Chethan

Product Designer

[Chethan @chethn]

@raymondopolis Democratically elected kings 👑

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@rupasubramanya Most of them are coming to study from the so called “better institutions” to be a better talent, what’s your point?

[Chethan @chethn]

@omooretweets A true capitalist AI

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@venturetwins Dope 💎

[Chethan @chethn]

@simoncorry @figma 💯 and it happened at such a state of flow that I was so mad. And no clarity on what happened, how much do I get, did I use and how to solve it. This was a poor implementation.

[Krzysztof Iwanek @Chris_Iwanek]

One of the cool pieces of news to emerge during those last, dark weeks is that nearly 30 inscriptions in Tamil Brahmi were found in the Egyptian Valley of Kings. This discovery means that apperently Indian travellers, likely merchants, had been coming to Egypt in the ancient era.

[Chethan @chethn]

@PlanetObscure @Rainmaker1973 Of course, but the point is the dancer elegantly move from one aesthetically pleasing pose to another, shown mathematically.

A normal movement won’t be aesthetically pleasing all the time.

[Keenan Crane @keenanisalive]

I drew one of these by hand, based on a photo. The other is AI generated, based on the same photo.

But which is which, and why does it matter, in what context? Is the AI image “slop?” Is mine? Did the AI rip off the photographer’s work? Did I? Did the photographer rip off the fish?

Is this just yet another technology, like 3D rendering or digital painting before it? Or is there a distinguishing feature that makes it fundamentally “less creative?” If we use more generative technology trained on photography, will we end up training fewer photographers? What impact did photography have on painting?

What if I train on my own art? What if I train on my own laptop? What if I have to build a nuclear power plant? What if I work with a community of artists to build a model under a Creative Commons license? What if a community of artists wants to make money? Is that bad? Is it good?

All fair questions, with many shades of gray (or color). Only if the answer is black and white might I question the depth of the analysis.

[Chethan @chethn]

@rahulbhadoriya @Naina_2728 Only if your “target audience” uses 2g needs to care about these things. Even then, designing only for the worst use case is a terrible idea, there are better scaling strategies.

[Chethan @chethn]

@tomjohndesign If you use @figma make to build your first exploration prototype, it’s much easier to convert to figma desig. Then refine and build properly. All the steps you mentioned can be done within make. It’s Claude under the hood.

[علی شریفی زارچی @SharifiZarchi]

I am an Iranian university professor. I was in Iran until last week and directly witnessed the uprising of the Iranian people. What is happening is a revolution born of desperation and courage. I fully and unequivocally endorse the speeches of Masih Alinejad and Ahmad Batebi at the UNSC. Every claim made by the Iranian regime—including by its foreign minister and its UN ambassador—is nothing but deliberate, systematic lies meant to cover up crimes.

The regime has already killed my friend Parsa Saffar, a brilliant medical student at Mashhad University. Was he a terrorist? His only “crime” was being young, educated, and Iranian. The regime has filled the country with thousands of body bags. Were they terrorists too? How unarmed protesters, many of which being very young students can be terrorists? Why the so called "terrorists" that the Iranian regime claims only kill protesters, and not the rally of regime supporters?

Understanding Iran is painfully simple. Iran possesses some of the world’s largest oil, gas, and natural reserves, yet the Islamic Republic has driven the country into collapse: one of the weakest economies in the region, the least-valued currency in the world, crushing inflation, families unable to afford food or rent, massive unemployment, and millions of young people unable to marry or build a future because of economic despair. The people are angry—and rightly so.

The Islamic Republic has turned Iran into a deadlock through aggression, corruption, killing its own citizens, silencing all free voices, and enforcing internet blackouts to hide its brutality. The Iranian people are demanding regime change—just as people did during the Arab Spring in Syria. The same cruel regime that sent forces to help Bashar al-Assad massacre Syrians is now using the same methods to massacre Iranians.

I call on the United Nations, the UN Security Council, and every single government to end their silence in the face of the Islamic Republic’s murder machine. A regime that massacres its own citizens has no red lines—and will not hesitate to kill the citizens of other countries as well. Act now. Stand with the Iranian protesters. End this brutal regime.

#IranMassacre
#IranRevolution2026
#DigitalBlackoutIran

[Anatoly Karlin 🧲💯 @akarlin]

Indians earn the highest wages in Germany. 5,400 Euros per month, ahead of Germans at 4,200 Euros and 3,200 Euros for foreigners in general.

As I never tire of saying, Indians are a blessing unto the nations wherever they go.

[Chethan @chethn]

@BGatesIsaPyscho Random bunch of people minding their own life. So what’s the issue?
They are not her type? Is she looking for a date there? 🤔

[Sameer Rao @CivitasSameer]

Indian art is beautiful, and the last thing I want for it is to be intellectualised by someone who reads Marx and reduces it to some bullshit materialist class-war nonsense. We need more proud indians in this field if we are to present our history and culture to the world

[Chethan @chethn]

@PicturesFoIder These are all people from one village in northern Kerala. So not a representation of all Indians.

Also, do you know why he was photographing them? He was profiling races, at the behest of Hitler.

[Chethan @chethn]

@ryolu_ I have a feature suggestion around this. Make it easy to branch off ideas and explore different directions rather than going down one hole. A good UX around version controlling?

[Chethan @chethn]

@ericlamideas @manthanguptaa Not everything, as you can see from the blog

[Itamar Golan 🤓 @ItakGol]

What it's like to watch AI fix a bug

[Andrej Karpathy @karpathy]

Don't think of LLMs as entities but as simulators. For example, when exploring a topic, don't ask:

"What do you think about xyz"?

There is no "you". Next time try:

"What would be a good group of people to explore xyz? What would they say?"

The LLM can channel/simulate many perspectives but it hasn't "thought about" xyz for a while and over time and formed its own opinions in the way we're used to. If you force it via the use of "you", it will give you something by adopting a personality embedding vector implied by the statistics of its finetuning data and then simulate that. It's fine to do, but there is a lot less mystique to it than I find people naively attribute to "asking an AI".

[juan @juanbuis]

to commemorate alan dye moving from apple to meta, here's one of his best quotes