Jason

Building. Head of Design @GlueAI.

[Jason @lang]

The best part about all the discourse about design and code and design and code is that you can just use your judgement and pick the best tool for the task.

[Jason @lang]

This is so cool. I’ve always loved Rothko… what a lovely thing.

[Joonas Virtanen @joonasvirtanen]

made a site that picks the closest rothko for how the weather feels outside your window

[Jason @lang]

@LariLutke @figma Seeing the same thing this morning — I can't search for any plugins. Infinite spinner. Desktop app, everything updated. @figma any solutions?

[Jason @lang]

@thsottiaux Hi! Any chance we can get a functional file tree back? It’s not working after latest update.

[Jason @lang]

@jhe151004 @JamesZmSun Hey, adding on here - feels like there’s something wrong. I depend on the file tree view. I notice in the Mac app that the toggle file tree menu items does nothing. Hoping this is just a bug.

[Karri Saarinen @karrisaarinen]

A common dynamic I observe with AI: it feels most impressive when you don’t know much about the subject, don’t care or don’t have a clear idea of what the you want.

This applies across design, code, legal, and more. If I don’t know code very well, every piece of code it writes feels very impressive.

Once you know what something should feel or look like, it becomes almost impossible to guide AI there. And you definitely can’t one-shot it.

[Karri Saarinen @karrisaarinen]

https://t.co/srw9NQMkH2

[Jason @lang]

Every multi-paragraph AI-generated slop pitch for legitimately cool tools and techniques on here is so tiresome. Take the time to talk about your work!

[Jason @lang]

@prefonty @_catwu Any ideas here @_catwu? Is this due to being on a team plan maybe?

[Jason @lang]

@_catwu This is what I'm seeing!

[Tom Johnson @tomjohndesign]

with this 100%. I think we undermine the practice and benefit of design if tools like cursor (or any vibe coding tool for that matter) are used to replace the left half of this chart.

That's where code can be used to created crazy dynamic experiments, big ideas, and start to get a idea for how something feels.

the problem is that they push back on be used to create massive upheavals, wildly diverging ideas, inversions of current app structures when used in prod.

yes, they are amazing once a problem has been defined and give designers a direct path to realization of ideas, but they don't allow for the freeform exploration that's where novel ideas are tried and tested. they can be a component in that process, a prototyping tool, but a great prototype should be able to be thrown away.

prototypes need to not scale, need to be unbound by performance, accessibility, and technical constraints. they should serve to expose those constrains because of the feedback, but also push against them, in case a constraint is just a facade or a legacy roadblock.

I love that cursor added these features, since it gives a way to reach into production and incrementally change or work visually within a real app environment, which is a part of design that has always relied on others. the last 10-20% of making things, or the tweaks that are only noticed after something is real.

But there's no way this type of workflow replaces the real meat of design, the ideation, exploration, bad ideas, random rabbit holes, and bulk of the "what if..." workflow. It can now be a part, but not the whole. not even close.

[Jason @lang]

I've been planning and coding on and off all weekend with Opus 4.5... feeling pretty magical.

[Karri Saarinen @karrisaarinen]

Quality first.

People should have a life outside of work. Place to enjoy life, develop their tastes, gather inspiration. When you feel better, your work is better. It naturally bleeds into what you make.
https://t.co/GaGDB5DMfl

[Jason @lang]

Hey @figma folks — I don't think we ever need to see "Frame 09" any more. An AI generated name would be better than unnamed item in the layers panel, even if not perfect all the time.

[Jeff Fluhr @jefffluhr]

The latest from @GlueAI just launched on Product Hunt - they’re all in on MCP and creating the first agentic team chat. Check it out.

[Charly Wargnier @DataChaz]

For years I thought @SlackHQ would be the one to fuse team chat with AI.

Turns out, @GlueAI is what Slack should’ve become!

It’s the first multiplayer, MCP-powered, agentic chat platform, and it just announced a $20 M Series A.

Quick dive 🧵↓

[Jason @lang]

Go check it out!

[Glue @GlueAI]

Now live on @ProductHunt! Show your support for AI-partnered, MCP-integrated, anti-channel-chaos team chat: https://t.co/SFlcJvfMYV

[Jason @lang]

And this is only one example. With Glue AI and MCP, opportunities for these kinds of workflows are endless. I'm really excited to keep building here @GlueAI. Stay tuned for what comes next!

[Jason @lang]

It's a good day at @GlueAI! Today, we're announcing that we raised a $20M Series A.

We're digging deep into agentic team chat, working to build a world-class experience for you, your team, and all your tools to work together seamlessly.

https://t.co/DlwNmMWeLR

[Jason @lang]

Glue AI will take the context of the conversation, use Linear's MCP tools and create a new issue and return the link right to the thread. It's such a powerful way to move through your work day.