Nikola Mircic

Cross between business and design. I used to do product design, but now I am doing full products.

[Nikola Mircic @nikolamircic]

@channel5 Hi Edd, i've tried your KeywordsPeopleUse during free trial. I've tried to delete account but users can do it only via support email. Nobody is answering support emails. Is Keywordspeopleuse scam? Why is stripe keeping sending me subscription charges?

[Nikola Mircic @nikolamircic]

Hm, this might be the solution https://t.co/vP0XLkZ21K

[Nikola Mircic @nikolamircic]

The biggest issue with working with Claude Code is synchronization between sessions.

I am working in different session on different things: admin, backend, client apps, website copy and SEO, analytics... Like when working with the team of specialists.

Just that sessions do not have daily standup to sync.

I need to find the solutions, how to sync all that development. Comment if you have a suggestion.

[Alexander Whedon @alex_whedon]

Introducing SubQ - a major breakthrough in LLM intelligence.

It is the first model built on a fully sub-quadratic sparse-attention architecture (SSA),

And the first frontier model with a 12 million token context window which is:

- 52x faster than FlashAttention at 1MM tokens
- Less than 5% the cost of Opus

Transformer-based LLMs waste compute by processing every possible relationship between words (standard attention).

Only a small fraction actually matter.

@subquadratic finds and focuses only on the ones that do.

That's nearly 1,000x less compute and a new way for LLMs to scale.

[Nikola Mircic @nikolamircic]

Cloudflare + Stripe = AI can buy domain and deploy

Cloudflare and Stripe have launched a new protocol enabling AI agents to autonomously create Cloudflare accounts, purchase domains, and deploy applications on behalf of users, with Stripe handling identity, authorization, and payment limits.

https://t.co/SoDEOD06UI

[Nikola Mircic @nikolamircic]

My experience with Claude Design:
+ good at basic, template like design
+ excels at integrating third party live scripts in your design like galleries, forms, css eye candy, ...
+ first approach: detailed prompt of the design, then tweak things
+ second approach: a lot of small prompts, build section by section (works better!)
+ still modest manual options (style fonts and colors)
+ still buggy

Verdict:
I think both Figma and Claude Design will meet somewhere at the middle. Manual canvas tools + automated ai workflow.

[UI/UX Savior @UiSavior]

Claude can design 🔥

[Nikola Mircic @nikolamircic]

Now that coding is automated design part is slowing production. So...

Anthropic entered design turf with https://t.co/V59dQMry0N

It's still buggy, released 4 days ago. But I bet it will be polished in two weeks from now.

https://t.co/8XeXGCCFpL

[Nikola Mircic @nikolamircic]

I never had time to play with Google Analytics & Google Search Console. I am a designer.

But now thanks to my AI colleague (Claude Opus) I made an automated workflow.

1. Opus has access to my website files locally, it can change them and deploy
2. Opus has access to GA and GSC via MCP. It requires Google Cloud Subscription, but it's free for 2 months.
3. Opus has access to Chrome via MCP
4. I've created triggers for daily, weekly, monthly GA / GSC analysis of search keywords, traffic sources, key events, sales funnel and more

So it's a closed loop now.

AI can monitor analytics, react on unusual events and notify me.

It can figure out new search phrases that bring clicks/impressions and act autonomously by adding keywords in site copy, or writing entirely new blog posts.

And it can link and publish new pages. And test them in Chrome browser to make sure everything is okay.

Basically SEO analyst, copy writer and website developer positions automated. Not bad.

[Nikola Mircic @nikolamircic]

"Peter Steinberger (developer behind https://t.co/CE34YxPE0v) explained that AI agents still produce “slop” because they lack human taste and direction. While highly capable, they depend on iterative guidance—each prompt shaped by ongoing feedback and judgment. He warned that relying on a single upfront specification and stepping away too early breaks the human–AI loop, leading to mediocre, unfocused results despite strong underlying model capabilities"

In other words the same way you work with human developers you work with ai developers.

[Nikola Mircic @nikolamircic]

Designers started pouring design skills in md files. I've tried some of these skills, but still you need to do design yourself, skills are helping but not doing design work.

Anyway this video is a good review
https://t.co/E7tTJTJxBG

[Nikola Mircic @nikolamircic]

Design.md is a text describing design style, like

+ colors
+ typography
+ components (buttons, inputs, ...)
+ elevation
+ spacing
...

All these things we had before, in CSS (Cascading Style Sheet) file. Just that now we are writing it in plain English and AI is translating it to CSS.

https://t.co/wcHkhmZowv

[Nikola Mircic @nikolamircic]

Done in five days!

All 380 Java files are rewritten to React.

I was working with Claude Sonnet 4.6 model in the same way I used to work with any other developer:

1. I create a task for each feature (there are 43 features)
2. Sonnet does the task and verifies it in Chrome browser
3. Then I verify the feature and give feedback if needed

Sonnet was making mistakes and forgot to include some code, images, css, etc... but not much.
It was working on a level of a senior developer.

Typical coding prompt with auto testing in browser took from 5-20 minutes.

I was using Sonnet instead of Opus because it uses 4-6x less credits and I am on Claude Max $100 subscription plan. It was enough for daily work, but I was close to 5 hour limit.

[Nikola Mircic @nikolamircic]

Today I am doing code rewrite on https://t.co/fTU3HQCr0K CMS. CMS is old project of mine and it's written in Java (GWT), React and PHP. Claude Sonnet 4.6 is rewriting 300+ java files to React.

We are doing it feature by feature. Sonnet inspects java features, write react code, test feature in Chrome via Claude Chrome plugin, fix errors, then I test feature in Chrome and approve.

It will last a couple of days. I hope we make it.

BTW I just designed Sitecake, but Nikola Ivancevic and Predrag Leka developed everything.

[cogsec @affaan]

https://t.co/NscRA7sqBt

[Nikola Mircic @nikolamircic]

So far so good. I was able to rewrite scafolding, DnD reordering of items, adding elements like headings, text, video, map, html snippet, file upload, adding links and more.

[Nikola Mircic @nikolamircic]

Anthropic's Head of Design Jenny Wen (previous design director at Figma) said the same thing around design process.

Old design process is dead.

Developers can spin 7 Claude bots and ship, ship, ship. Design is too slow for this process.

Some designers are sticking for traditional discovery process, because are doing it whole life. But that will have to change.

Figma is still the tool to explore different design directions. Working with live prototypes is more linear process.

Releasing early, half baked, and upgrading based on user feedback is good.
Releasing early and never update is bad. :)

AI is great in development today. In future it will be as good in design too.
...

Great interview. Many more interesting things too.
https://t.co/Wzy9t3QDJc

[Nikola Mircic @nikolamircic]

Product design workflow is changing.

Workflow used to be: think, do sketch on a paper, draw wireframes, do a prototype, do UI design and then, only then hand over to development. Development used to be expensive and we had to do things like this to save development money.

Now, development is done by AI, and it's practically free. One can develop apps on $20 Claude Code subscription. So we can start development immediately. We can chisel out the David out of the marble block, like Michelangelo did.

I feed an app description to the thinking agent - Claude Opus, he makes a development plan. Then I switch to cheaper, coding agent - Claude Sonnet and it starts coding according to the plan. App is done in one hour. I test it, and submit changes. After 10-20 testing iterations, I have the desired app.