Andrew

Founder, designer, and engineer.

[Andrew @dremnik]

@karrisaarinen love this story and everything counter-narrative about this. thanks Karri

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when you tell her you’re starting another sandbox company

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one of the biggest misconceptions about design is that it's just about pretty colors. but you can't make sensible design decisions without a deep sense of strategic understanding, positioning, and signaling.

I was talking to a founder earlier who wanted product feedback, and was asking my thoughts on his design. I could give the simple answer of a few aesthetic nits like button positions or font choices. and most designers would have probably given that answer. but the position of a button means nothing if the problem frame is wrong to begin with, or if the product's utility isn't being clearly communicated in the first place.

so it spawned a whole brainstorming session about who his competitors are, what his position really is relative to others, the product category — what is this thing? is this a data product? why couldn't I just use Claude?

at one point he mentioned a $250,000 deal that he lost because he misread the org topology and a power player blocked the deal, and the visceral human relatability of that story that finally made his product click — that he was building something to understand the enterprise buyer room. and at that point we could iterate on how to communicate that value to his customers, and design the product around this core message.

​design is an iceberg. there's nothing more important than understanding how deep it goes.

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@karrisaarinen thank you for saying this… so frustrating to see this stupidity and the attention it attracts. the performative suffering is real and unbearably cringe

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@darijan___ @mercor_ai @cognition @Etched @AnthropicAI @BrendanFoody @robertwachen 2ez

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@addyosmani came to the same conclusion awhile back:

https://t.co/ty5onQKpIt

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https://t.co/nsU4dzOEpo

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@whoisnnamdi reminds me a lot of the evolution from data warehouses -> lakes -> lakehouses - I imagine we'll see something similar in how we think about agent workspaces

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@annimaniac you may be interested in my exploration of this a little while back:

https://t.co/vk9ZRKw0GF

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https://t.co/VrIYl6T9cF

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@hypersoren how is it like? haven’t been yet

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@packyM legendary

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source for those who want it:

https://t.co/YuarQfRFJB

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Wispr Flow charges $15/month to send your voice to a server so they can harvest your data.

You can have this for free. Fully private.

parrot is free, open source, runs on-device, and is ultrafast thanks to Apple Neural Engine (does require silicon).

https://t.co/GilWdLzVH5

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@RyanDictation yes I would love to pay for what I already have for free, thanks!

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@systematicls Aschenbrenner’s INTC position perfectly exemplifies this

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@bernhardsson Perhaps with futures + options you could still bet against over-exuberance. you're not necessarily betting against them but betting they are overbought over a given timeline

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@juanjovn @levelsio That spanish water is unreal man.. forgot about that stuff

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@PossibltyResult great article. you might find @hypersoren 's take on this insightful, convergent ideas stated in his article here:

https://t.co/YwrHrXrr47

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@david__booth can't beat @zeddotdev imo