Marc Dennert

Remote designer at Square, former Adobe, lover of technology, and a proud father and geek.

[Marc Dennert @MarcDennert]

@thsottiaux Plans should be docs that you can directly edit, highlight areas to direct the ai to change, etc instead of being a chat reply.

[Marc Dennert @MarcDennert]

@adele_bloch 20 years in. Enter marriage with the mindset that this is permanent. We tell each other all the time “you’re stuck with me”. It means we have to work things out.

It’s also not 50/50, it’s 100/100. Both sides must find joy in serving the other. Their happiness is top priority.

[Kris Puckett @krispuckett]

I spent too much time on this:

CLARK: My contention is that with Claude’s new design tool, Figma has essentially been rendered obsolete, the canvas-based paradigm is most aptly characterized as a legacy artifact from the era before models could generate production-ready interfaces from inten—
WILL: [interrupting] Of course that’s your contention. You’ve never shipped anything and just watched the launch video twice. You just got finished reading some hot take, probably a Twitter thread or whoever’s got a Substack this week, and you’re gonna be convinced Figma’s dead until next month when you actually try to iterate on a flow and realize “regenerate” isn’t the same as “nudge this four pixels.” Then you’re gonna pivot to talking about how the canvas was always just a lossy interface for intent. That’s gonna last until next year when you’re in here regurgitating some take about how design tools are collapsing into a single agentic surface, you know, the post-craft utopia and the disintermediation of taste by foundation models.

CLARK: [taken aback] Well as a matter of fact I won’t, because generative design drastically reduces the need for a manual canvas in the first pla—

WILL: “Generative design drastically reduces the need for a manual canvas, especially as models get better at reasoning about layout and hierarchy…” You got that from that Figma-is-dead thread, right? The one that went viral last week. Yeah, I read it too. You gonna plagiarize the whole thing for us, or you have any thoughts — of your own — on this? Or is that your thing, you come into a bar, you skim some trending tweets over lunch and you pawn it off as your own idea to impress some founders, embarrass my friend?

[Clark is stunned]
WILL: See, the sad thing about a guy like you is in about fifty product cycles you’re gonna start doing some thinking on your own and you’re gonna come up with the fact that there are two certainties in building things. One: don’t pick a side in a tool war you’re not actually building in. And two: the people shipping right now are using Claude and Figma and Claude Code before you’ve finished writing your LinkedIn post about which one won.

CLARK: Yeah, well I’ll have Claude build my whole product stack, and you’ll still be pushing rectangles around in Figma.

WILL: [smiles] Yeah, maybe. But at least I’ll still know how to think when the model’s wrong.

[Marc Dennert @MarcDennert]

@flyosity I’m so sorry to hear that Mike. It’s devastating.

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@flyosity @jack Oh come on, Moltbot should be running Treeo by now anyways.

[Marc Dennert @MarcDennert]

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[Marc Dennert @MarcDennert]

@flyosity @treeo Posting thirst traps now to promote Treeo?

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@MarvelStuff98 There are so many cool X-men they could have included, but given all the other original X-men are there, not having Angel or Beast feel like the right next ones.

[Marc Dennert @MarcDennert]

@kevinyien 🧐🤔😏

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@flyosity @treeo (stiffness / mass)
You're branching into some new content I see!

[Marc Dennert @MarcDennert]

@flyosity I’m concerned you snapped this while driving.

[Marc Dennert @MarcDennert]

@kevinyien Ooh, interested to hear more about their internal tooling strategy. Really become a passion of mine.

[Marc Dennert @MarcDennert]

@flyosity @treeo As a lefty, I can't get onboard with spiral bound, but totally agree with the dot grid.

[Marc Dennert @MarcDennert]

@flyosity Isn’t that ironically a truer ai? It’s artificially pretending to be intelligent software.

[Marc Dennert @MarcDennert]

@flyosity @treeo Can’t wait!

[Marc Dennert @MarcDennert]

@flyosity Is that Bryce? It blew my mind when I got to play with it in high school art class.

[Denver Nuggets @nuggets]

JAMAL MURRAY. GAME WINNER.