New essay! In which I try to define the toolmarks that AI leaves behind in the process of turning your prompt into a generated output.
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The weirdest flex right now is “I one-shotted this with AI.”
Cool. So can a stranger who types a similar sentence.
One-shotting means the output required zero judgment. Zero editing. Zero taste. You skipped the entire part that makes it yours. The work is everything that happens after the first result.
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Eugene
added this button interaction to my portfolio
(Stole or got the inspiration somewhere)
These are the kind of things I love in personal websites 👏
Looks amazing!
Generative UI is getting hyped as the future of software and it’s starting to feel like “voice will kill screens” all over again.
If every user sees a different interface:
- How does support work?
- How do you write help docs?
People actually like standards. You learn one app and carry that muscle memory to the next. That’s not a limitation, that’s how humans work.
There’s also an assumption that users know exactly what they need and can articulate it clearly. We know that’s not true.
The sweet spot is probably 80% well-designed UI for everyday tasks, 20% AI for the long tail.
But that’s not the future of software.
That’s a good feature.
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Sebastian De Deyne
Using Codex 80% of the time but for some reason Claude has *way* better taste making UI decisions
In my experience, gemini has better UI instincts. That’s when I switch to cursor to make gemini do a UI pass for quick things. Instead of keep correcting Claude for UI changes.
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Orman Clark
things designers never want to hear:
i think
quick call?
interesting
make it pop
nice direction
i did it in word
it's getting there
needs more zing
is this the wireframe?
it's lacking something
make the logo bigger
i'll know it when I see it
my nephew has photoshop
what else?
I just asked Claude to add some “design”
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Fabrizio Rinaldi
I built my dream Markdown editor for Mac.
→ Introducing Cogito (pronounced koh-gee-toh).
It started out of frustration: Obsidian is powerful but overwhelming. iA Writer is beautiful but feels built for a different era.
Nothing felt right for how I actually write and work now: plain files, lots of folders, agents and scripts editing alongside me.
I wanted both: native and beautiful, powerful and calm.
So I finally built it.
It's fast, keyboard-first, polished, truly native. A Mac app built with power users and developers in mind.
This is my love letter to writing and Mac apps.
I use it for all my writing now.
Free while in beta ✌️
Love people building their own version of heavy used apps. This one looks very similar to @BearNotesApp wondering if you try it or what differences it has.
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Frank Stallone 🧘🏻♂️
The world is changing fast. What are you doing to keep up?
What has worked for me my entire life is being adaptable.
Being adaptable means being able to shift with the inevitability of change.
💯, I always consider myself very flexible and adaptable. What I’m doing right now is keeping myself up to date (twitter/mailbrew), playing and experimenting with all these new AI tools integrating them in my ever changing workflow.
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Louis Pereira
https://t.co/QuqaWCGtEE just crossed 3000 registered users!
Conversion to paid has dropped dramatically (as expected) after the switch away from the introductory pricing.
Let's see what impact the product hunt launch has this week. https://t.co/9X3q7jMahL
Happy to have used the introductory pricing. It was an amazing deal for such a great tool.
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