iru.

I fix what's rotting under design teams. Systems, ops, automation built to outlive me. Most use AI. I build with it.

[iru. @iruarostegui]

@theo what about creating the 'theo test' and keeping this updated?

[iru. @iruarostegui]

Grok 4.5 coming in hot 🔥
And crushes it on price

[SpaceXAI @SpaceXAI]

Announcing Grok 4.5, our first model trained specifically for coding and agents. It was trained with Cursor and offers frontier intelligence at leading speeds and cost efficiency.

https://t.co/i8HpU7w64k

[iru. @iruarostegui]

Then @orca_build
The workflow was just there. Annotate a diff on markdown or code, hand it back, the agent resolves the comments. The YouTube thing, on my actual knowledge base.

And the things I wasn't even looking for are what I'd miss most now:
- Design Mode: click a UI element in the browser, the HTML, CSS and a screenshot drop straight into context.
- Account hot-swap: personal plus two client repos, no re-logging.
- A board with parallel worktrees, for when the knowledge base, portfolio and design-system work are all moving at once.

If your work lives in a repo, markdown or code, Orca is worth a real look 🧨

[iru. @iruarostegui]

Until last week I was on VS Code every day. My full knowledge base lived there. Meetings, design decisions, research, mostly markdown.

Agent mode kept showing up everywhere. So of course I got triggered. Searched a bit, and found something that really took my attention: adding comments in a file for the AI to solve later. That alone felt like a huge win for my workflow.

End result: I left VS Code completely 🙃

[iru. @iruarostegui]

Cursor first, everyone recommends it. Then Conductor. Then T3 Code, the open-source one I'd been curious about.

All three are strong, I'm not here to rank them. That one loop just never fit the way I work on markdown. So I kept moving.

[iru. @iruarostegui]

the file’s still public if you wanna peek: https://t.co/i9nTb8sTSt

[iru. @iruarostegui]

big shoutout to @donniedamato + the folks in the DS slack.
a bunch of thoughtful comments led to a full naming cleanup in barely UI

some of the changes 👇

[iru. @iruarostegui]

– accent → feedback (clearer for intent + status)
– brand → identity (to separate branding from token exposure)
– color.primary → color.main (fits better as the system’s key color)

[iru. @iruarostegui]

The Figma file is open if you want to test it out → https://t.co/fZKnrDTFyz

[iru. @iruarostegui]

My design system was bloated.
107 color styles. Dozens of components.
I wasn’t even sure what was being used anymore.

So I tried something: Strip it all down using just Figma variables.

[iru. @iruarostegui]

I shared the full breakdown here → https://t.co/LWdNjls5hV

[iru. @iruarostegui]

@svpino What about @Razer ?

[iru. @iruarostegui]

Overall, this was a great experience and a really nice opportunity to celebrate design, meet a lot of people, share knowledge, and learn a lot. That was my main goal for this event, and it was definitely achieved 🚀

[iru. @iruarostegui]

I know it's been a while, but I took some extra time to travel and unwind, and I wanted to share my takeaways from Config 2024! 🧵

[iru. @iruarostegui]

And then, the closing sessions were hardly relevant. “Building a human future with robots” felt more like a sales pitch than anything useful.