MODEL HUMAN CARD

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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
The half-life of engineering best practices 2026-09-17
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