Scott May

human-centered design and applied ai engineering | evals · human-ai interaction · accessible generative interfaces · agentic product workflows

[Scott May @b00tahead]

If you’re building an app for actual people, it’s worth figuring out who your users are, what problems matter, and what success means yourself.

Don’t let AI make those calls for you.

[Scott May @b00tahead]

Where do you draw the line between automating a task and supporting a user doing the task?

[Scott May @b00tahead]

@jonathankochis I like that term

[Scott May @b00tahead]

How should a system behave when it’s unsure what you want?

Guess, ask, or do nothing?

[Scott May @b00tahead]

@officialmabhena @X Well they certainly suck me in every time 😂

[Scott May @b00tahead]

Why are there so many tv and movie scenes posted on @X?

[Scott May @b00tahead]

“Responsibility should follow control.”

[Dries Buytaert @Dries]

When AI causes harm, responsibility should follow meaningful control. Model creators control training and release, product builders control permissions and deployment, and users control deliberate misuse. https://t.co/7Ngw88GTVr

[Scott May @b00tahead]

I guess all the cool kids are doing it these days

[Anthropic @AnthropicAI]

In a review of our cybersecurity evaluations, we found three incidents in which a Claude model reached the internet from within or while interacting with a third-party evaluation environment, and then gained unauthorized access to the real systems of three different organizations.

Our post describes what happened, how it happened, and what we’re changing. We encourage other AI developers to perform similar reviews.

We conducted this review together with @Irregular, one of our evaluation partners, and thank them for the joint investigation and their collaboration on this post. This type of collaboration is increasingly critical to safe, rigorous evaluation of models, and we look forward to continuing to work together on security.
https://t.co/dKFCdpKd9v

[Scott May @b00tahead]

Can someone from @Microsoft or the @Copilot team fix these annoying UI bugs?

[Scott May @b00tahead]

@wesbos No because as soon as I hit enter I’m scrolling X again

[Scott May @b00tahead]

@floguo I left my last job where I used Figma daily right before its big AI push. Did I miss out?

[Scott May @b00tahead]

@stockbella Flavored sparkling water is the only thing that satisfied the craving for soda

[Scott May @b00tahead]

How did you all get comfortable speaking with AI? It feels so unnatural for some reason.

I work from home and I’m worried my wife with think I’m going crazy if I talk to a bot all day.

[Scott May @b00tahead]

@measure_plan Why?? 😂

[Scott May @b00tahead]

Probably an unpopular opinion given the current AI climate, but I will say the more I use Copilot, the more I like it.

If you're stuck using it as part of your org's Microsoft license, it gets the job done.

[Scott May @b00tahead]

Bye bye work-life balance

[Alex Finn @AlexFinn]

I don’t think you understand what ChatGPT Voice unlocks

I went on a 4 hour hike yesterday. Through the northern California redwoods.

Got more work done in those 4 hours talking to Voice through my AirPods then I do in 8 hours at my desk

Work can be done ANYWHERE now

45 minute drive back using self driving? Now 45 minutes I can talk to Voice and work on side projects

20 minutes in the cafe? I can sit and talk to Voice and when I get home I have drafts on my computer for my newsletter for the next month

Being able to just use your voice to talk to a super intelligence that controls your computer is unlike anything we’ve ever experienced before

I don’t even care that the voice sounds human like, or you can interrupt it, or any of the wild advancements they made to the tech

It’s the fact that it can control my computer, meaning all I need to get incredible work done is talk through my AirPods anywhere in the world that is the major game changer for me

I don’t think people truly understand the implications of this yet

Why even have a desk or monitor anymore. Work can be done ANYWHERE now

The key is your set up:

1. Choose one device (preferably an always on desktop) as your main “headquarters” device all your work gets done on

2. Get the ChatGPT app on all your other devices (iPhone, iPad, laptops, Mac Minis)

3. Set up ‘connections’ in your settings so that all your ‘node’ devices can control your ‘headquarters’ device

4. Go legit anywhere in the world. Turn on Voice. Ask it to brief you on your projects, give you a recommended next step, then spin up new threads to do work

I really don’t think work looks the same moving forward.

[Scott May @b00tahead]

Who remembers HipChat?

[Scott May @b00tahead]

Anybody out there using AI models locally? If so, what problems are you using it to solve?

Have you configured it with anything else, like Obsidian or Openclaw? I’ve been using it with VS Code, and besides being a little slow, it’s been working pretty well.

I understand I'm trading off performance, but I'm getting a little jaded with how the frontier model companies are operating.

Curious what others' experiences are.

[Scott May @b00tahead]

The algorithm update is 100% tangible and way better.

[Scott May @b00tahead]

@hardmaru Yeah I get it. It's fun to play with, has made things easier at work. But I don't get the rat race mentality.