ww… ★ 45 RE: https://infosec.exchange/@ubernostrum/117005003995185703 Tech press seem to have noticed this now. https://www.theregister.com/ai-and-ml/2026/08/03/as-larry-ellison-bets-the-farm-oracle-says-it-loves-ai-written-code-just-not-in-openjdk… ★ 6 And we're also having all of our pull requests auto-reviewed by an LLM, which again is underwhelming at best. The first day that was turned on I got a dozen review comments from the LLM. One of them, a typo in a Python docstring, was corre… ★ 28 At both my current company and the company I worked for before this one, I've been on teams which heavily used LLMs to generate code. And as a result, a growing portion of my own work is carefully reading and then rewriting LLM-generated c… ★ 59 A few months back I published a blog post (see link) where I looked at LLM coding from a few different perspectives. And even though I said explicitly in the post that I personally haven't seen much gain from LLMs, and preferred to focus o… ★ 50

🐘 Community & instance

Home server
infosec.exchange
A cybersecurity & infosec server — its members and audience skew toward that niche, so expect a community-aligned, engaged following.
✅ Link-verified
Verified link
Proved ownership of a website linked on their profile — Mastodon's green-check verification, a real identity signal rather than a paid badge.
On Mastodon since
Nov 2022
Joined in the Twitter-exodus wave of late 2022 — part of the migration that made Mastodon a real destination.

💡 Facts

🗓️Joined Mastodon in 2022 — 3 years ago.
👁️Averages 29 views per post.
📤Posts about 3.8× per week.

🕵️ Fake follower check

Estimated
75/100
Good Credibility score
92%
Real Real audience
Low Fake-follower risk
High Data confidence
  • Est. 92% real, active audience · Low fake-follower risk.
  • Engagement (~2.6% of followers engage each post) is around typical for Mastodon.
  • Verified account.
  • Established account (3+ years old).

Heuristic estimate from engagement, follower ratios, account age & growth — a screening signal, not a guarantee.

About

The man with the plan and the pocket comb.
 Ex-Mozillian. I have enough opinions of my own to tell you about, without wasting time trying to give you my employer's. Don't forget to tip your servers and normalize your Unicode.

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