Daniel Howells

AI Product Architect, @materialbank a.k.a. @siteinspire. Work → Instagram →

[Daniel Howells @howells]

After about 20 years of being indie, I've taken on a full time role at @materialbank and @SANDOW, figuring out what the future of AI-native architecture and interiors products look like.

It's such an insanely exciting time to be in tech, especially in an sector I love, and it's been so good working with @jashsak, @MrGarriock, and Adam Sandow in figuring out what's to come.

https://t.co/kqY6RKfhpl

[Daniel Howells @howells]

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Every product should offer up the tools for you to gen UI on demand in a way you want. Every report, presentation, spreadsheet is a Claude artefact now, built by mashing together a cacophony of mcp connections.

[ben hylak @benhylak]

every product i use should just be a headless mcp, that feeds into an agent, where i never have to think about anything underneath.

except for our product, of course.

in our product, customers love the ui and love us very much.

we're special that way.

[Daniel Howells @howells]

I guarantee however @paper delivers components is going to be superb. It’s my second most used tool after @t3dotcodes right now.

[Stephen Haney @stephenhaney]

I wanted to share more about Components in @paper to help everyone plan for the upcoming launch. We've been hard at work and we have something truly next level to ship soon.

1. Components dev is going very well. We don't set hard deadlines, we're a "release it when it's good" kind of product, but I'd estimate ~1 month or so. Certainly before EOY.

2. Creating one shared world from your codebase to the canvas and back is the priority.

We don't want to just repeat the abstractions from existing design tools; we want to fix the fragmented workflow between developers and designers. But we also don't want to add cognitive load or engineering concept while you're designing.

Principle: designing with components should feel familiar, designer-first, and then also happen to align to your codebase effortlessly. No tool has ever pulled this off yet.

3. The initial components release will be mature and include: slots, variants with props, React in, React out, and full agent support. Components from your codebase can also run real code, so components can have logic, dates, and math.

4. Agents can read and write components quickly, accurately, and with low token usage. To your agent, components in Paper just look like React, which means they already know exactly how to use them.

I'm so excited to share Paper components with the Paper community. Thanks for your patience as we do the R&D necessary to ship something next level 🙏

[signüll @signulll]

ppl think anthropic has a retention problem when in reality gta vi drops nov 19 & these guys are just exhibiting strong long horizon mental planning.

[Boris Starkov @ktoya_me]

Introducing https://t.co/427WVklG7W

A massive isometric pixel map of London, based on amazing NYC demo by @_coenen from 9 months ago

My agent created the dataset, finetuned qwen image LoRA adapter, did a multiday inference run and built an efficient tile viewer!

[Glauber @glauberxyz]

Just realized people haven’t been using sparkle icon for AI anymore. That’s progress if we’re assuming all things have AI behind the curtain. But kudos to whoever came up with that icon in the first place - bc boy, it was a fever

[Daniel Howells @howells]

Truly brilliant

[Boris Starkov @ktoya_me]

Introducing https://t.co/427WVklG7W

A massive isometric pixel map of London, based on amazing NYC demo by @_coenen from 9 months ago

My agent created the dataset, finetuned qwen image LoRA adapter, did a multiday inference run and built an efficient tile viewer!

[Daniel Howells @howells]

@larsencc Yeah it looks incredible. Great automotive design is possible.

[Daniel Howells @howells]

@appltn i'm banking on you giving me a mission s as a thank you one day andy

[Daniel Howells @howells]

A good interview question: do you think the Tesla roadster looks good

If they get the answer correct they get the job and a mission s as a company car

[Porsche @Porsche]

Mission S.

Authentic. Consistent. Timeless.

A glimpse into the future - shaped by our heritage. Mid-engine architecture. A focus on the driver and the driving experience.

Call it a love letter.

[Daniel Howells @howells]

I was slow to adopt T3 but Orchestrator in the nightlies has been so, so good. Seamless with two machines and an iPhone, and switching between Calude and Codex accounts seamlessly mid-session, and cross thread comms has been perfect.

[Julius @jullerino]

Orchestrator V2 is now out on the stable channel in @t3dotcodes! We also thought it was time we drop the Alpha branding, so we call this release 0.1.0 Beta.

Mobile store builds are also updated. Versions 2.0.0 are available to everyone on both App Store and the Play Store!

[Daniel Howells @howells]

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[Benji Taylor @benjitaylor]

I no longer see any compelling reason to believe that taste is some permanent boundary LLMs won’t cross. It’s already happening.

[Daniel Howells @howells]

@RobAlderson @garbnzgh @jameschambers @bot Of course Rob — go for it.

[Daniel Howells @howells]

Yes to everything Mark and James said.

BUT chatting to normals who seem to not care one jot about AI is one of life's great pleasures; it's pulls me out of a hole and is prob good for me! I'm extremely careful never to start rabbiting on AI unbidden, only if someone asks me about it.

[Daniel Howells @howells]

@jameschambers I have a Mac Studio incoming for this purpose I’ve found remote so annoying. Am I making a £4k mistake idk

[Daniel Howells @howells]

💯 So true. Seeing ideas shared is like listening to someone describe their dreams now, but seeing something focussed and interesting delivered perfectly e2e is so impressive.

[David McGillivray @dmcgco]

People are saying execution is now irrelevant. I think opposite is true. The bar to executing a software idea is near zero. But quality of execution is more of a differentiator than ever. Good ideas badly made used to be promising ‘toys’ but now feel like throwaway party tricks

[Daniel Howells @howells]

@jameschambers @garbnzgh yeah!

[Daniel Howells @howells]

@garbnzgh @jameschambers it's a grok bot agent that reads all the endless emails/newsletters from penny's school, and navigates the forum site they use to post notices. it goes through the year-group whatsapp to pick out key info and summarises it all

[Daniel Howells @howells]

@jameschambers Perfect

[almonk @almonk]

_posts worst motion graphics you’ve ever seen_
> Opus 5.5 is insane!