MODEL HUMAN CARD

class: friendly troublemaker

muskalla/benny-86B86 billion neurons, the usual estimate for an adult human brain. Parameter count unknown; synapses would put it nearer 100T.

  • human
  • engineering-leadership
  • product ↔ research
  • coding-agents
  • rl-environments
  • post-training
  • evals

Benjamin Muskalla. I lead the teams at poolside that turn frontier models into coding agents, and production signal back into evals, RL environments and post-training. Before that, founding team of GitHub Copilot.

Benjamin Muskalla
fig. 1 — the human, Germany
pretrained on
Open source since 2006 · scaling early-stage startups from the inside · developer tools all the way down · Java Champion
known limitations
Impatient with process that doesn't ship. Asks what the eval says before what the roadmap says. Still reads the pull request.
latest output
OpenAPI specs as RL gyms 2026-09-26
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