Ben Hanzl

Honeycomb is proud to be named a Visionary in the 2025 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Observability Platforms.

Thank you to our customers and community for pushing us forward every day.

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The last year six months in LLMs, illustrated by pelicans on bicycles I presented an invited keynote at the AI Engineer World’s Fair in San Francisco this week. This is my third time speaking at the event—here’s my talks from October 2023 …

Here's video, slides and a detailed annotated transcript from my talk at this week's AI Engineer World's Fair conference in San Francisco - "The last year six months in LLMs, illustrated by pelicans on bicycles" simonwillison.net/2025/Jun/6/s...

One interesting outcome of building AI applications/products (those on top of LLMs):

o11y (observability) becomes SO important! You need to monitor, monitor, monitor; alert, alert alert!!

This is b/c LLMs are nondeterministic: so you can forget automated testing.

Big change

We’re hiring an AI engineer on my team. We move quickly, work with an experiment-first mindset, and everyone is expected to have product-minded thinking.

LMK if interested!

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The best customers are ones that make your product better. Huge thanks to the @honeycomb.io team for co-designing new PagerDuty insights with us! Special shout-outs to @ferd.ca and @another-engineer.bsky.social in particular. 🙏

AI can help us if and only if we use it to augment our judgment instead of replacing our judgment.

if you have a @github.com profile, can i ask you to update it with your @bsky.app handle? 🙏

👉 it enables some very cool integrations, like auto curated feeds and starter packs for contributors and tech

Hello 👋

I'm Ben, an Engineering Manager at Honeycomb.io (and a few other startups prior). I'm here to learn from you and occasionally share my thoughts about tech and leadership.

🏡 Living in Charlotte, NC.
👷 Work at @honeycomb.bsky.social
✍️ One day, I will write at benhanzl.com

#introduction

A great list of Tech Leaders

go.bsky.app/J3W39y1

Wow SO MANY interesting people tech folks in the replies.

And even more useful thematic “starter packs” linked in replies (eg Android engineers, eng managers, infrastructure engineers, geospatial engineers etc).

If you are looking for interesting techies to follow: look at replies 👇