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Sam Duval
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Sam Duval
@_SamDuval
https://t.co/71JH3ElcHA - giving computers to AI agents
bay area Se unió Ekim 2025
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@FischerKing64 it's crazy how much effort people put into looking one way or another. while there is some aesthetic beauty inherent to certain looks, it generally is way better to love the shape one is and have full confidence in it, than to become some mismatched artificial redesign
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Men in particular should just let their hair go grey. Should stay trim and fit, healthy - but not pretend to be 35 when they’re 65.
Trying to erase visible divisions between generations must be one reason why all respect has fallen off.
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Last year, I met a person who has never written a single line of code in his life, yet he feels he can build anything he wants.
He told me point-blank:
"I challenge you to tell me something I can't build using AI."
I tried to explain, but I couldn't find the right words.
The most fascinating aspect of vibe-coding is how it has convinced so many people to believe they are better and more capable than they really are.
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@briannekimmel agreed, imo design works best when someone is empowered to lead and implement their vision
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Many problems companies face today are because they do not understand Design.
1. More designers doesn’t mean better design.
Design leaders aren’t headcount driven, quality of ideas & cohesion across the team = high output + great employee retention.
2. Designers committed to their craft won’t join a slop shop.
Every startup is hiring designers, but very few become a magnet for great design talent.
Slop is more than what you put on social, it’s your launch video, landing pages, sales emails, any design that’s gives a designer “the ick.”
3. PMs, especially growth PMs, value conversion rates above all else.
They believe they are good designers, yet they will use the same landing page or template for years. Design is an afterthought or worse
a bottleneck.
4. Companies converging on the same product (features + UI, even brand) shows a product-led, heavily VC-influenced company with either lack of Design leadership or reporting structure where Design has no power.
Design is grounded in principles and takes the most pride in original thought, they are allergic to copying others work.
Lenny Rachitsky@lennysan
I don’t know exactly what’s going on here, but it does feel AI-related. Unlike PM and eng, which started growing in 2024 (two years post-ChatGPT), design didn’t. If I had to venture a theory, I’d say that because AI is allowing engineers to move so quickly, there’s less opportunity—and less desire—to involve the traditional design process. That said, you’d think design would become a differentiator as more products compete for attention. Something to think about for your company! We’ll keep watching this trend and AI’s impact on org design more generally. One interesting observation we made when we went a level deeper: the ratio of demand for PMs vs. designers has flipped. In mid-2023, we went from more open designer roles to more open PM roles. And ever since, PM demand has been pulling away (currently 1.27x). This will be another trend to monitor, in terms of how AI is reshaping org design.
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yeah it is annoying and is a problem that just stateless convos avoided natively. one possible solution is that memory is more a tool than something pre-defined, so the model has to call it and probably has more common sense to not do that, whereas if it just throw into every request it will have all this clutter in the context
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One common issue with personalization in all LLMs is how distracting memory seems to be for the models. A single question from 2 months ago about some topic can keep coming up as some kind of a deep interest of mine with undue mentions in perpetuity. Some kind of trying too hard.
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“We’ve also been moving off legacy systems with poor, slow, outdated, and inconsistent APIs.”
If you’re building software that can’t work fully headlessly in a way that agents want to use, you’re not prepared for what the future of software is going to look like.
Agents will use software 100X more than people, and people will more and more interact with their data and workflows via agents across many different platforms.
This is the real risk but also opportunity for platforms right now. Software doesn’t go away, but it becomes the guardrails and business logic for what agents are able to operate on. But if you can’t connect to wherever the agents want to do that work, you’re DOA.
Guillermo Rauch@rauchg
Almost every SaaS app inside Vercel has now been replaced with a generated app or agent interface, deployed on Vercel. Support, sales, marketing, PM, HR, dataviz, even design and video workflows. It’s shocking. The SaaSpocalypse is both understated and overstated. Over because the key systems of record and storage are still there (Salesforce, Snowflake, etc.) Understated because the software we are generating is more beautiful, personalized, and crucially, fits our business problems better. We struggled for years to represent the health of a Vercel customer properly inside Salesforce. Too much data (trillions of consumption data points), the ontology of Vercel was a mismatch to the built-in assumptions, and the resulting UI was bizarre. We generated what we needed instead. When you don’t need a UI, you just ask an agent with natural language. We’ve also been moving off legacy systems with poor, slow, outdated, and inconsistent APIs, as well as just dropping abstraction down to more traditional databases. UI is a function 𝑓 of data (always has been), and that 𝑓 is increasingly becoming the LLM.
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@yacineMTB and understand the systems that run it, and understand the logic and physics of our nature, if you want to really build stuff that matters
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it’s kind of incredible that we spent the last two decades obsessing over skeuomorphism vs flat vs material & endless debates about affordances, cognitive load, fitts’s law etc basically optimizing software around human motor & perceptual limits…
only to realize those constraints don’t even apply to the actual future user of most software.
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Google Meet is an order of magnitude better than Zoom. It’s also free. I straight up don’t get why people use Zoom.
Thorsten Ball@thorstenball
Still can't believe I now actually really enjoy using Google Meet.
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language is ridiculous.
a typical sentence is ~20 words from a vocab of ~50k. that’s 50,000^20 possible sequences.
most of those sequences are pure garbage, but the ones that land restructure reality for the reader. & when it is finished the writer is almost always slightly surprised by what they meant.
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@wongmjane for a long time human + AI will probably be able to build things that neither can alone.
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What’s the point of building a product, funding a startup, doing anything, or even existing, if AI will eventually be capable of doing everything?
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Just crossed 50,000 followers.
17 years for 3K
9 months fo 50K
Grateful to every founder, builder, and lurker who’s been along for the ride.
If you’re building something ambitious … I’m still hunting for you.
Onward
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@IamMiaChase bunch of claude opus 4.6 agents doing vibe science.
they did not discover anything interesting :P
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@_SamDuval were all 50 agents actively making requests that whole 15 minutes, or were some mostly idle
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github.com/samuelahmed/op…
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Give it a spin and if it levels up your workflow give a star and share with your friends!
GIF
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