The reason why my personal site has just one font size, monchrome colors, and looks “boring” is simply because I don’t consider myself a great designer.
By using as little variation as possible, I limit the amount of design mistakes I can make, and instead, I try to make the content itself (hopefully) interesting.
I know a few tricks to not make my work look like shit, but it’s far from the skills of a designer working at Linear for example.
To expand on that, from what I’ve seen, most “design engineers” excel at either design or code, not both. I never believed I can be exceptional at both, and I haven’t seen many people that are really, really great at both.
To me, trying to be great at both is like 2-in-1 shampoo conditioner, it never really works as well as two separate products designed specifically to do one thing well.
That’s why I made open source projects like Sonner and Vaul, that require some design sense, but these are far from sharing design kits for example.
And again, there are exceptions, but you shouldn’t expect all design engineers to design and build absolutely amazing things on their own.
I think most design engineers (including me) are just engineers that care about design, but that doesn’t necessarily mean they are good at designing (and vice versa).
To me, the title design engineer is misleading in that it’s more of a description of where one’s interests overlap instead of actually indicating high skill in both disciplines.
the new startup org chart
ceo -> you
cmo -> okara
cto -> claude
head of ops -> zapier
head of infra -> vercel
head of design -> figma
head of finance -> ramp
analytics lead -> posthog
backend guy -> supabase
head of payments -> stripe
@amazon's luna password recovery service is a showcase of a incorrect engineering leverage using LLMs. Nonetheless, we need to continue improving products for the benefit of people using them. That's why you need to contract with https://t.co/1IxuvPxO6b bc our passion is help ppl
Amongst my friends, Spotify is the lowest quality consumer app we still pay for. It certainly hasnt gotten noticeably better in the last couple years (arguably worse). So, this is not the positive look Ant and Spotify are spinning here.
Bigger picture, this is the problem with a lot of AI reporting. It reports completely meaningless metrics like deploys per day or LoC. Why don’t we start reporting consumer satisfaction reports? Actually end state research results.
All the no nuance AI people always come out and think that this is anti AI. Again, I think AI is great and Claude is great. But this is bad marketing and makes both look like clowns.
@NickADobos I don't know if castles grow on their own but maybe architects can leverage better their current skills. Nonetheless I have to admit LLMs are amazing tools to work on legacy codebases.
With all due respect, I think the analogy is wrong because long term maintainability is a principle of engineering. Thus, "taking care of an evolving garden" has always been a way to maintain projects, before and after AI.
Coding before Ai was like building a Lego set. You start by gathering the pieces. Put together brick by brick. Plan build connect assemble.
Coding after Ai is more like growing a garden. You start with a seed of an idea. Fertilize with compute. Tend prune cultivate evolve.
Dude, so much people suffering for lack of money is so sad at Colombia. That's why I want to be rich, to give away the most for the vulnerable communities at my country.
I finally got the T3 Code mobile app and T3 Connect set up.
Working on multiple projects across 4 different computers with a single app. This feels like magic.
Can’t wait to ship this
Con todo respeto, "desobediencia civil pacífica" me parece una redundancia gramatical. ¿Acaso a lo civilzado no le es inherente actuar de manera pacífica?
#EnDesarrollo El senador electo y excandidato presidencial Iván Cepeda anunció que no reconocerá el gobierno de Abelardo De La Espriella si no se cumplen una serie de condiciones.
Entre ellas, que el mandatario renuncie a la nacionalidad estadounidense, aclare posibles vínculos con agencias de seguridad de EE. UU., respete y se someta a la soberanía colombiana, cese la persecución política y judicial, y se comprometa a no extraditar al saliente presidente Gustavo Petro.
Cepeda aseguró que, de no cumplirse estas condiciones, llamará a la desobediencia civil pacífica junto con sus electores. #VocesySonidos