Yet another weekend play:
Tarkan: An image generator of your own, with precise image generation using your Nano Banana account.
Ultra fast(because backend is @convex ) and a total joy to use. Built this in 6 hours w @claudeai & @convex
Oh and it's open source. Steal it! https://t.co/fVji71SOWo
- Dashboard design: Dead -> AI does it now
- Landing site design: Dead -> AI does it now
So what's not dead?
Creativity and vision: You're still the designer, either building blocks of layers in Figma and/or prompt your way thru AI.
Design is a skill, not a mathematical task
Anthropic has a problem:
- The Claude app is the world's worst UX/UI for working w AI
- Claude only lets you use your Claude Code subscription properly on Claude app only
Conclusion: Claude is unusable. They need a designer. A real one.
Design@X feels 2018 to me now.
I design only in Cursor lately, and do animations w Remotion via prompts, not AE.
I'd highly recommend any designer to embrace AI to be 2026 ready—find jobs, showcase AI driven portfolio. Because you have to be.
@waynesutton@convex btw I completely agree on "who the F ever booked anything with AI". I also don't get why folks keep pushing that junk.
In here, our local "craiglist" now has AI. Asks me what ride I'm looking for. And it's so bad I can find the vehicle I want 10x faster than asking AI.
Recent observation with the companies/startups I've noticed:
- Marketing teams no longer seek a designer involvement for tasks like decks, presentations or data visualization. AI makes it for them, and it's good enough for them
- Most people just ask AI to design/build landings for them, and it's good enough for them.
Which makes real designers more valuable, for things AI just slops generic crap, or when "it's not good enough".
A little rant on CloudFlare's EmDash vs what I've been able to pull off on 3 weekends with @convex
TLDR:
It's 2026. If you're a billion dollar company and going to open source against another open source that's 40% of the internet, work a bit, yeah?
@rudrastyh@SethRubenstein Sorry if it did look like that! My X past is hundreds of tweets related to how WP will eventually miss the train and we should be doing something about