Neil McArdle

Senior Digital Product Designer @Avis

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Thanks for sharing @ridd_design

Great to see/listen to another Christian in tech...
https://t.co/wcI5b9LTBH

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This is more about making an agent’s reasoning checkable, before fixes hit production, than promising results.

You can see why it thinks what it thinks.

Analytics tools show you where people get stuck, then leave diagnosis and fix to a team.

This would name the cause, give a predictive fix on a real device, and ship only when a person accepts the risk.

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Self-healing UI. Is it possible?

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a concept
https://t.co/8vJ4a9iVv2

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@designertom @gt Thanks man

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@Aprilzz423 @claudeai You can just listen to the rain fall. Enjoy.

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What shall I listen to...

An audio book perhaps? Nah.

A game soundtrack? Nah.

Ah yes. The sound of rain.

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All tracks findable on https://t.co/qFdFvBMT5U

Made with Colorfigures by @Aprilzz423

Video recorded with Claude Code @claudeai

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@rauchg Great for stakeholder demos

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Watching tonight 🍿

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First of Kind: The @rauchg interview

Season 3 starts now. I sat down with Guillermo in San Francisco to talk about layout shift, random acts of AI, and a dragon painted in a single stroke.

00:00 Human Effort Is Still Underrated
00:44 Chief Executive, Chief Designer
02:33 Two Bets: Software and English
05:15 Gmail Was My Siren Call
11:06 Exposure Hours
14:49 Layout Shift / One Stroke Dragon
17:10 No Random Acts of AI
25:17 Can Agents Have Taste?
30:15 Software Factories and Manufacturing Agent Customers
34:59 Everything Is Communication
38:04 A New American Story
41:52 Lifemaxxing

Guillermo Rauch is the founder and CEO of @vercel. Growing up in Argentina, he taught himself English in order to teach himself programming, then went on to create @nextjs and other foundational technology for the real-time web.

In our conversation, Guillermo explains why he designed Vercel’s first command line before writing any code, why layout shift erodes trust, and why his company won’t commit any “random acts of AI.”

G is not just a chief executive. He’s a chief designer.

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Guillermo Rauch: One Stroke Dragon
First of Kind, S3:E01 @firstofkind

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It's kinda goes like...

Designer has idea > prompts Claude > Claude populates ideas into Figma via MCP > Designer explores Claude's explorations by hand in Figma > Designer polishes Claude's Figma explorations by hand in Figma > Designer prompts Claude to use their polished Figma designs to code up the app.

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@steveruizok Don't look at Neil's until his session limit resets. Thanks, Neil's agent.

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@steveruizok

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@emilkowalski Just used these on my site:

scale(0.97) on press
Enter from 0.96, never 0
Exit faster than enter
No motion on keyboard actions
Hover only on fine pointers
Under 300ms, custom ease-out
Transform and opacity only
Gentler reduced motion

Thanks!

https://t.co/qFdFvBMT5U

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Remixed @numaausaumon Gameboy Jig to explore using it as the nav for my portfolio...

https://t.co/RUTU9RhAFG

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Claude CoLab

You bring your agents.

I’ll bring mine.

Let’s build together.

Just a thought.

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@steveruizok When Anthropic gave out credit when it launched a new model guess what I used it for.

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@steveruizok Slopped a whole book!

https://t.co/aLof5tdm3i