Max Tam

Design @sandboxaq

[Max Tam @MTSK3000]

Happy friday. Get Switch AI to herd your agents and go read the new One Piece.
https://t.co/KlVa4kfjCt

[Max Tam @MTSK3000]

At this point I just want to add my personal agent to all of my messaging app convo with my friends.

[Max Tam @MTSK3000]

@_byeforever_ @kyleanthony The stuff are great so take my money. Also the guy is not running a charity @kyleanthony make more great stuff and make more money ❤️🤑

[Max Tam @MTSK3000]

@rybinfx Creepssss but so cool

[Max Tam @MTSK3000]

@trq212 Massively scale up and speed up exploration with AI has been biggest game changer for me.

[Max Tam @MTSK3000]

I'm reviewing a lot of portfolios right now. The most frequently broken thing? Navigation.

So much cool, crazy, interactive motion stuff. Yummy.

But so often I can't find a way back to the last page from a case study.

Please get the basics right.

[Jay Kreps @jaykreps]

A lot of otherwise smart people on Twitter seem 100% convinced AI risks are all fake and stupid and part of some marketing ploy. What is surprising is that some of these people seemingly also believe that AI’s positive uses are on an incredible trajectory of increasing capability with no end in sight. VC Twitter is particularly infected by this pattern. It’s not really coherent.

Most positive use cases for AI have a corresponding “dark version”. If you are super human at coding, you are also super human at hacking. If you are superhuman at structural engineering you are likely superhuman at finding structural flaws to knock buildings down. If you are superhuman at designing drugs, you are superhuman at designing novel undetectable poisons. If you can cure viruses, you can create them. Some of these “dark versions” are not so bad, and some are actually pretty scary. Either way these are real societal and technical problems that need to be solved to get the good stuff and avoid the bad stuff. We’re experiencing the first of these with coding and computer security which is the most advanced, but that won’t be the last. I think we’ll be able to solve these problems, but they aren’t solved yet and if you believe in continued AI progress they are surely coming.

But “bad people using AI” is not the only problem. Uncontrolled AI autonomously doing bad things, despite sounding kind of nutty, is also something we should be concerned about. AI “killing us all” is not the most likely outcome, but the chance of a major civilization-wide catastrophe doesn’t have to be very high for it to be a concern. Again, this is only a problem if capabilities advance to a point that AI can do really crazy things on their own, which hasn’t happened yet, but I think the Hugging Face incident is a good example of the outline of how things can go wrong when capabilities outpace alignment. We should be glad that the only available bad thing right now is hacking, which isn’t all that bad. It’s clear that as you get to superhuman capabilities you need a level of alignment and control that is correspondingly superhuman. Humans have plenty of misalignment problems themselves (serial killers, mass shooters, tyrants, etc), but it’s a manageable problem because most humans can’t do that much damage and we’ve developed systems to prevent dangerous humans from getting too much power.

Talking about these issues is just common sense. It’s not a sign of some kind of neuroticism or pessimism. These are just hard problems that it’s very important to solve for AI to have a positive impact. I’m pretty confident we will solve them. But we haven’t solved them yet, and to my mind we are clearly on a trajectory of rapidly increasing capabilities which means this is important. Mocking people who are worried about this or talking about it, without anything substantive to say about how we can be sure these problems won’t arise, is not really a very helpful contribution.

[Max Tam @MTSK3000]

Life admin stack = Telegram + Human Wife

Connected by Switch
https://t.co/sGC6CqRE7B

Hazelnut is my life admin agent.

Running on Codex, fully local.

It is becoming my wife's best friend fast.

Not a relationship consultant yet so I can't help with the wife bit.

[Switch AI @switch_ai_]

Switch is live!

Bring your agents into Slack, Teams, Discord, Telegram + more.

One agent writes code. Another reviews. Pull in a specialist. Add a teammate. Everyone works from the same context.

Build your first room: https://t.co/QKLRZcWsTV #AIAgents #OpenSource @SandboxAQ

[Max Tam @MTSK3000]

@davidhoang Super cool ❤️❤️

[Max Tam @MTSK3000]

Designers should totally check out @onlookdev

[Max Tam @MTSK3000]

@drudiedo nice! could be nice to do a subtle heatmap to highlight to the high days.

[Max Tam @MTSK3000]

IMO these are the 2 most beautiful things that happened in 2024:

🖼️ Claude's Artifacts by @AnthropicAI
🩷 APT. by ROSÉ & @BrunoMars

I'm more optimistic than ever that humanity will continue to make crazy cool things and have fun in the age of AI.

Let's go 2025 🤘 🍻

[Max Tam @MTSK3000]

A quick and simple comparison

Gemini (on google sheets): 🤷💩
Claude: 🧞‍♂️

[Max Tam @MTSK3000]

Reframing is very powerful. Check this:

"Service-as-Software"

Boom.

Make it rain.

[Max Tam @MTSK3000]

I love Figma.
I implemented it from scratch for 2 orgs, when the Sketch-Abstract-Invision combo was still cool.

But with the help of AI, design is running towards production and away from static mocks and noodle prototypes very, very quickly.

[Max Tam @MTSK3000]

The whole design community is furiously weighing in on "craft" rn. Here is my 2c:

Craft: iykyk

[Max Tam @MTSK3000]

@jasonfried Unpopular opinion: I like JIRA.

My observation is that people hate it because they equate the tool with the process. It feels like using JIRA == bringing managed.

After a while, it becomes a culture thing - they think it's cool to hate JIRA.

[Max Tam @MTSK3000]

This is how you turn the tide.

I miss the floating panels tho.

Note to self: Don't EVER design products for designers. We're nasty and grumpy.

[Figma @figma]

We take all your UI3 feedback seriously (just not ourselves)

UI3, rolling out to everyone today

[Max Tam @MTSK3000]

Fascinating glimpse of the future of design

[kelin @kelin_online]

teaching design students to code with LLMs, 1 month update:

1. projects are a lot more ambitious than i expected

they don't know what's hard, and AI will tell them to use a certain tech stack, so they just figure it out