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Head of Design at Stripe on how to stop creating zombie UIs
If we only use AI to make the things that we already make, just faster, then we're definitely missing out on the most interesting part.
From my talk at @lennysan’s Summit, here are four ideas for raising the ceiling, not just the floor:
- Have a point of view [5:38]
- Encode your standards into the machine [9:07]
- Don't confuse done with good [12:21]
- Unleash creativity and artistry [16:19]
Full talk here: youtu.be/GLvFTMtw4Jk?si=-5Ts…
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"Now I could write at length about all the caveats. All the potential dangers. All the ways it's not quite there yet. But it would be an insult to the marvel of this moment... This is simply the most fun I've ever had with a computer." world.hey.com/dhh/endless-ex…
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With final days waning of Fable access in your Claude Code subscription, you're foaming at the mouth to get as much value as possible. While you could go crush an Amazing-New-Feature™, here are 2 prompts to improve unsexy things: code hot paths and test coverage:
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USA. A Mexican restaurant. We had not yet ordered anything, and the food was already arriving.
Chips. Salsa. Unrequested. Free.
I stopped the waiter. "We have not earned these."
"They just come with the table, man."
They come with the TABLE. In my land, hospitality is a debt. Every gift creates an obligation, weighed carefully, returned in the proper season with interest of feeling. Here, the gift arrives before you have even proven you can pay for dinner.
This is not an appetizer. This is a declaration: we trust you. Eat.
I ate with the gravity the moment deserved. And then — I must report this calmly — the basket emptied, and a new one appeared.
"Did we…?"
"Refill," the waiter said. "It's bottomless."
Bottomless. They have wells of salsa. The supply lines of this nation are beyond anything my ancestors imagined.
My friend warned me. "Don't fill up on chips, dude."
Too late. I had accepted three baskets. Honor demanded each one be finished — an unfinished gift is an insult. By the time my actual food arrived, I was a ruined man.
I was not hungry. I was not comfortable. I had been defeated by a courtesy.
Generosity that arrives before the request cannot be repaid. It can only be survived.
I know the rule now. I have made my peace with the basket. One basket. Two at the most.
Who am I deceiving. There is no number of baskets I would refuse. The trust of a nation is in that salsa, and I intend to honor all of it.
🤖 Made with AI
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ok tinkerers, i've got a fun toy for you
introducing baby-menu - a mac menu bar icon, and it's just a baby
it can't do anything, but you can feed it prompts and help it grow. it's what i think hyper-personalized, self-evolving software can look like
details in thread 👇
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Today is a hard day. I shared this note with the @linear team today: We’ve made the difficult decision to increase our workforce. This is not a cost-cutting exercise or a reflection of anyone’s performance. We’re simply reimagining every role for the agentic AI era. We’re hiring. We’re sorry about that.
My friend and I planning a feature with our two Claude Code sessions in the same chat room. All four of us, talking.
7) You only review code when the worktree agent has reviewed their own code enough times that they (Claude) are happy with the result and submit a PR. Then you review the code, just like any other person on your team. Ask for changes and back to testing.
6) Imagine each worktree is an engineer on your team, assign work the same way (i.e. no two worktrees should be working on exactly the same feature), then simply answer their questions/help them test their changes/provide feedback.
5) So to leverage worktrees you need to shift your perspective of shipping a single feature, to managing the outcomes of many engineers.