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[Bhavin Turakhia @bhavintu]

AI models are idea-amplifiers and articulation engines, but “point-of-view" is a human property

Frontier models are trained on vast amounts of human text and behavior. As a result, their learned representations tend to reflect a statistical synthesis of many perspectives - an extraordinarily capable “average” of the internet, books, and shared human knowledge. This is why they can answer questions, write code, and solve complex problems so effectively. And therein lies their key limitation - they do not imbibe a singular, unique, point of view.

There’s a meaningful difference between “building a product by prompting” (e.g., asking an LLM to generate requirements and write the code for an HR tool) and building a product with a point of view.

A POV is anchored in embodiment, incentives, scars, loyalties, taste formed under constraint, and irreversible choices. Models don’t have consequences, reputational risk, hunger, boredom, shame, pride, or obsession - things that help build a distinctive POV. A point of view is not merely a list of features; it’s a consistent set of beliefs about what matters, what doesn’t, which tradeoffs are acceptable, and what should be sacrificed to preserve the core. In humans, that coherence is shaped by unique lived experiences.

An AI can generate a competent spec for a music player. It may even include clever ideas. However in order to build an ipod I would need Steve Job's point of view - his set of non-negotiables: extreme simplicity, end-to-end integration, aesthetic clarity, an intolerance for clutter. That point of view was path-dependent: it emerged from a specific life and a long sequence of choices. A general-purpose model cannot reproduce that uniqueness unless (1) it is trained or tuned on a concentrated approximation of that worldview, or (2) it is prompted with enough explicit context to act as a faithful simulator of it.

AI can demonstrate taste, but that taste is largely a function of two things: (1) patterns in its training data and (2) the constraints and goals provided in the prompt or system design. Models can express taste, but it does not own taste in the way people do. A human’s POV shows up most clearly in what they refuse to do, what they simplify aggressively, what tradeoffs they repeatedly choose, and the narrative they’re willing to bet years on.

To be clear, this is not the claim that AI cannot exhibit a point of view. Rather that each human’s point of view is intrinsically personal, shaped by unique experience, and that uniqueness has lasting value when building products for other humans.

In practice, humans will continue to differentiate on “what to build” and “why” - the values, tradeoffs, and narrative that guide design. AI is rapidly taking over much of the “how” - the buildout, and increasingly helping refine the articulation and execution of “what to build.”

Frontier models are idea-amplifiers and articulation engines, but “POV” is the property of each individual human and comes from lived constraints + long-term commitment, which models don’t possess intrinsically.

[Anukriti @anukritivee]

... and here we are with https://t.co/hsrYeJJi1K 🥳
Kudos to the team for making it to @awwwards ❤️
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@unacademytech @unacademy

[Anukriti @anukritivee]

We have made some really cool things at @Unacademy in 2021 and we've made an even cooler piece to get you through it all. Let's roll right into it https://t.co/LWEL31a0r7

To the amazing collaboration and the magic of @LottieFiles ✨

[rauno @raunofreiberg]

yo what if we could surf the web on an infinite canvas?

a spatial browser!

[rishi @beingabstrac]

@unacademytech Great to see it go live! Awesome job.. @Thecoldarted @mayankgarg96

[rishi @beingabstrac]

🙌🏻🚀

[Gaurav Munjal @gauravmunjal]

Unacademy Group has raised a new investment round from Tiger Global Management and Dragoneer Investment Group. The funding round values Unacademy Group at $2B.

[George Kedenburg III @GK3]

some of the best people i’ve ever worked with are practically ghosts on here

aaaand you probably already follow some of the worst 🥶

[Vincent Bidaux @vinchubang]

Live in @Webflow today, a color Contrast Ratio check tool similar to Chrome’s. A click on the eye icon will overlay the area where to pick AA and AAA colors.

It’s so convenient to have it right in the color picker dialog.

[rishi @beingabstrac]

🦄 🚀

[Gaurav Munjal @gauravmunjal]

Unacademy Group has raised $150M in a round led by Softbank valuing us at $1.45B post the funding. Great to have them onboard as a partner in our journey.

Our existing investors General Atlantic, Sequoia India, Nexus, Facebook and Blume also participated in the round.

[Michael Feldstein @msfeldstein]

wowowow i think the Scripter plugin for @figmadesign might be stealing my heart for creative coding. It's a different workflow but i think this could be a super powerful mix of procedural + hands-on. Nice work @rsms. https://t.co/y5MaTtek5p

[Jordan Singer @jsngr]

This changes everything. 🤯

With GPT-3, I built a Figma plugin to design for you.

I call it "Designer"

[Sharif Shameem @sharifshameem]

This is mind blowing.

With GPT-3, I built a layout generator where you just describe any layout you want, and it generates the JSX code for you.

W H A T

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

.@JeffBezos is a copy 🐈 haha

[Anima @AnimaApp]

Announcing @AnimaApp for @figmadesign 🥳

Create high fidelity prototypes in Figma, and export HTML code with a click ✨

https://t.co/eX65XtvFvC

#AnimaApp #figma #Design #UI #UX

[jack @jackbutcher]

Code makes it run.
Design makes it work.

[Asif Ahmed 🐼 @asif_ahmed]

CSS Overview in @ChromeDevTools is a gem! 💎

[Amazon Web Services @awscloud]

Introducing Amazon Honeycode: Quickly build powerful mobile & web apps – with no programming required. Build a better way to work for your team. https://t.co/MI4syczRiE

[Gene Ross @generosss]

It physically hurts me when I see this in someones file

[Alexis Ohanian 🗽 @alexisohanian]

I've resigned as a member of the reddit board, I have urged them to fill my seat with a black candidate, + I will use future gains on my Reddit stock to serve the black community, chiefly to curb racial hate, and I’m starting with a pledge of $1M to @kaepernick7’s @yourrightscamp

[Una 🇺🇦 @Una]

🎉 Aspect Ratio just landed in Chrome Canary! 🎉

➡️Check it out by enabling the experimental web platform features flag in version 84.0.4145.0 or later

👋🏽 Say your goodbyes to 56.25% and let me know if you find any bugs! 🐞