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Ben Davis

@bmdavis419 on YouTube since Sep 28, 2022

I do dev stuff and talk about whatever I'm currently nerd sniped by

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Subscribers: 45.9K
Total views: 2.9M
Videos: 205
Median views: 21.4K; Shorts: 6.9K
Cadence: 1.2/wk; 1.2/wk long · 0/wk shorts
Average length: 21 min; Median 21 min

What their videos do

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How they publish

Content mix: 100% long · 0% shorts
Best day: Wednesday
37.6K median
Best length: 10–20 min
22.8K median
Sponsored: 2%
of long-form videos
Views per subscriber: 0.47

Outliers

Their top videos

13% at ×2+

×7.821:27

How I Turned Pi Into the Ultimate Coding Agent

Ben Davis166K viewsMay 15

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This Model Ruined Every Other Model For Me

Ben Davis84.6K viewsSep 5

×3.425:08

How I'm Actually Using AI These Days

Ben Davis73.5K viewsSep 15

×2.915:41

I Moved From MacOS to Linux

Ben Davis62.8K viewsSep 9

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Trust Me, You Should Try It	Oct 15	14:35	15.7K	×0.7
Better Than LLMs?	Oct 10	17:40	21.9K	×1.0
Are These Actually Useful?	Oct 7	20:32	37.6K	×1.8
So Who Won?	Oct 2	22:07	51.1K	×2.4
It's Pretty Disappointing...	Sep 24	17:48	29.3K	×1.4
Programming Feels Very Different	Sep 19	18:06	61.7K	×2.9
How I'm Actually Using AI These Days	Sep 15	25:08	73.5K	×3.4
I Moved From MacOS to Linux	Sep 9	15:41	62.8K	×2.9
This Model Ruined Every Other Model For Me	Sep 5	30:34	84.6K	×4.0
OpenAI and Anthropic Finally Have Competition	Aug 20	26:05	13.9K	×0.7
I Burned 30 Billion Tokens on These Puzzles and It Changed How I Look at AI	Aug 17	21:41	6.3K	×0.3
How I Decide When I Should Use Claude or GPT or Something Else...	Aug 7	21:26	21.4K	×1.0
I Really Liked Opus 5, Then I Used It More...	Jul 31	16:35	25K	×1.2	–
I Created the Ultimate Coding Agent by Combining Pi, Codex, and Claude Code...	Jul 24	30:35	51.7K	×2.4	–
How I Use GPT-5.6 Sol After ~30B Tokens of Experience	Jul 16	27:50	20K	×0.9	–
GPT-5.6 is better than Fable	Jul 10	29:57	23.9K	×1.1	–
Can Open Source Models Compete with the Frontier?	Jun 23	22:58	20.5K	×1.0	–
My New Favorite Agent	Jun 16	24:41	17.6K	×0.8	–
I was wrong about Claude Fable 5 (Mythos), it's incredible.	Jun 10	27:07	22K	×1.0	–
Why I spent $7,189 on my home server...	Jun 8	15:34	13.2K	×0.6	–
I Might Have Been Wrong About Claude...	Jun 1	25:56	14.3K	×0.7	–
I was wrong about GPT 5.5	May 28	17:34	22.8K	×1.1	–
I Replaced the Project I Spent Months on With a Markdown File	May 19	23:57	24K	×1.1	–
How I Turned Pi Into the Ultimate Coding Agent	May 15	21:27	166K	×7.8	–
GPT-5.5 is the best model ever made (but there's a catch)	May 4	28:52	23.7K	×1.1	–
I tried every AI dev tool so you don't have to	Apr 3	21:25	15.2K	×0.7	–
Pi: The Best Coding Agent You've (Probably) Never Heard Of	Apr 1	22:03	53.4K	×2.5	–
A Better Way for Agents to Call Tools	Mar 23	14:46	9.5K	×0.4	–
Why is Everyone Switching to Svelte?	Mar 19	23:03	33.7K	×1.6	–
Stop Sleeping on the Mini Models (5.4 Mini is Insane)	Mar 17	11:05	12.9K	×0.6	–
I Was Wrong About MCP	Mar 16	22:54	9.1K	×0.4	–
GPT-5.4: The Best Model That's Almost Perfect	Mar 5	28:29	18.6K	×0.9	–
My Favorite TypeScript Library Just Got So Much Better	Mar 3	25:21	13.7K	×0.6	–
The Problem With Gemini 3.1 Pro	Mar 1	23:41	12.2K	×0.6	–
I Was Wrong About GPT Models (5.3 Codex is Insane)	Feb 7	29:02	14K	×0.7	–
The Codex App Surprised Me...	Feb 3	28:02	17.8K	×0.8	–
I Hated Monorepos, Now I Can't Build Without Them	Feb 1	16:18	31.6K	×1.5	–
How I'm Building Stuff in 2026	Jan 30	37:28	13.7K	×0.6	–
You Should Try Solid	Jan 19	31:03	19.3K	×0.9	–
I Can't Believe This Actually Works	Jan 16	20:45	30.3K	×1.4	–
Hey Anthropic, WTF	Jan 9	12:49	25.3K	×1.2	–
The AI SDK Killer is Here...	Jan 8	26:18	13.1K	×0.6	–
This is THE Framework You Should be Using in 2026	Jan 6	20:33	24.1K	×1.1	–
The Best Coding Agent is... (and how I use them)	Dec 12, 2025	19:56	35.2K	×1.6	–
Opus 4.5 Just Destroyed Gemini 3 Pro...	Nov 25, 2025	13:01	16.6K	×0.8	–
Maybe I Was Wrong About Effect... (is it really worth it?)	Nov 20, 2025	26:50	20.5K	×1.0	–
What's the Best Way to Deploy Your Apps?Sponsored	Nov 7, 2025	21:18	21.3K	×1.0	–
The Real Reason GPT-5 Sucks	Nov 5, 2025	15:27	7.9K	×0.4	–
The Real NextJS Killer is Finally Here...	Nov 3, 2025	15:06	25.5K	×1.2	–
If You're Sick of React, Watch This...	Oct 15, 2025	10:42	7.7K	×0.4	–
I Was Wrong About Svelte...	Oct 12, 2025	9:00	29.5K	×1.4	–
My Mac Sucked, Here's How I Fixed It...	Oct 8, 2025	19:53	38.6K	×1.8	–
Fixing the AI SDK	Oct 6, 2025	15:53	3.9K	×0.2	–
My Current Stack	Oct 4, 2025	22:54	21.9K	×1.0	–
SvelteKit Finally Fixed Data Fetching	Aug 11, 2025	16:05	12.8K	×0.6	–
My Stack Will be so Good Next Year...	Jul 15, 2025	8:18	12.1K	×0.6	–
My Favorite Framework is about to be 100x better	Jun 23, 2025	12:44	19K	×0.9	–
Claude 4 is the first model that can write Svelte code	Jun 1, 2025	9:43	4.7K	×0.2	–
Effect is hard, but you REALLY need to try it	May 10, 2025	14:45	25.3K	×1.2	–
The thing that makes Svelte 5 special	May 2, 2025	10:40	36.6K	×1.7	–