AI Developer Ben Tossell Shares Context Management Insights and Tech Updates
On Tuesday, Ben Tossell, the founder of Ben's Bites, will head to San Francisco to engage in discussions regarding $100,000 investments in development tools through Ben's Bites Fund II and to meet with limited partners. Due to the absence of WiFi during his flight, he preloaded Gemma 4: 26b for offline access. Tossell points out the difficulties in managing AI context, recommending that context windows remain under 60% capacity and suggesting the use of distinct sessions for data collection. He expresses doubt about the viability of 1M context windows, citing Thariq from Anthropic. The newsletter also covers updates on AI tools, including the Claude Code redesign, Gemini's Mac application, and GPT-5.4-Cyber. The 'Afters' section features tweets on AI advancements and is sponsored by Attio, an AI CRM.
Key facts
- Ben Tossell is traveling to San Francisco to give a talk and invest $100,000 in dev tools founders.
- Ben's Bites Fund II has started investing and he is meeting with LPs.
- He downloaded Gemma 4: 26b for offline AI agent use due to no WiFi on his flight.
- Tossell discusses context management challenges, advising to keep context windows below 60% capacity.
- He references a post by Thariq from Anthropic about 1M context windows, preferring limits around 150,000 tokens.
- New AI models include GPT-5.4-Cyber from OpenAI and Gemini 3.1 Flash TTS from Google.
- Claude Code's desktop was redesigned, and Gemini has a native Mac app with limited features.
- OpenAI's Agents SDK now allows running Codex-style agents in production with built-in features.
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Artists
- Ben Tossell
- Thariq
- Logan Kilpatrick
- Brayden Wilmoth
- Julian Weisser
- Rahul
- Chris Tate
- Daniel
- Keshavatearth
- Shanice
- K
Institutions
- Ben's Bites
- Anthropic
- OpenAI
- Attio
- Claude Code
- Gauntlet
- Cursor
- Resend
- Every
- Lindy AI
- OpenRouter
- Microsoft
- Harvard
- Cloudflare
- Google Research
- Julius AI
- Solo Founders Podcast
- Pipecat
- Supabase
- Linear
- n8n
- OpenClaw
- Windsurf
- Devin
- Sparkle
- Impeccable
- Fabula
- wterm
- Ben's Bites Fund II
Locations
- San Francisco
- SF
- United States
- US