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UI/UX designer 👩‍💻 .: sunshine lover 🌞 :. life long learner 🤓

[Ryo Lu @ryolu_]

when the dream becomes the job

i used to think the dream was to make my hobby my work.

to spend my life close to the things i loved: computers, tools, interfaces, systems, tiny details, the feeling of making something from nothing. the things i used to do at night, after school, after work, in the margins of life, somehow became the center of my life.

and it is a dream. i don’t want to pretend otherwise.

there is a very specific happiness in getting paid to care. in meeting other people who care. in building a language around your obsession. in seeing something that lived only in your head become real enough for other people to touch.

but there is also a quiet pain in it.

because the thing that once belonged only to you no longer belongs only to you.

it becomes attached to deadlines, teams, customers, strategy, money, reputation, momentum... curiosity becomes roadmap. taste becomes decision-making. play becomes output. the thing you once used to escape the world becomes the thing through which the world reaches you.

and now there is another strange layer: the machines are getting good at the work too.

not just the boring parts. the parts that used to feel close to the heart. writing, coding, designing, reasoning, making taste-like decisions, turning vague ideas into something real. the things we once used as proof that we had something special inside us are becoming things a model can approximate, remix, and sometimes do faster.

that can feel scary in a very specific way.

not only because of jobs or competition, but because it touches the myth you built around yourself. if the thing i became good at can be done by a machine, then what part of it was really me?

i think that question is painful because it arrives at the same place.

the original love.

before the title, before the company, before the taste became a role, before the work became useful to other people, there was a small fire inside. curiosity. obsession. the feeling that the world became more alive when you understood a little more of it, or made a tiny piece of it bend to your will.

AI can make the output faster. it can even raise the floor of the craft. but it cannot want on your behalf. it cannot decide what is worth loving. it cannot protect the strange private thread that made you care in the first place.

maybe that is what becomes more important now.

not whether you can still produce the artifact by hand. not whether you can outperform the machine at every task. that game is already changing.

the real question is whether you still have a relationship with the source.

the part with no audience. no roadmap. no deadline. the part that can wander, collect strange references, make useless things. follow beauty, be wrong, be slow, be you, be true.

because that part is not separate from the work. it is the source of the work.

if you lose it, you can still operate. you can still manage the machine. you can still prompt, review, decide, ship, and keep things moving.

but the work becomes thinner. safer. more explainable. less alive.

so maybe the real discipline is not to work harder, rest more, or care less.

maybe it is to keep returning to the place where the love began – before it became useful, before it became legible, before anyone needed anything from it, before even the machine could mirror it back to you.

not to escape the work.

to make sure the fire inside is still alive.

[🖤 Thu 💙 Thu 💛 @ledkthu]

'The tool is just a multiplier. If your base is zero, multiplying it by any number still gives you zero.' this! https://t.co/HEf3KPsB7g

[🖤 Thu 💙 Thu 💛 @ledkthu]

woke up in the middle of the night and can't fall back to sleep. thinking about work, AI, vibe coding, Chloe. then work, vibe coding, AI, and Chloe. talking to chatGPT about it. getting some advice. still can't sleep 😴 worrying about the future of humanity 🥹

[🖤 Thu 💙 Thu 💛 @ledkthu]

💗@v0 🤯🔥

[OpenAI @OpenAI]

Say hello to GPT-4o, our new flagship model which can reason across audio, vision, and text in real time: https://t.co/MYHZB79UqN

Text and image input rolling out today in API and ChatGPT with voice and video in the coming weeks.

[🖤 Thu 💙 Thu 💛 @ledkthu]

🤯🤯🤯

[OpenAI @OpenAI]

Introducing Sora, our text-to-video model.

Sora can create videos of up to 60 seconds featuring highly detailed scenes, complex camera motion, and multiple characters with vibrant emotions.

https://t.co/YYpOAcrXQ3

Prompt: “Beautiful, snowy Tokyo city is bustling. The camera moves through the bustling city street, following several people enjoying the beautiful snowy weather and shopping at nearby stalls. Gorgeous sakura petals are flying through the wind along with snowflakes.”

[🖤 Thu 💙 Thu 💛 @ledkthu]

trying Gemini out now 🤩

[Made by Google @madebygoogle]

Pixel users can get access to Gemini in a number of ways... Try it now! 😍#ChatWithGemini https://t.co/eFM2fecR8i

[Brian Chesky @bchesky]

Sam Altman is one of the best founders of his generation and has made an immense contribution to our industry

[🖤 Thu 💙 Thu 💛 @ledkthu]

this is how @duolingo do halloween?! 🫠

[🖤 Thu 💙 Thu 💛 @ledkthu]

the best collab yet!

[OpenAI @OpenAI]

DALL·E 3🤝ChatGPT

[🖤 Thu 💙 Thu 💛 @ledkthu]

👏🏼👏🏼 https://t.co/GIpJe59kij via @Verge

[🖤 Thu 💙 Thu 💛 @ledkthu]

bye bye birdie 🐦

[🖤 Thu 💙 Thu 💛 @ledkthu]

ive been to so many events in the last 2 months in SF (#sftechweek #sfdw), but #Config2023 was the BEST one yet!!! 💜💛🩷

[Figma @figma]

#Config2023 launches bridge the gap between design and development, all in Figma.

→ Dev Mode, a new space for developers
→ Variables
→ Advanced prototyping
→ Auto layout updates
→ Font picker
→ File browser redesign

Plus, we previewed the future of Figma with AI and announced the acquisition of @diagram. https://t.co/RB3qHFSSPz

[Figma @figma]

🎁 Wrap your head around this

Automatically keep your auto layout contents contained and in nice, orderly rows (or columns) with the new ability to wrap to a new line.

https://t.co/R3lrvJigbR

[luis. @disco_lu]

We spend a lot of time talking about component structure, but the library files themselves are often ignored

So what goes into structuring a good Figma component library?

Here are a few tips, hopefully a good starting point 📈

[🖤 Thu 💙 Thu 💛 @ledkthu]

'StyleDrop 👉 Virtually perfectly acquires the style of any image.'

[Javi Lopez ⛩️ @javilopen]

https://t.co/Jomx76b64K

[🖤 Thu 💙 Thu 💛 @ledkthu]

never never ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever drink again

[🖤 Thu 💙 Thu 💛 @ledkthu]

what's going on with the @StreamOnMax app?!?! i lost all my watching progress every single time i logged back in 🧐 and the new UX is quite frustrating 😕

[🖤 Thu 💙 Thu 💛 @ledkthu]

yesterday was the first time .ever. i listened to Baby shark song 🦈 and now the whole world turns against me 🤨