- Co-host, Nerd Snipe3
Ben Davis is a developer and YouTuber who publishes software development videos on a personal YouTube channel and co-hosts Nerd Snipe, a YouTube show with Theo about developer topics. Ben also writes a Substack whose stated current focus is mostly AI. Ben's website, davis7.sh, publishes a dated "State of AI" page of notes and rankings on the AI models, coding-agent harnesses, and subscriptions Ben uses, along with write-ups of developer setups such as a configuration for a coding agent.12345
At a glance
- Current role
- Co-host
- Company
- Nerd Snipe
- Sector
- Independent
- Work listed
- 3
- Sources cited
- 6
- Profile reviewed
Channel and publications
Ben Davis's personal YouTube channel, which joined YouTube in September 2022, describes its subject as development work and whatever topic Ben is currently exploring. Ben also co-hosts Nerd Snipe, a YouTube show, created in April 2026, in which Theo and Ben talk about developer topics.23
Ben's Substack carries longer written notes on AI and technology. The davis7.sh site gathers dated "State of AI" editions, with notes on the models, coding-agent harnesses and subscriptions Ben uses, and write-ups of a macOS setup, a home server, a Karabiner keyboard configuration and the font Ben uses in an editor and terminal.415
Open-source work
Ben publishes an MIT-licensed configuration for the Pi coding agent on GitHub. Its README says it adds a theme, web search and scraping tools, background terminals, subagents, workflows, a tool that lets the model ask multiple-choice questions, and file-discovery and content-search tools.61
Work and contributions
Ben Davis (YouTube channel) Show, channel or publication
Videos about software development and the technology topics Ben is currently exploring.21
Nerd Snipe Show, channel or publication
Co-hosts the show with Theo; the channel describes it as the two of them talking about dev stuff.31
Ben Davis (Substack) Show, channel or publication
Written notes on AI and tech; the publication's about page says its current focus is mostly AI.41
Timeline
Where they work
- Nerd Snipe 1 person in the wiki
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6 sources · profile reviewed Oct 21, 2026 · data updated Oct 21, 2026