Vishal Iyer

[Vishal Iyer @iyervish]

@tomfgoodwin @TimurNegru It’s not hard to get eggs in the morning in Italy (outside of Rome, Milan etc)- it’s virtually impossible to

[Silicon Valley Fodder @Playerinthgame]

Here's my promised explainer. Doing my best to synthesize a lot of info here so check all my info; don't rely on it
So - the SpaceX IPO (SPCX:NASDAQ)

1/ Normally, a company with a massive valuation has to wait months to a year after its IPO before index funds are allowed to buy

[Vishal Iyer @iyervish]

Cursor has continued to be my primary tool as a designer despite the notion that IDE’s are a relic. I still find a ton of value in the UI affordances.

[Paul Bakaus @pbakaus]

composer 2.5 is, as of today, the best way to visually iterate on frontends.

i was frankly surprised by this, but the speed/quality/value ratio of the model and harness is insanely good. cursor is back!

[Vishal Iyer @iyervish]

@GergelyOrosz Your accurate take on unit economics, notwithstanding, the goal of token maxing is to uncover novel workflows and approaches. And some companies are willing to spend an unlimited budget on AI (for now)

[Vishal Iyer @iyervish]

Here’s what I’m doing about this question as an individual- Prepare financially as if @DarioAmodei is right. Prepare professionally as if @ylecun is right.

[Yann LeCun @ylecun]

Dario is wrong.
He knows absolutely nothing about the effects of technological revolutions on the labor market.
Don't listen to him, Sam, Yoshua, Geoff, or me on this topic.
Listen to economists who have spent their career studying this, like @Ph_Aghion , @erikbryn , @DAcemogluMIT , @amcafee , @davidautor

[Vishal Iyer @iyervish]

I used NYC's open data to identify the top addresses with housing code violations. #1 is 765 Lincoln Avenue in Brooklyn with a whopping 2302 open violations, 415 of which are categorized immediately hazardous. Yikes.

[Vishal Iyer @iyervish]

Hey @cursor_ai @ryolu_- the sync layout across windows setting doesn't seem to work. Every time I open a new window, it opens the default view.

[Vishal Iyer @iyervish]

Indian government websites are notoriously bad. So I built Mor — a modern, accessible design system for India.

https://t.co/VtGilCxtT0

[Vishal Iyer @iyervish]

My home state of Virginia doesn't have a design system, so I built one. Introducing Dogwood- https://t.co/mp2g1JFDXf

[Vishal Iyer @iyervish]

You’re adding extra cleanup work *every* single time someone copies text. Bonus points for the panic when someone pastes it somewhere and realizes they just outed themselves 😂. As if the em dashes weren't enough. Plus it's plain egotistical.

DM me to send my royalty check.

[Vishal Iyer @iyervish]

Do you have a design suggestion so obvious and valuable that you should be paid for it? I'll go first-

@OpenAI , no one in the history of copying from ChatGPT has ever wanted the top and bottom cruft that comes along with it. Ever.

[Vishal Iyer @iyervish]

@ryolu_ Not talking about plan mode, where it totally makes sense. It happens in Agent mode as well. Not sure if it’s the LLM doing it or Cursor, but seeing a lot of it in Cursor2, like almost always for me

[Vishal Iyer @iyervish]

@ryolu_ one of my biggest peeves with Cursor is when it asks to confirm the plan for even small tasks. Outside of major changes, I've found the additional confirmation step unnecessary

[Vishal Iyer @iyervish]

@leerob I’m a product designer (who can’t code on my own), but have been almost entirely using Cursor for my work. Keep up the great work!

[Vishal Iyer @iyervish]

Am I the only one who almost always uses @cursor_ai’s Auto model? Most other folks seem to have a specific model they like, but the Auto mode feels like the most effective for me (cost/ results wise).

[Vishal Iyer @iyervish]

@ryancarson Yes, please!

[Vishal Iyer @iyervish]

“Why bother so much about obsolete data-processing machines when far superior models are already in existence? We are striving to engineer the Internet-of-All-Things in the hope that it will make us healthy, happy and powerful.”

[Vishal Iyer @iyervish]

“Yet once authority shifts from humans to algorithms, the humanist projects may become irrelevant. Once we abandon the homo-centric world view in favour of a data-centric world view, human health and happiness may seem far less important.”

[Vishal Iyer @iyervish]

“Initially Dataism will probably accelerate the humanist pursuit of health, happiness and power. Data is spreads itself by promising to fulfil these humanist aspirations.”

[Vishal Iyer @iyervish]

“In order to achieve immortality, bliss and divine powers of creation, we need to process immense amounts of data, far beyond the capacity of the human brain. So the algorithms will do it for us.”