Benji Taylor

head of design @x & @spacexsi

[Benji Taylor @benjitaylor]

First thing on the agenda: improve everything

[Benji Taylor @benjitaylor]

Grok Bot is now out of beta. Highly recommend having a teammate whose entire job is helping you.

[Benji Taylor @benjitaylor]

@aarongrider 🔥

[Benji Taylor @benjitaylor]

@bot read all the replies to this post and send me a message of the top requests ranked by number of reports.

[Benji Taylor @benjitaylor]

The #1 thing you'd fix on 𝕏 if you could wave a magic wand is...

[Benji Taylor @benjitaylor]

@luciascarlet what’s the bug?

[Benji Taylor @benjitaylor]

@soleio @bot we have a setting for showing/hiding bots in chat, is it not working for you?

[Benji Taylor @benjitaylor]

@cyze_dev can you elaborate re chat and grok not working? what doesn't work specifically?

[Benji Taylor @benjitaylor]

The new version of 𝕏 for web is significantly faster, with cleaner UI and better interactions across the board. It also takes advantage of XDS, our brand new component library. I'm excited to see it roll out to more people in the coming weeks/months. Great effort from the whole eng and design team.

[Yagiz Nizipli @yagiznizipli]

The web rewrite is working.

On a slow connection, the old X web took more than 22 seconds to show the first post on a profile. The new X web does it in 2.7 seconds. Here's how we did it, and how we're rolling it out one country at a time.

https://t.co/LBUqTnINTa

[Benji Taylor @benjitaylor]

@Baconbrix stageshow? :)

[Benji Taylor @benjitaylor]

We gave our 𝕏 app icons a little refresh.

[Benji Taylor @benjitaylor]

As model taste improves, I suspect it won’t be long until this skill is no longer needed. With that said, every demo made with it is a small, well-built example of this kind of UI, which is the sort of thing models learn from. So if it plays a small part in making itself unnecessary, that seems like a fair trade!

You can read more about it here: https://t.co/dPUri39SMH

[Benji Taylor @benjitaylor]

Stageshow: a skill that helps your agent make better faux UI stills, animations, bento grids, and more.

npx skills add benjitaylor/skills --skill stageshow

[Benji Taylor @benjitaylor]

One way I tested it was by recreating small moments from apps I use daily, like Figma, Gmail, Finder and Spotify, etc. I found Stageshow to consistently outperform the same prompts that didn’t have the skill.

[Benji Taylor @benjitaylor]

Selfishly using our upcoming 𝕏 web rewrite to build things I've always wanted. Here's a quality of life improvement: see how your profile will look to others before you hit save.

[Benji Taylor @benjitaylor]

@petersellis @X @SpaceX Already enjoying working together - excited for what's to come!

[Benji Taylor @benjitaylor]

@lukebvrker @bot @kenneth_kuh keeps getting better!

[Benji Taylor @benjitaylor]

Pumpkin Bot has been achieved internally (restart your app)

[Benji Taylor @benjitaylor]

To set this one up specifically, we built a custom brand tool that creates assets within the boundaries defined by the design team. We then made an internal API for the tool and gave an API key to the Team Bot. Everyone else can then just talk to the Team Bot!

[Benji Taylor @benjitaylor]

We gave the whole team a Grok Bot that knows our brand. Now anyone can make a great deck in seconds, and I don't have to worry if someone is using the wrong font.