cj

Product designer, prev @PlutoTV.

[cj @figmaRat]

Tamsui, Taipei

[cj @figmaRat]

Some UIs should be probabilistic. Others should be deterministic.

That’s why ChatGPT won’t replace the calculator.

When I type 1 + 1, I don’t want the most probable answer. I want 2.

[cj @figmaRat]

@mignano Agree. Trust is the key. It is hard for users to trust a probabilistic interface when they expect a deterministic action or outcome.

[cj @figmaRat]

Brand is an environment where people come to transform.

[Mark Manson @Markmanson]

The quality of your life is directly proportional to your tolerance for uncertainty.

[Juliette @shedsgns]

people underestimate how much of life is just increasing your surface area for luck:

- travel alone & make friends
- go to events where you know no one
- show up to events where you know everyone
- talk to people at your fav coffee shop
- tell people what you actually want
- share what you’re working on
- follow up with people you liked
- send the bold dm to the “big” person
- make the thing before anyone asks you to
- if you’re underqualified, apply anyway
- help someone without making it transactional
- be a decent, kind human to people
- post the thing before you overthink it

make it easier for good things to find you

[cj @figmaRat]

Wow took this in 2019. Time flies.

[nostalgic @internetpreai]

“self portrait” by saul steinberg (1949)

[cj @figmaRat]

@ben_sage Thank you. But is that a good thing or a bad thing

[Stijn Noorman @stijnnoorman]

Smart people are willing to fail to get smarter.

[Eamin @eamin_ux]

@socoloffalex Tools cannot choose focus

[cj @figmaRat]

We need a 2026-version of this

[cj @figmaRat]

Lol 😂

[cj @figmaRat]

Ok did some quick research with grok…: One designer next to code: use https://t.co/bQBKfEf9TI. Pick Paper only if you want real HTML/CSS and share-link reviews more than Git/IDE workflow.

I will try https://t.co/bQBKfEf9TI out today for sure.

[pen.dev @pendev]

🚀🚀🚀New @pendev is here!

[cj @figmaRat]

@tomkrcha @grok What’s the difference from Paper

[cj @figmaRat]

Great software has a soul. It lightened my day when Paper automatically creates a fun file name for me. It's all in the details. ("Amazing dolphin")

[Nina Schick @NinaDSchick]

What AI has done so far:

MEDICINE

• Helped paralysed people speak again. (Brain implants turn intended speech into words, even recreating their own voice.)

• Helped a paralysed man stand and walk again. (A brain–spine interface let him control his legs by thinking.)

• Helped blind people read and understand the world around them. (Describing surroundings, reading labels and identifying objects through a phone camera.)

• Uncovered cancers doctors would otherwise have missed. (29% higher breast cancer detection in a major study.)

• Identified antibiotic candidates that kill drug-resistant bacteria. (Abaucin targeted a dangerous superbug in lab and animal tests.)

LEARNING

• Made personalised learning available on demand. (An ‘Einstein’ as your personal tutor whenever you want to learn.)

• Helped students learn twice as much in less time. (A custom AI tutor outperformed an active-learning Harvard physics class.)

• Helped people write, code, design and build without years of specialist training.

SCIENTIFIC DISCOVERY

• Predicted the structures of over 200 million proteins. (Opening new paths to understanding disease and developing medicines.)

• Discovered planets hidden in telescope data. (Including Kepler-90i, the eighth planet in a distant solar system.)

• Recovered ancient writing buried by Vesuvius nearly 2,000 years ago. (Reading inside carbonised scrolls too fragile to unroll.)

• Begun unlocking how animals communicate. (Patterns in whale calls. Evidence that elephants use individual, name-like calls.)

• Produced a proposed solution to one of mathematics’ hardest problems. (Navier–Stokes: 10,000 AI agents, 88 hours, according to OpenAI.)

ENVIRONMENT

• Predicted where a hurricane would strike nine days before landfall. (GraphCast forecast Hurricane Lee’s Nova Scotia landfall about three days ahead of conventional forecasts.)

• Engineered enzymes that break down plastic in hours rather than centuries.

• Detected wildfires before the first emergency call. (Spotting smoke and alerting firefighters earlier.)

• Slashed the weedkiller farmers need by targeting weeds individually. (35% less herbicide in sugarcane trials, with nearly the same weed control.)

ENERGY

• Advanced the science of clean fusion energy. (Controlling and shaping superheated plasma inside an experimental fusion machine.)

• Driven a generational wave of investment in carbon-free energy, from nuclear power to solar and wind. (Microsoft’s Brookfield deal alone targets over 10.5 GW of new renewable capacity by 2030.)

TRANSPORT

• Delivered dramatically safer driverless journeys. (Waymo: 81% fewer injury crashes per mile than human drivers in the areas studied.)

• Given people who cannot drive a new way to travel independently. (Including blind passengers and older people who cannot drive.)

JOBS AND GROWTH

• Fuelled an investment boom. (AI-related investment categories accounted for an estimated 37% of U.S. growth in the first nine months of 2025.)

• Driven demand for the skilled trades building AI infrastructure. (Electricians, welders, construction crews and cooling specialists.)

WHAT AI HAS NOT DONE

• Replaced all the radiologists. Guess what? We still need more of them.

• Used a community’s water. Golf courses use more. (U.S. golf irrigation: roughly 550bn gallons in 2020. Data centres’ direct consumption: 17bn in 2023. Microsoft’s next-generation designs consume zero water for cooling.)

• Raised everyone’s household electricity bills. (Oregon’s PGE: residential bills cut 1.3% after shifting costs to data centres. Indiana’s I&M: proposed household savings of roughly $100 a year, supported by large-customer growth.)

• Demonstrated that it wants to kill us all.

[cj @figmaRat]

@ThiagoSous81240 @uiux_hamad Thank you

[cj @figmaRat]

Code base is the source of truth