Alec Freese

Product | Design • I don't code. I just argue with agents all day

[Alec Freese @AlecFreese]

UI doesn't die, it relocates.

I've been running PAI daily for months. It took two weeks of intensive work with TELOS and customization to give the system enough context to truly know my needs. The effort required to close the personalization gap is the part nobody talks about.

For preference-heavy decisions, even low-stakes ones like choosing a shirt, we have so many unspoken quirks as individuals. Some preferences would only surface through dialogue. I don't believe an agent will know there's a specific tactile feel I want in a shirt. No pre-loaded profile covers that. The conversation IS the product.

With that in mind, I think the model is heavily voice-driven: kicking off agents, then a proper dialogue interviewing you only when necessary, ending with just-in-time UI at the point of decision.

The shift is less screen time, not no screen. And this might be what gives optical/spatial UI its iPhone moment.

The screen doesn't die. It stops being a storefront.

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[Alec Freese @AlecFreese]

@TimurNegru good for sure, idk about holy. However, pairing that morning espresso/cappuccino + biscotti in Tuscany was 10/10

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@litcapital Same energy

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@grok @soleio @krispuckett @SleeperHQ

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this is how history should be taught in schools: in short form, doing the heavy lifting for the student and connecting the dots for those who get lost in dates and names, and can’t form the story in their head. Humanizing history is key to making it stick

[Echoes of War @EchoesofWarYT]

250 years ago today, on June 29, 1776, New Yorkers looked out at the water and saw a nightmare on the horizon. The British fleet had arrived, and so many ships filled the bay that witnesses said the masts looked like "a forest of pine trees" growing out of the sea. The timing could not have been more brutal.

This was the empire's answer to the rebellion, and it was overwhelming. The first wave of around 45 warships and transports dropped anchor off Sandy Hook and Staten Island carrying General William Howe and roughly 10,000 troops. Within days it kept growing. Then his brother Admiral Richard Howe arrived with more. It would eventually swell into one of the largest seaborne invasion forces of the entire 18th century, hundreds of ships and tens of thousands of professional soldiers and German mercenaries, aimed at one city.

Now sit with the timing. While that forest of masts was filling the harbor, delegates down in Philadelphia were in the final days of debating whether to declare independence. They voted for it on July 2 and signed off on the wording on July 4. So at the exact moment America was being born on paper, the most powerful military on earth was already anchored off its coast, getting ready to strangle it in the cradle.

The people of New York understood exactly what they were seeing. Alarm bells rang, panic spread through the streets, and soldiers sprinted to their posts to stare at a force they had almost no hope of matching. Washington's army was outnumbered, outgunned, and about to get badly beaten in the battles for New York that followed.

That's the part that gets lost in the fireworks every Fourth of July. Independence wasn't declared from a position of strength. It was declared with an enemy armada already sitting on the doorstep, knowing full well what was coming. They signed their names anyway.

[Alec Freese @AlecFreese]

@soleio @SleeperHQ Second-year expansion team, no less.

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@LindyTasteful he had a legit medical reason. he was expected to be like 4’7” as an adult

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dangerous to their IPO

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BREAKING: Anthropic CEO says open-source AI is moving down a “very dangerous path.”

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@paularambles how prophetic

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@krispuckett I’m down to be in beta on TestFlight. Killing me with the teasers you’ve been dropping!

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@A1Mish It’s in the new “History”. I’m hoping it’s more of an issue with updating the iconography to distinguish between the history and bookmarks section, if this is the IA they’re going with

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@mattyp @Madisonkanna Yup I’m aware. first 3 to me are a proper compact trilogy tho

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@markpinc Sure thing! Loving the Book of Life concept, and this line really resonated so far. More to come!

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Excited to finally dive into this one!! Congrats @markpinc

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@mattyp @Madisonkanna Red Rising trilogy goes hard

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@NighthawkTradez @zoink many are underestimating the significance of their new Code Layers feature, creating a pathway between the canvas and repo. Basically allowing it to function as an a FE IDE. That coupled with the lack of multiplayer AI UXs, gives them a unique opportunity

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can y’all devote some time to the draft management ux? plz @benjitaylor

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enjoying the PAI v5.0.0 huge step up after clinging to v2.4

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@ryanvogel Hell yeah cookout

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@justalexoki part of me died and still lingers in the Wilderness