George Kedenburg III

ai software design @humane

[George Kedenburg III @GK3]

had a very nice time chatting with @ridd_design about building with AI, hope you like the episode!

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[Ridd 🤿 @ridd_design]

Designing with AI is like working with a new "alien space metal" 👽

And we get to learn all about it in this week's episode with @GK3 ...

Some of my favorite takeaways 👇

1️⃣ When you’re prototyping AI products, your prototypes don’t “break” or “fall over” like they do in Figma.

That’s because the boundaries of what exists in the prototype become much blurrier. Edge cases disappear altogether.

2️⃣ If the AI model is a chef, then you’re responsible for designing the kitchen.

You don’t know what the user will order, so it’s a lot of trial and error to ensure you have the right data on hand at the right moments.

3️⃣ He used AI to learn Python as a way to experiment with the model and prototype his ideas. One tactic he used was asking AI to add comments explaining what each line was doing.
George says these prototypes are way cooler than anything he's ever made in Origami 👀

4️⃣ The real value of design is being able to look at an ambiguous situation and understand what you should explore.

Rectangles so happen to be the most common way to express that value but the REAL skill is creative problem solving.

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We go waaayyy deeper in the full episode...

If you're curious about designing AI-native products or how to thrive in ambiguity then you're going to love this one 👇

https://t.co/rXvbNClj5a

[George Kedenburg III @GK3]

@OpenAI wow AGI confirmed

[George Kedenburg III @GK3]

i know there’s no AGI at @OpenAI because you still can’t change your account email address

[George Kedenburg III @GK3]

@devinjacoviello wow

[Andy Allen @asallen]

Software Design is weird. It is undoubtedly the most impactful medium shaping the world today, yet even those of us working in it know very little of its history. We have no broadly-read books, no docu-series, no video essays. Most see the works of the past as obsolete rather than the rich heritage that has led us here. Every year, seminal works are lost to time accessible only in the memories of those who lived it.

We're (re)building Software Design's most seminal moments one pixel at a time and sharing the stories behind the work straight from the designers themselves. Take a peek and sign up to follow along…
https://t.co/1dCSU0me7q

[George Kedenburg III @GK3]

@andy_matuschak always good to have more tools in your tool belt imo

[George Kedenburg III @GK3]

@Flomerboy congrats!! excited for this 🍿

[George Kedenburg III @GK3]

@jmtrivedi wavy

[George Kedenburg III @GK3]

@soleio somehow i survived!

[George Kedenburg III @GK3]

@soleio still hoping one day we could have both

https://t.co/tJGUFZSzLV

[George Kedenburg III @GK3]

sometimes i wish designers could have tags like music producers

like imagine

* you tap on something in IG *

🗣 “AYOOO GK MADE THIS SCREEN SLAP 💥📢”

[George Kedenburg III @GK3]

we’ve got one spot open for a product design intern next summer!

looking for someone who is excited about software + hardware + AI and loves to make things, not just push rectangles around all day.

https://t.co/UYy5TRZKMu

[George Kedenburg III @GK3]

@geoffreylitt @inkandswitch 🫡

[George Kedenburg III @GK3]

@LinusEkenstam not an entirely new invention 🙃

https://t.co/a6cRPnhVsD

[George Kedenburg III @GK3]

@jasonyuan 💞

[FA @freddyanzures]

Jobs at HP https://t.co/L5mgHm7tJM

[George Kedenburg III @GK3]

@kristinatastic same reason some people like comic books over word books i think

[George Kedenburg III @GK3]

looking for an eng who would rather sit on the design team and spend time prototyping wild ideas instead of sitting in meetings about metrics. one who finds joy in pushing craft forward, caring about little details, and inventing new ways of doing things
https://t.co/jEoS1ihG4A

[George Kedenburg III @GK3]

@ridd_design 👋
https://t.co/Tf6YF2DZoj
and also
https://t.co/e5MhYsXQle

[George Kedenburg III @GK3]

@Flomerboy @kelin_online 🥹

[George Kedenburg III @GK3]

@rogie @figma this is awesome, congrats!