Alex Cook

Product & Design. Previously led design at Asana & Google (Lens, Search, Maps, Ads, and more). A designer's job is to represent the diversity of the world.

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@itspatmorgan Whiteboarding costs you zero tokens

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@elsigh I probably shouldn’t even be replying…

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@elsigh Stairway to Serverless

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Taste isn't just knowing what to do. It's knowing what not to do.

Every time I design something with an LLM I spend so much time removing unnecessary elements. Claude, can you remove the badges? Can you remove that gradient? Can you remove the extra button? Etc.

The machine will learn eventually, but we aren't there yet. The latest models still overdo it.

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@BillPourquoimec Between Two Ferns vibes

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@byst 💙💙💙

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@PatThomas1964 Bob is still one of the good ones

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@forcefeedglass Epic!

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@editaurus I’ve seen them a few times and they only spoke to the crowd once. It was in between two songs and Kevin Shields pointed to his guitar and blurted out the phrase “J. Mascis Jazzmaster.”

It was oddly reminiscent of the product placement scene in Wayne’s World.

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@Grant_Shirley4 Dream going all the way!

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@abduzeedo @antigravity Burning some tokens rn!

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@mattybtweets69 Will also require you to move to a blue zone and get on a serious longevity plan.

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@elsigh Wish I was in town so I could be there!

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@Gun_Is_Son @huerco_s I listen this to fall asleep sometimes. Beautiful sounds for switching off.

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@popcornjebus My brother is a mathematician. Will send it to him.

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Now that I have a new site, I've got a place for my random coding experiments. Here's a visualization of the Collatz conjecture.

Pick any positive whole number. If it's odd, triple it and add one. If it's even, cut it in half. Repeat until you reach 1.

27 takes 111 steps and climbs as high as 9,232 on the way. 28 takes 18.

Every number anyone has checked finds its way back to 1, but no one has proved they all do.

https://t.co/qqnfEOTUvj

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@popcornjebus I’m not a mathematician so I can’t help you out with this one.

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@abduzeedo Soon!

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New site launched
https://t.co/tA1UlyFnlt

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@vanschneider Maybe we are already there. How many people writing Rust with an agent could write Hello World in Rust by hand?