alec

product designer since 2009. mostly startups.

[0xDesigner @0xDesigner]

ok so let me get this straight…

fable can plan kidnappings, drain bank accounts, and one shot full app clones. to the point where the government got involved.

but it still can’t hit the lowest of bars for design without 30 directed iterations?

they said ai was going to take my job so why am i working even harder now?

[alec @_not_alex]

Ain’t no way every single LLM Chat team isn’t trying to figure out reply threads and branching conversations.

Not a single good solution to this has emerged.

[alec @_not_alex]

@PathOfMen_ 1. Being “cool” is a state of mind.
2. Being funny > being fit or attractive.
3. Being a “good hang” will increase your network faster and for longer than most accolades.

[alec @_not_alex]

@dlevine815 The “Which response do you prefer” UX is poorly thought out. Not a chance you’re getting useful data from it. I’m certainly not reading both, it’s not quickly evident what the difference is, and it pisses me off.

Could use a summary up top as to what’s different between them.

[alec @_not_alex]

@NotoriousUSB fr the good old days. when being a promising candidate got you flown out and put up in a nice hotel. can’t even imagine that now.

[alec @_not_alex]

I’m building an app over the holiday break in an effort to:

- Get my hands dirty with agentic coding
- Sharpen my figma-to-code process
- Better learn how to design products that use LLMs under the hood.

No hype. Just practical use.

[alec @_not_alex]

@mkliku Been asked to watch this hundreds of times but can’t bring myself to do it because I fear it may be too relatable.

[alec @_not_alex]

@0xDesigner I have the thing where cilantro tastes like soap.

[alec @_not_alex]

@ASFleischman Los Alamos Labs

[alec @_not_alex]

@karthikponna19 interview

[Min Choi @minchoi]

We are cooked

Nano Banana Pro

[alec @_not_alex]

@minchoi I am the grand prize winner of Nickelodeon’s 1994 Stocking Stuffer Giveaway.

[alec @_not_alex]

@TosinOlugbenga 4th grade, Colorado, my best friends older brother was a hobbyist programmer, would show us cool stuff.

20 years later I was a senior product designer working in SF.

On a trip to Washington I met with him at the Microsoft campus (where he worked) to tell him thanks.

[alec @_not_alex]

@CreeCoder 2009 is the only one with wings AND eyes so it would win in a fight against the others.

[alec @_not_alex]

@NefflynBe Fiction

[alec @_not_alex]

@kaif9998 If you have ADHD or accountability issues yes.

[Wes Bos @wesbos]

I challenged my two friends to order a pizza with code.

CJ reverse engineered the GraphQL API

Scott built a Pizza MCP

and I built a voice agent that can make calls

https://t.co/RXWuSjuVnd

[alec @_not_alex]

@anothercohen Surprising to hear this about Notion but curious why.

[alec @_not_alex]

@lychkel Literally finished off a long-procrastinated portfolio update today! Mostly product ☺️

https://t.co/X0z7fKcW4Q

[alec @_not_alex]

@Noahhcalls name is alec. with a “c”.