Jonny Burch

Designer/exited founder. Building AI practices for design and product at Tinkering as

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@nbaschez Building this for ourselves with Notion as the UI/data layer then some agents to pull the strings. Early days but I think it's the best option right now...

I agree there's a gap between 'frontier labs owned opinionated workflows' and claw/md style chaos.

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@manojranaweera @sarahdrinkwater This one is on agents, but all sorts of AI flavoured, mainly for design/product teams... https://t.co/i1z5ic1kLs

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@manojranaweera @sarahdrinkwater Worlds collide! Unfortunately running a workshop in London that night 🫠

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Putting AI in the middle of your process, whether that's writing, design, building etc. is great. But AI being the last thing that touches what you're working on? Might be too much.

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It's pretty easy to spot AI slop actually. It usually looks like 'too much'.

Too much animation
Too many words
Too much code
Too many pages
Too much enthusiasm

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This is a function of generation being free, but curation and judgement actually getting far more expensive.

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Be me:
> keyboard starts randomly pressing space space space over and over
> notice it's only when external monitor is connected
> claude and I looking in computer's guts, can't fix for days
> turns out my headphones were on spacebar of USB keyboard connected to monitor

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@thingsinmotion Yes! I've been vibe coding my own one of these but I'd rather not. If it can ingest floorplans that would be rad.

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@joshpuckett @yocline This is how I feel too. Forcing canvases to be design production tools squeezes the joy out of them. E.g I found myself both obsessively using autolayout while hating that I had to.

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@Londonmaxxing @EseKpeji @sarahdrinkwater @charlierward @AnaArsonist @patchworkfilmuk @pluggedfounders Loved it. Not felt an irl ✨vibe✨ like that since pre covid.

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I ended up writing a longer rant about this.

https://t.co/LaeueS8JaH

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Why does everyone claiming 'design is solved' then proceed to show some pound shop Anthropic' greige serif font sludge with terrible hierarchy?

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@taimurabdaal commutemog isn't working in my words with friends sadly

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@fredrivett Yeah there all night! (Mainly hanging in the kitchen area)

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@TomGranot @vercel Lots of stuff I had to hand roll first time - great update.

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@brian_lovin So good. I'm also betting on VMs with https://t.co/xrsv1p0CN3 - all in terminal at the moment (though you can contribute to others' code) but this collaborative slack-like ui is rad. @Mappletons love how the blog post reads too with the narration aligned with visuals.

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@bnj @karrisaarinen @variantui @figma My gut is the design environment needs to come to the code, not the other way round. Layers of control/ui (sure, canvas) on top of a real codebase. Anything else will be lossy. (Having used Claude design I'm surprised that's not how it works).

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SO. If you or someone you know is looking to level up a team on AI, just let us know. We’re really excited to help.

Email me at jonny (at) https://t.co/i1z5ic1SB0 and let's get started.

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Finally: Hack Weeks is evolving.

This time last year Tom and I started running 4 day hack weeks for anyone that wanted to learn more about and build with AI.

People learned. But so did we. We saw how not just individuals but whole teams needed support with this change.

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• Focused build projects in partnership with internal teams
• Working with leaders directly on their personal AI confidence
• And yes, still those team workshops and hack days to get everyone up-skilling and feeling more confident.