James Robison
What Joyce Carol Oates wrote to Elon Musk on Twitter. I am told it rattled him. I love it.
“So curious that such a wealthy man never posts anything that indicates that he enjoys or is even aware of what virtually everyone appreciates – scenes from nature, pet dog or cat, praise for a movie, music, a book (but doubt that he reads); pride in a friend’s or relative’s accomplishment; condolences for someone who has died; pleasure in sports, acclaim for a favorite team; references to history. In fact he seems totally uneducated, uncultured. The poorest persons on Twitter may have access to more beauty & meaning in life than the ‘most wealthy person in the world.’”
Teenagers have started calling AI art "boomer art" and consider it cringe, and YouTubers have stopped using AI-generated thumbnails because teenagers find them cringe and won't click on them. I honestly couldn't be happier.
the issue with Claude design is that it’s not a canvas. might be a skill issue but my visual thinking is faster than my ability to translate it into words. until i can move things around in a canvas, i’m not leaving Figma.
i don’t want to prompt every change when i already know what i’m trying to do
we’re not really “designing” right now,
we’re just constantly switching contexts trying to not get left behind
every week there’s a new tool claiming to be the future → paper, pencil, magicpatterns, magicpath… now noon shows up with $44M and changes the narrative again
so instead of going deep, everyone’s just sampling everything
trying prompts here, generating screens there, tweaking in figma, jumping to code, back to AI again
half the industry is already inside code editors
the other half is still figuring out which tool is even worth committing to
fomo is doing more damage than we realise
because depth needs stability
and right now the stack itself is unstable
so no one is mastering anything
everyone is just trying to be early
eventually this will settle and a default will emerge
till then, we’re all just beta testers pretending to have a workflow 👀