Emilee Confrey

Eng @ Suno | Northeast Regional 🚂

[Emilee Confrey @emileeconfrey]

@michlimlim tru

[Emilee Confrey @emileeconfrey]

🔥🚀

[Mikey @MikeyShulman]

Suno has raised over $400M, led by @bondcap, to keep bringing creative fulfillment to people everywhere.
We’re excited to welcome new investors including @IVP, @usv, and @ForerunnerVC , and grateful for the continued support of @matrixvc , @lightspeedvp, @MenloVentures, and Schroders Capital

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[Emilee Confrey @emileeconfrey]

@enggirlfriend i walked by one a few months ago thinking it was a p nifty idea https://t.co/p7FFVufIF0

[Emilee Confrey @emileeconfrey]

the way we build is changing. it’s easier than ever to build. it’s harder than ever to *not* build

[Emilee Confrey @emileeconfrey]

want to think in systems but can’t quite *see* the systems? read “Thinking in Pictures” by Temple Grandin.

when you get to the part about the cows, think literally about “put yourself in their shoes” and how that empathy process applies

[Emilee Confrey @emileeconfrey]

lowkey, if you’re a vibe coding bull, adopt a skeptic the same way an extravert adopts an introvert friend. they’ll be happy to have someone finally listen, and you’ll protect yourself from getting your bank account hacked

[Ryo Lu @ryolu_]

overcooking

you've seen this: someone ships a dashboard that shows every number with a sparkline, every action has a confirmation modal, every empty state has an animated illustration and a tagline. individually each decision made sense to someone. together it feels like chaos. nothing is in focus.

that's overcooking. not one bad decision in isolation, but the accumulation of reasonable ones that no one said no to.

AI makes this worse as the cost of adding dropped to near zero. it can build a feature, even a whole new concept in minutes. so people do. and then they do it again. the thing that started with a clear purpose slowly becomes a collection of additions that are each justifiable but collectively incoherent.

the root problem is that most "new ideas" aren't new. they're repackaging of something that already exists at a more fundamental level. a new sticker on an old concept. it feels like progress because something changed, with a new word and skin – but the thinking didn't go deeper, it just duplicated itself into confusion.

the whole has a core. you feel it once you understand the whole system. everything in it are related and balanced. when you overload it, that gravity weakens. not because any one thing is wrong – but because attention is finite and you force it everywhere.

what we need aren't more tools that make more slop. it's seeing through the chaos, and returning to what the thing actually is, and cutting everything that doesn't serve that. that's harder now, not easier. because there's always something else you could add with one more prompt.

[Emilee Confrey @emileeconfrey]

love what you do, love the people you do it with ^.^

[Emilee Confrey @emileeconfrey]

UX + novel interface design, both on screens and considering screen-less HCI devices

[Gergely Orosz @GergelyOrosz]

Prediction:

The next 12-24 months, "UX-pilled" builders will be in massive demand.

Who can create intuitive interfaces, web+mobile+desktop apps that "feel good," natural, fast, and far better than the competition.

THIS will be the difference vs those building "just" with AI.

[Emilee Confrey @emileeconfrey]

sustainable grind looks like a cosinusidal curve

[claire vo 🖤 @clairevo]

I call this the Trashcan Method of AI Engineering:

1. Identify thing you need
2. Build it fast, comprehension be damned
3. Does anyone actually use it? How? Cool write that down it’s your new spec
4. Throw away all old code and rewrite from scratch

Don’t feel pressured to 1-shot maintainable code. Code is cheap, throw it away more.

[Nick Confrey @nickconfrey]

Tome is a @TheWebbyAwards nominee!! best consumer app for culture & learning

grew up watching these as the 'oscars of the internet', pretty surreal to be part of it now 🥹

[Emilee Confrey @emileeconfrey]

@clairevo Not to mention most of the time the knobs aren’t reachable from outside of the shower. Like NO I don’t want to freeze/burn while I adjust the water temp 🙄

[Emilee Confrey @emileeconfrey]

@9th this is art 🎨

[Emilee Confrey @emileeconfrey]

day-to-day gets easier after realizing “bespoke” is a systemically solvable subset of “manual work”

simultaneously we should learn to distinguish where human-in-the-loop manual work captures intent and should not be automated away

[Emilee Confrey @emileeconfrey]

@yourgirlhils appreciate the empathy approach here

[Emilee Confrey @emileeconfrey]

has anyone else noticed spotify’s streaming experience slowly but surely decreasing over the past couple of years?

i.e. periodic 0.5s buffering pauses

[Emilee Confrey @emileeconfrey]

The “why” context is everything, always has been

Companies slow down simply because people have a (safe) bias to keep things around because there “must have been a reason”

When that reason is outdated every week at our rate of change, then most things built are debt

Reap.

[andrew schreiber @AndrewSchrbr]

found a random openclaw use case: group travel itineraries

tell your claw your detailed travel preferences, then have everyone's claw find and debate options. saves time and avoids pointless friction from when people get emotionally invested in incompatible ideas

[Emilee Confrey @emileeconfrey]

@AndrewSchrbr 100% - can confirm this worked wonders for a trip I’m going on next week