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by apsurd 6mo ago
I really want this to be true. nextjs is a nightmare. I'm eternally disgruntled. nextjs is also powerful due to AI. But the value is a robust interactive front-end, easily iterated, with maybe SSR backing, nothing specific to nextj
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by apsurd 6mo ago
On running an AI a startup in NYC vs SF: > Every single person that I met in SF was dangerously opinionated about AI best practices. It is impossible not to be! When everyone is constantly jumping from idea to idea, trying to stay on top
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by apsurd 6mo ago
I agree that design is about primitives. wireframes and IA should come across clearly at any fidelity. But i don't think that's what tailwind and bootstrap are doing. But people very much use these tools to "solve design&quot
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by apsurd 6mo ago
This is just completely false. But I have a feeling there's no way you're going to change your mind. "make things pretty" would be a graphic designer or artist. Are you saying the entire arm of Product design is a made u
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by apsurd 6mo ago
I find that with the ubiquity of Tailwind, developers treat design as a "solved problem". What's missing is the specific evolution of one's product and the resultant information architecture. The sibling response is my e
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by apsurd 6mo ago
That's a really useful distinction to have explicitly articulated. It's also why plan mode feels like a super power. Research vs Generative AI are different: I'm going to use this.
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by apsurd 6mo ago
your paragraph is parent's point in action. If only all great works could just be an X post!
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by apsurd 6mo ago
> what if you don't give a shit about design and it's a means to an end… the parent's point is that it doesn't work that way. The point is self reinforcing. Design is not a thing. it's the earned scars from the p
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by apsurd 6mo ago
In Cursor I look at the code diff for my own satisfaction and understanding. I've been able to auto-accept all changes pretty reliably all last year. So much so that i've yet to invest in CC. Finally downloaded the desktop app but
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by apsurd 6mo ago
related: Cursor composer line of models is so good relative to cost. "auto" served me just fine until they recommended Composer and I've been continually happy with it. Then Claude Code with Opus dropped and everyone went b
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by apsurd 6mo ago
that's pretty cool!
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by apsurd 6mo ago
you must never have actually done this. it doesn't work the way you think it does. unless it's self contained (like a pp), you can't expect network access to actually deliver when you need it most.
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by apsurd 6mo ago
you could do that for the past 20 years. i've always hated slides as a medium for anything , but i've been proven wrong tine and again that people love their pp.
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by apsurd 6mo ago
fair
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by apsurd 6mo ago
You are saying: by virtue of the value of creation, anything that is created cannot have negative effects.
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by apsurd 6mo ago
I think the talking point is maintaining a well versioned and solid API as product is way harder than shipping a few screens that can change whenever you need them to. (behind those screens being a bunch of duct tape to a clusterF of inte
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by apsurd 6mo ago
Good luck! The premise sticks immediately. If attention-span was shot with social-media, it has no chance in the age of AI. All these deep tech-tools potentially have tons of value, but if it doesn't make sense in 5 seconds, very hard
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by apsurd 6mo ago
Ah, I didn't register the sarcasm. Typical HN, it's probably why you're downvoted. Yes, today's HN session has me nerd-sniped about what the future of product development looks like. I've been thinking how mock-to-
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by apsurd 6mo ago
the url for your company in your profile is misspelled.
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by apsurd 6mo ago
Surprised this is your take coming from a UX designer. You think a straight path for every user to add their feature ideas results in a good UX? edit: reading further into this, the idea is perhaps that users vibe-code their own distinct
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by apsurd 6mo ago
I take your point but then it makes me think is there no more value in diversity? [Philosophy disclaimer] So in a code-base diversity is probably a bad idea, ok that makes sense. But in an agentic world, if everything is run through the Per
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by apsurd 6mo ago
Yeah, the more I debate the AI-lovers the more I can empathize with the possibility it may very well turn out to be everything is an Agent. Encodable. I'm not a doomer either, but I do think this arc is a human arc: there's going
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by apsurd 6mo ago
Let's not debate that it's possible to make very large very safe changes. It is possible that you did that. This is about "slop bias". I'd wager that empowering everyone, especially power-positions to ship 50x mor
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by apsurd 6mo ago
One point: yes, you're speaking from the power position. God-mode over a fleet of minions has always been an engineer's wet-dream. That's not even bad per-say. It's the collateral damage down stream that's at issue.
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by apsurd 6mo ago
i think this is it. you're a bricklayer. No, the bottleneck for erecting buildings is not bricklaying. Without taking all the time to write a dissertation to try to convince you, because why; how about we just start with even zoning
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by apsurd 6mo ago
Even if the entire totem pole of decision makers in a company thinks writing code is the bottleneck doesn't make it true that writing code is the bottleneck. On the extreme end to prove the point, the suits intentionally abstract out r
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by apsurd 6mo ago
I think we're living in times where the one place that this doesn't hold is now somehow all legal: addiction.
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by apsurd 6mo ago
isn't this a problem of being able to see whatever we want in the data? For example maybe more startups than ever are created in part due to access to this info. Volume increase but rate doesn't. Or maybe magnitude of success incr
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by apsurd 6mo ago
Maintenance of mountains more agentic code. The argument is the agents can maintain what the agents build. But someone has to manage the explosion in system complexity. I just quit my job because there was top down explosion of shipping age
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by apsurd 6mo ago
The author uses a lot of words and references to make critical conclusions that they do disclaim aren't expert. Rather than dismissive, I see it as effort intensive. The conclusions can be negative, but they've spawned so much dis

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