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A Designer. Principles: Slow Down, Give Gratitude, Take Responsibility 🌴🌴

[Somto @penytron]

Time to get serious...

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@nemibanigo He is!!

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Really want to sit and learn from the Shopify design team so bad about their in-house AI tools and how they use them

[Somto @penytron]

People are really building cool stuff

[Ole Lehmann @itsolelehmann]

this is just the most ridiculous AI application i've ever seen lol

a Peter Thiel-backed startup that makes AI collars for cows is now worth $2 billion

and the more I read about it the cooler it gets. here's how it works:

every cow wears a solar-powered collar that talks to a network of radio towers and an app on the farmer's phone

instead of building physical fences, the farmer draws the fence on a map in the app, and the collar keeps each cow inside that invisible line using GPS

when a cow drifts toward the edge, the collar plays a sound to steer her, and a gentle vibration tells her which way to go.

it's like how a car beeps as you back up toward a wall

the cows learn the cues in a few days

so now a rancher can move an entire herd to fresh grass by sliding the fence on a map, without driving out to open a single gate

and that same collar is reading each cow's body the whole time.

it takes five readings per second on every animal, so the AI can catch a cow that's sick, injured, ready to breed, or about to give birth before a person would ever notice walking the field

so it's basically like WHOOP for cows too lol

and they gave the AI behind it the perfect name: the Cowgorithm

it's been trained on more than 7 billion hours of real cow behavior, which is why Halter calls the data its real asset and moat.

they know what a normal cow looks like better than anyone, so they can flag the odd one out instantly

it's already on more than 1M cattle across New Zealand, Australia, and a bunch of US states.

California even used it on public land to graze cattle in patterns that clear dry brush and slow down wildfires

costs about $5 to $8 per cow per month

a job that used to mean barbed wire, gates, and driving the fields all day is now mostly 1 person on their phone

[Ben Blumenrose @benblumenrose]

The 2026 State of AI in Design Report answers the question of “what is happening” with AI + Design.

Soon we’ll begin releasing case studies from top teams that will better answer the question of “given this info, how do we now do our work??”

Get ready...

[jenny wen @jenny_wen]

a polished portfolio isn’t strictly positive signal, but a sloppy one is definitely negative signal.

[Ridd 🤿 @ridd_design]

feedback is the bottleneck for building with AI

@inflight fixes that

now designers can get structured feedback on their prototypes which loops back into Claude/Codex as next steps

how it works in ~60s 👇

[Somto @penytron]

Okay this way makes a lot of sense

[Kazden @kazdenc]

thoughts on slowing down to speed up with code prototyping…

> use voice to brain dump as much context as possible in the plan prompt
> review plan in detail, take turns to clarify or ask questions before agreeing
> when plan looks good - tell model to chunk into phases with specific QA verification as gating steps between each
> .. QA and verify things work, course correct between each phase
> do all of this in a vanilla library (swift, shadcn) so you focus on mechanics and utility at this stage
> when things work, get the model to refactor into modular components and read out the directory structure to you
> layer in visuals last - applying them precisely to the directory structure you just got familiar with

[Soleio @soleio]

The future belongs to designers who build.

Launch days are the best days. Savor today @gabrielvaldivia !

[LEYE @leyeConnect]

A lot of designers are too pigeon-holed in their 9-5, you need to experiment, CREATE time for self-initiated projects, this is probably the only way to stay relevant and materially advance your skill.

The monotony of your 9-5 is not helping your creativity especially if you already have a design system.

The only instance this advice doesn’t apply is if you are constantly dealing with new problems you need to translate to deisgn at work.

[Saganism @Saganismm]

“It will happen to all of us, that at some point you get tapped on the shoulder and told, not just that the party is over, but slightly worse: the party’s going on and you have to leave.”

— Christopher Hitchens

[Somto @penytron]

Bro!

My country…

[Somto @penytron]

I missed a few things in this city while I was away, but one thing I didn’t realize I was missing was the office coffee.

Took a sip, and it was immediately clear to me that I had missed it!

[Somto @penytron]

@Ebuka 😂😂😂😂

[Somto @penytron]

P3 lets go!!

[Formula 1 @F1]

It's Kimi Antonelli who will lead the field away! 👏

Here's how the drivers will line up for tomorrow's Chinese Grand Prix ⬇️

#F1 #ChineseGP

[Formula 1 @F1]

It's Kimi Antonelli who will lead the field away! 👏

Here's how the drivers will line up for tomorrow's Chinese Grand Prix ⬇️

#F1 #ChineseGP

[Genie @geniestudioapp]

AI images are everywhere. On brand ones aren't. Until now. Create stunning images, illustrations and animations that actually match your brand.

try now at https://t.co/nofrFS9Bo9 ✨

[Somto @penytron]

The hack is actually an early morning gym so you can Claude code the rest of the day

[Somto @penytron]

@adebimpe_ad Happy Birthday 🎉🎉