ben hylak ✓

@benhylak · sf via pennsylvania · joined 30 Jul 2009

aspiring optimist. cto @raindrop_ai, prev @apple design, @spacex avionics

52 336Followers

2 737Following

11 426Posts total

893KViews on collected posts

Against accounts of the same size

7 posts from the last 90 days, next to the 10K–100K follower range. shown widely, but few of those viewers react.

Median views72 743this account2 896median for 10K–100K

Reach, %138.99%this account9.51%median for 10K–100K

Engagement, %0.75%this account1.56%median for 10K–100K

Metric	This account	Median for 10K–100K	Ratio
Median views per post	72 743	2 896	25.1×
Reach (views ÷ followers)	138.99%	9.51%	14.6×
Engagement rate	0.75%	1.56%	0.48×

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Growth & engagement

How the posts we collected actually performed: views and reaction rate post by post, what the audience did with them, and where the follower count goes.

Views per post

155.1K11 Aug

72.7K2 Sep

436.5K

217.2K

4.3K3 Sep

3.2K

Last 7 collected posts, oldest on the left. The scale is logarithmic: one post can outrun the rest a hundred times over.

Engagement rate per post

0.75%11 Aug

0.69%2 Sep

0.75%

1.24%

2.35%3 Sep

0.41%

Reactions — likes, reposts, replies and quotes — divided by views. Median for 10K–100K accounts is 1.56%.

What the audience does

Likes74.6%7 080 in total

Reposts4.0%379 in total

Replies2.4%228 in total

Quotes0.9%89 in total

Bookmarks18.1%1 719 in total

Share of every reaction we collected for this account. Replies mean argument, reposts mean endorsement, bookmarks mean the post was worth keeping.

The follower curve appears once this account has two daily snapshots — we take one a day, and this one is on its first.

Latest posts

excuse me? https://t.co/lc3Kz5K9ow 3.2K views · 10 likes · 0 reposts · 3 replies 03 Sep 2026 telling an agent "thank you" will cost u a dollar kinda messed up tbh 4.3K views · 87 likes · 0 reposts · 14 replies 03 Sep 2026 in march, we wrote an article that called monitoring agents one of humanity's most important problems. at the time, that seemed like an insane thing to say. now, it feels increasingly obvious. 🧵blog below https://t.co/9aSIItmTfa 4K views · 44 likes · 3 reposts · 3 replies 02 Sep 2026 this is going to be a really big deal in ~1-2 years 217.2K views · 2.6K likes · 83 reposts · 27 replies 02 Sep 2026 Claude Fable 5.1 is a beast at agentic CAD! At Max effort it's the most capable model we've tested so far. Here, inside Adam's harness in Fusion, it rebuilt the SO-101 gripper around the stock servo and mounted a real Pi Camera Module 3 from the official STEP. https://t.co/J3Hg 436.5K views · 2.9K likes · 206 reposts · 70 replies 02 Sep 2026 *monitor-ability* is the invariant that must be preserved, and the real solution will be via strong mechanistic interpretability. i predict in the next year there’ll be mechinterp monitoring that’s pareto optimal to cot monitors 72.7K views · 433 likes · 15 reposts · 38 replies 02 Sep 2026 introducing rd-signal-2: a frontier classification model that is 1600x cheaper than GPT 5.6 Sol. free to try in @raindrop_ai, and available via a new API for training/hosting custom classifiers with Zero Data Retention. https://t.co/fYvtAa8mTR 155.1K views · 993 likes · 72 reposts · 73 replies 11 Aug 2026