Jack Cheng

Children’s author, pattern linguist, slow technologist, senior editor @every. And newish dad. Building lively worlds, real and imagined.

[Jack Cheng @jackcheng]

So so excited about this one, a new interactive piece for @every by @lauraentis w/ exclusive reporting on the what the infrastructure team at OpenAI has been facing with almost 100% of the company using Codex. I edited, designed, and produced with @DABrundage and @darustudio

[Lee Knowlton @leeknowlton]

in-between jigs and prompts, there's probably "commands" where you can perform bounded semantic jumps like generating variants, summarizing, or doing spellcheck

[joshpuckett @joshpuckett]

Was fun to chat with Jack from @every this week about jigs! Indispensable for heirloom furniture and novel interface design, both near and dear to my heart.

Here's one of my favorite jigs recently, made to dial in and debug animations in Pica's font style organizer:

[Jack Cheng @jackcheng]

My new one for @every going into the weekend, about two favorite topics: woodworking and UI design (feat. @joshpuckett and @Wattenberger) https://t.co/UruRn3l9Wk

[Jack Cheng @jackcheng]

aka the Dark Sonnet Theory of Recent Anthropic Models

[Jack Cheng @jackcheng]

@allanyu_ Post-training was just Dario alone in a windowless room, giving thumbs up and thumbs down

[Jack Cheng @jackcheng]

@allanyu_ Post-training was just Dario alone in a windowless room, giving thumbs up and thumbs down

[Jack Cheng @jackcheng]

@jinayoon_ Here’s my piece from earlier this year trying to answer this exact question over on @every. For further reading I recommend @wdavidmarx’s Status and Culture https://t.co/rE2B4nMxPG

[Jack Cheng @jackcheng]

@Mappletons @juristr @genmon and @inanimate_tech are doing some neat stuff in this realm https://t.co/vGFEV1RRxB

[Jack Cheng @jackcheng]

@joshpuckett here’s the interactive piece I mentioned, in case you were curious!

[Jack Cheng @jackcheng]

So so excited about this one, a new interactive piece for @every by @lauraentis w/ exclusive reporting on the what the infrastructure team at OpenAI has been facing with almost 100% of the company using Codex. I edited, designed, and produced with @DABrundage and @darustudio

[Jack Cheng @jackcheng]

@every @lauraentis @DABrundage @darustudio @Wattenberger I came across your “Code is a Medium for Thought” piece via @Mappletons while I was working on this and it gave me much to think about! Thought you might appreciate the elaborate jig I had to make to tune the explainer steps

[Jack Cheng @jackcheng]

@joshpuckett Hi Josh! I’m writing a piece for @every about the use of UI “jigs” and this post was the first time I came across the word in this context. Do you have time for a quick chat/Meet this week about the idea? lmk

[Jack Cheng @jackcheng]

@joshpuckett @irondavy Gah I love this analogy! Here’s one I spun up a couple months back to test different icon sets for my iOS app side by side

[Jack Cheng @jackcheng]

Is there a name for the sensation of a perfectly purring engine?

https://t.co/1VKjbGdSGR

[Jack Cheng @jackcheng]

@devin_sami and applesauce pouches and halves of bananas and ice cream and peas and carrots and corn and broccoli and turkey meatballs and uncrustables and etc etc

[Jack Cheng @jackcheng]

My current diet:
1/3 bagels
1/3 burritos
1/3 whatever the two-year-old doesn’t finish

[Jack Cheng @jackcheng]

Read it here: https://t.co/XUBISoS2Jy

[Jack Cheng @jackcheng]

@danshipper It also makes app icons that look like this

[Drewphilp @drewphilp]

The @metrotimes fiction issue is back again! This year we're featuring Metro Detroit youth. All of these pieces are exceptional, but my favorite might be this 14 year-old's poem about how much he loves his dog:

[hilary gridley @yourgirlhils]

there is such a thing as TOO MANY PROTOTYPES !

For @every, I wrote about how to control the chaos when everyone at your company can spin up a prototype in seconds

[Jack Cheng @jackcheng]

Here’s a new @every essay by @yourgirlhils on what you have to unlearn/relearn when AI tools cause a prototype frenzy. Was excited to edit this one! https://t.co/BKoMNEDzBI

[Jack Cheng @jackcheng]

Video too! https://t.co/oDUWsoAkZP

[Jack Cheng @jackcheng]

Here’s a gift link to my new piece on Every about ... adding gift links https://t.co/ARDGZzfzwP