Tylr

currently staff design engineer @reddit, also working on dit, previously led ai design tools @meta | my views are my own

[Tylr @tylr_r]

@chocobo2837 @ansonlin You must not know many designers then

[Frank ☼ Bach @zendadddy]

companies with take-home design exercises are missing out on top talent (and frankly wasting their time)

the best designers aren’t desperate and won’t spend a weekend working on your feature request

more junior-mid folks might, but the quality won’t be there

- portfolio review
- xfn interview
- maybe a design jam

3h total. should be all you need.

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@daboigbae @Polymarket They aren’t underpaid but even many of the employees there don’t know they don’t need more snacks or more money to make them happier, they need trust, safety and the old fun spirit it used to have

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@G_Dvictor @realKonark @OpenAI If it’s a win/win for a company and their users then that’s the best way to gain users

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@DirtyTesLa @OpenAI Honestly a 30 day limit is generous imo, why complain about it? Just being able to pick when in a single week is really nice

[Shirin Ghaffary @shiringhaffary]

NEW: Airbnb CEO Brian Chesky is starting a new AI lab. Company is in its early phases, and considering a focus on design and UI. Chesky will remain CEO of Airbnb. Per sources.

w/ @EdLudlow @natlungfy
https://t.co/5HWSJEuJOq

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@theo @steipete Its a good time to be in Seattle 🌞

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@zendadddy @EndorsiVal Frank, i agree, asha is amazingly talented and one of the nicest people to work with. We used to be on the same team at fb and mentored her in origami, sad to see her misjudged like this.

[Adil Mania. @adilmania]

anyone can cook. few are chefs.
anyone can build. few are designers.

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@TheCinesthetic Wilson Fisk

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I can't tell if it's just me hearing the LLMs in people or if its just people adjusting their dialects to their peers (LLMs) but definitely been thinking the same

[gaut @0xgaut]

I swear some people are starting to talk like LLMs in real life

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@kouhxp @steipete

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@anamhira This has always been one of the biggest asks from designers at Meta. Of course, it doesn’t help when there are so many different possible experiences depending on the test you’re in. This definitely fills a void.

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This will be me with the quants momentarily

[Spenc61 @baguley61]

@deepseek_ai Users trying to fit it locally. lol

[Rasmus Andersson @rsms]

This is really neat but it’s not a design tool as much as it’s a design _production_ tool.

The practice of design is mostly about what comes before production.

There’s no doubt in my mind that all parts of software production will become automated very soon. Writing code, making web pages, putting pieces of a design system together etc.

And that’s fine. I think few people actually enjoy this kind of production work. Wouldn’t it be better if we spent our precious time in life on what is more meaningful?!

At the core, the practice of design is methodical; like architecture, not like art. In a nutshell: We find constraints, form comprehension of the whole and propose solutions that honor those constraints. First after that do we enter some form of production phase, usually prototypes first, learn about some constraints that were hidden before, loop back, prototype and then build the production-grade “final” artifact.

These last few tasks are quickly losing value because AI tools can do it much faster (not yet better though) than humans. It’s simply just what has the best RoI for a business.

Some companies and individuals will continue to spend human time on certain parts of the “production line” as a market differentiator, but it will cost them a relatively high price compared to competitors.

Anyhow, I still haven’t seen a tool better than Figma that supports the actually-interesting part of the design process.

I wouldn’t be surprised if Figma focused their products on that, maybe separating “products for production” of “products for ideation & exploration.” The latter would obviously still leverage AI, but not to do the work for me but rather to support my efforts the way a therapist helps me live a better life (not living my life for me.)

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@PepperoniKVS @pardheevvv @claudeai Sure you can produce a bunch of junk at a higher rate than something of good design but that doesn’t mean it’s effective. Mass production of something doesn’t mean it’s better. Literally Mac vs PC logic

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@PepperoniKVS @pardheevvv @claudeai If you’ve worked in the field of design you would know that people have always said this. Anyone could buy Photoshop when it came out and people said the same thing and yes there are a ton of ugly ps out there but that’s not replace real designers where it matters

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@pardheevvv @claudeai This is entirely good for designers not replacing them lol. They have yet to ship the “Taste” feature lol

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@nlaferle @bcherny Have you reconfigured your Claude.md prompt for 4.7?

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@davidfelsmann @osttoo @steipete I agree, Gemini has been the best model since day 1 for everything except coding projects which i don’t use openclaw for anyways