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A human. A designer. A developer.

[Satya Nadella @satyanadella]

https://t.co/vLmiBKTtX3

[Karri Saarinen @karrisaarinen]

Atlassian had 16,000 employees?

[Ryo Lu @ryolu_]

software is still about thinking

software has always been about taking ambiguous human needs and crystallizing them into precise, interlocking systems. the craft is in the breakdown: which abstractions to create, where boundaries should live, how pieces communicate.

coding with ai today creates a new trap: the illusion of speed without structure. you can generate code fast, but without clear system architecture – the real boundaries, the actual invariants, the core abstractions – you end up with a pile that works until it doesn't. it's slop because there's no coherent mental model underneath.

ai doesn't replace systems thinking – it amplifies the cost of not doing it. if you don't know what you want structurally, ai fills gaps with whatever pattern it's seen most. you get generic solutions to specific problems. coupled code where you needed clean boundaries. three different ways of doing the same thing because you never specified the one way.

as Cursor handles longer tasks, the gap between "vaguely right direction" and "precisely understood system" compounds exponentially. when agents execute 100 steps instead of 10, your role becomes more important, not less.

the skill shifts from "writing every line" to "holding the system in your head and communicating its essence":

- define boundaries – what are the core abstractions? what should this component know? where does state live?
- specify invariants – what must always be true? what are the constants and defaults that make the system work?
- guide decomposition – how should this break down? what's the natural structure? what's stable vs likely to change?
- maintain coherence – as ai generates more code, you ensure it fits the mental model, follows patterns, respects boundaries.

this is what great architects and designers do: they don't write every line, but they hold the system design and guide toward coherence. agents are just very fast, very literal team members.

the danger is skipping the thinking because ai makes it feel optional. people prompt their way into codebases they don't understand. can't debug because they never designed it. can't extend because there's no structure, just accumulated features.

people who think deeply about systems can now move 100x faster. you spend time on the hard problem – understanding what you're building and why – and ai handles mechanical translation. you're not bogged down in syntax, so you stay in the architectural layer longer.

the future isn't "ai replaces programmers" or "everyone can code now." it's "people who think clearly about systems build incredibly fast, and people who don't generate slop at scale."

the skill becomes: holding complexity, breaking it down cleanly, communicating structure precisely. less syntax, more systems. less implementation, more architecture. less writing code, more designing coherence.

humans are great at seeing patterns, understanding tradeoffs, making judgment calls about how things should fit together.

ai can't save you from unclear thinking – it just makes unclear thinking run faster.

[nm @hoveroverhere]

@lochan_twt Please leave the terminals alone 😭

[John Palmer @johnpalmer]

“bro I spent all weekend in Claude Code it’s incredible”

“oh nice, what did you build?”

“dude my setup is crazy. i’ve got all the vercel skills, plus custom hooks for every project”

“sick, what are you building?”

“my setup is so optimized, i’m using like 5 instances at once”

[Wise @trikcode]

If Microsoft Edge is brave enough to ask to be
your default browser, you can be brave enough to ask that girl out.

[nm @hoveroverhere]

@raroque I love your app Amy. Incredible stuff!

[Alex Lieberman @businessbarista]

whoever decided to make .heic the default image file on macs is a reallll asshole.

[Jay Yang @Jayyanginspires]

Embarrassment is the cost of entry to living a good life. No matter what you do, at the start, you will suck. You will feel cringe. And you will likely get criticism. That’s okay. Wouldn’t you rather try and fail and grow than never try at all?

[nm @hoveroverhere]

@ryolu_ Ryo Lu, the design poet. Even Shakespeare would take your notes.

[Jason Ginsberg @JasonBud]

Engineering and design have always been one and the same for me. At the end of the day, the product has to stand on its own.

Ideas in my head are often best expressed visually.

Excited to bring this new feature to the Cursor Browser, which expands the expressiveness of how we interact with agents.

[nm @hoveroverhere]

@figma Come back fast!!!! 🥲😭

[ℏεsam @Hesamation]

Karpathy spilled the formula of truly learning something:
> don’t write blog posts
> don’t do slides
> write the code
> arrange it
> get it to work
if you can truly build it you can say you know it. build from scratch guys.

[Dylan Field @zoink]

CEO’s: Invest in design, or perish.

[The Night Warrior @WarriorNight007]

@AMAZlNGNATURE Cheetah introduces a photographer to her little Cheetos

[nm @hoveroverhere]

@_devJNS COBOL

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@kukreja_abhinav @grok translate please

[Can Vardar @icanvardar]

frontend has officially become more complicated than backend

[nm @hoveroverhere]

Product/feature demos like this 😮‍💨😮‍💨🥵🔥🥵🔥

[Linear @linear]

Introducing Product Intelligence.
AI-assisted product operations for routine, manual tasks.

• Automates the overhead of triage intake
• Detects duplicates and related work
• Suggests the right assignee, team, labels, and more

Now available in Technology Preview.

[nm @hoveroverhere]

@karankendre This is the only way.