Dustin Kirk

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[Dustin Kirk @Dustin_Kirk]

@seraleev Macbook + eternal displays as you can afford them.

[Dustin Kirk @Dustin_Kirk]

Design typically only accounts for the most optimal use case and fails to address individual users. Accessibility is ignored for this reason in most places. Better software driven dynamically by AI is far better than an aesthetically pleasing non-functional design. Function over form is key.

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People think AI is going to replace their exact job and that it is impossible. However AI disrupts industries and processes so much so it is most likely your employer will be replaced.

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Thinking about the possibility that life is simply a boot loader for AI and that the universe is effectively an embryo that grows and embodies AI among a multiverse of emense scale.

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I enjoy the Grok voice mode personality better than chatGPT (though both have a lot of room for improvement). Grok has great access to current event information, but it is wild how far behind it is from GPT 5.5 when asking anything requiring reasoning. I'm getting very impatient for these models and harnesses to converge.

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People need a display, it needs to be fast and readily available to take out and put away, it needs to be sharable with others. The phone is not going away and is the personal computer through and through. Pendants or glasses will never replace a phone for these reasons. At best they are an accessory like AirPods.

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@rileybrown It is more nuanced. Enterprise SaaS will have generative UIs. Personal productivity apps will be generative UI. Shared experiences, boutique apps, and creative art tools will not be generative.

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FYI… Google offers a $20/month family plan so family members can use Gemini on their own accounts. I wish others did this too.

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On @X , whenever I watch a video, most often a clip of an interview at a conference about tech, there is a 100% chance X shows me a movie clip completely unrelated to the thing I wanted to watch, something ch as a clip from a movie. X is really missing the YouTube sense of what to show next.

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@johnennis This feels like a perspective that sees the current state of AI not changing or that AI might be able to feature the qualities of humans more closely or even surpass humanity. It certainly feels good to hope that humans are special. Time will tell.

[Dustin Kirk @Dustin_Kirk]

Thoughts on Opus 4.8 so far after a few days of use. It being end lots of token thinking, testing, and running around simple tasks. Overall I’m not sure when to give it each effort level. It is likely good, but I find it hard to feel good about any choice I make.

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@victor_bigfield Your parents stay healthy by tracking their walk activity, but without taking their mind off of being with you.

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@eliana_jordan Most SaaS applications don’t. If the business is basically a UI on top of a database, skip it.

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If you intend to make money, do the math first. What would a person pay for it, what are the costs to operate, what is the cost to acquire customers, etc. Marketing will eat up far more profits than than people tend to talk about. That 10k mrr business may actually be losing money and not profitable at all.

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The chance you have a profitable app idea is zero. A customer needs to be willing to pay $50/year because user acquisition will cost you $30 in ads, your services probably $20, apple takes a 15% apple cut + developer fee, + government taxes, + tooling… never mind there is no app idea you have that is profitable at the end of the day. If you were hoping to do ASO, it’s broken. If you were hoping for passive income, you will be churning 9 TikToks a day one three devices.

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@JacobCounsell @RoyInProgress One unfortunate fact is that there is an optimal design for customer conversion and landing pages are all optimized for the same metric. They were converging long before AI was involved.

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@BratDotAI $300ish… $200 Claude Code, $20 OpenAI, $20 Gemini, $20 Eleven Labs, $20 Suno, Grok, and then there is the web hosting for projects.

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@martin_casado It is possible to get great AI writing, just not one-shotted. I’ve created one of the most sophisticated writing systems and you would never know it is AI. So yeah, I won’t recommend it for most people, but don’t rule it out. The line getting very blurry very fast.

[Dustin Kirk @Dustin_Kirk]

These days I heavily use Claude code for projects, Grok for general information, GPT-image-2 for images, seed-dance-2.0 for videos, Suno for music, and Notebook LM for distilling research. Not using Gemini much at the moment. MidJourney was cancelled a couple months ago. Eleven Labs was fun to play with, but still a disjointed experience. Photoshop was canceled a while back. I actually only use Figma for removing image backgrounds and vectorizing icons for the most part now.