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Hometown baseball games with my wife are a pretty good way to spend a summer Saturday night
ALT Photograph of a baseball field from behind the home team dugout. The away team is at bat to the left with the umpire and catcher visible behind them. The third baseman is visible to the right. Behind the field is the town hall and a Carolina sunset.
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y'all have some busted builds but we love you anyway 🫶🏻
Jun 12
Cheers to everyone who tried Prisma Compute!
We watched the first signals and improved a bunch of things already: better support for different Next.js configs, database environment variable issues gone, build logs got much more useful!
Go check it out: prisma.io/docs/compute
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Once agents make code cheap, the bottleneck moves to everything around it. Databases, deploys, logs, previews, fixes.
Prisma Compute is our next step toward making that loop feel like one place, not five.
Agents changed how fast we can build software
But shipping still feels slower than it should, because your app, database, deploys, logs, and previews all live in different places
Prisma Compute is our next step toward bringing that whole loop together
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Prisma Compute is here! We've been reimagining what a TypeScript first deployment platform looks like. Built on the best technology and wrapped in a CLI optimized for both humans and agents. Give it a try and let us know what you think
Agents changed how fast we can build software
But shipping still feels slower than it should, because your app, database, deploys, logs, and previews all live in different places
Prisma Compute is our next step toward bringing that whole loop together
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Composition wins even harder when agents are generating code. They will create an overcomplicated, fragile mess working around restrictive APIs or eagerly expand the surface to handle yet another use case. Give them composable primitives and they will nail it every time though
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It took me too long to lean into voice dictation. I'm trying out different options and all of them are a net improvement to my workflow.
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Garden update. Rebuilt half the boxes with cedar this year and added a paver border that still needs some love. The season is off to a good start
ALT A home garden with raw wood boxes and various vegetables and flowers. Backdropped by trees and a clear blue sky
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May 31
Lots of great takes in Kent's video that will hold true over time. I especially agree with the emphasis on ownership and accountability driving you toward building the right thing. Code is cheap but your time and attention are not.
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I had some aspects of this in my /project-spec skill already and it's now more explicit.
- How do we measure success?
- What are the downstream effects?
- Why should we _not_ do this?
github.com/rtbenfield/agent-…
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May 28
I just used this to map out all the code paths that would need updating to introduce an AbortSignal into a library entrypoint. So intuitive to review and execute. Thanks again @dillon_mulroy
May 28
my "plans" largely look like pseudo code composed of mostly types/interfaces, how they compose, and their boundaries
ive recently started including call stacks - been very helpful for both me and agents when implementing
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I'll be speaking at Carolina Code Conference this year in Greenville, SC! Let's talk about microVMs, unikernels, and the future of cloud infrastructure
Announcing our 2026 Speakers!: 30 incredible speakers & a special Memorial Day opportunity! blog.carolina.codes/p/announ…
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May 22
2026 also means updated standards
- query results are AsyncIterable, stream them
- queries accept AbortSignal, cancel them
Lots more to Prisma Next but these are subtle improvements I'm finding useful
Prisma Next is the version of Prisma ORM we would’ve created if we started from scratch based on the tech landscape of the late 2020s.
And after months of hard work, it’s finally in Early Access 🚀
Run "npm create prisma@next" and try it today with @PostgreSQL or @MongoDB.
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May 21
Prisma Next allows extensions to contribute custom data types that flow into the schema language, results, and even filtering criteria. This is one of my favorite features because it addresses so many Postgres extension requests from the past by making the core extensible.
CipherStash Prisma Next integration just shipped 🚀
Add cipherstash.EncryptedString() to your contract for searchable encryption.
Encrypted data stays queryable, your rules live in the contract & plaintext only appears when you explicitly decrypt it.
pris.ly/cipherstash-p-blog
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May 20
Will and the team took on an incredibly ambitious project to rewrite the Prisma ORM and they nailed the execution. The internal mechanics are a work of art.
I'm truly excited to share what we achieved with @MongoDB and @prisma Next. Fully type-safe aggregation pipelines, an ODM with polymorphism and embedded documents, and - for the first time - migrations, for MongoDB.
This is the TS ODM you always wanted.
mongodb.com/company/blog/tec…
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May 19
I've been quiet on here for a while. I took some time to disconnect, recharge, and touch grass on the other side of the world.
ALT A photo of a lake reflecting a partially cloudy sky and surrounded by mountains.
ALT A photo overlooking a waterfall cutting through rainforest covered mountains and into a river running away from the photographer. A rainbow crosses over the waterfall.
ALT A photo of Tyler and Kira standing in front of a waterfall. The photo is distant and angled to show the height of the rocky cliff the water flows over.
ALT A photo from atop a small mountain overlooking a lake with more mountains on the other side. Red tree blossoms are in focus on the left and right of the scene.
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It's Miami. You're going to need sunglasses.
Find Mike @mhartington, Tyler @rtbenfield or Aidan @aidankmcalister at @ReactMiamiConf and grab a free pair on us. 😎
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let's go
ALT Delta Airlines gate screen showing a destination of Miami
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Tyler Benfield retweeted
Jan 23
Unfortunately Remix Austin, the meetup I've been running for 4 years, no longer has place to regularly meet
If you're in Austin and would be interested in hosting (just location, we've got food and drink covered), please let me know!
- ~25-30 attendees
- 700 meetup members
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3 Dec 2025
I'm stoked to chat with my friends @tdesseyn and @TasonJorres tomorrow and share my advice on acing your interviews. I hope you'll join us
3 Dec 2025
Job search feels like Dark Souls? 🔥💀
Join @TasonJorres & @tdesseyn with guest @rtbenfield (Staff Engineer at Prisma!) for real talk on resumes, AI skills, and interviews that don’t tank.
Dec 4 · 11:30 AM EST — Discord only.
RSVP or regret it later → luma.com/user/torc
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