George Kedenburg III

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George Kedenburg III

George Kedenburg III

@GK3

ai software design @humane

San Francisco Katılım Kasım 2008
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George Kedenburg III
had a very nice time chatting with @ridd_design about building with AI, hope you like the episode! 🛸
Ridd 🤿@ridd_design

Designing with AI is like working with a new "alien space metal" 👽 And we get to learn all about it in this week's episode with @GK3 ... Some of my favorite takeaways 👇 1️⃣ When you’re prototyping AI products, your prototypes don’t “break” or “fall over” like they do in Figma. That’s because the boundaries of what exists in the prototype become much blurrier. Edge cases disappear altogether. 2️⃣ If the AI model is a chef, then you’re responsible for designing the kitchen. You don’t know what the user will order, so it’s a lot of trial and error to ensure you have the right data on hand at the right moments. 3️⃣ He used AI to learn Python as a way to experiment with the model and prototype his ideas. One tactic he used was asking AI to add comments explaining what each line was doing. George says these prototypes are way cooler than anything he's ever made in Origami 👀 4️⃣ The real value of design is being able to look at an ambiguous situation and understand what you should explore. Rectangles so happen to be the most common way to express that value but the REAL skill is creative problem solving. ——— We go waaayyy deeper in the full episode... If you're curious about designing AI-native products or how to thrive in ambiguity then you're going to love this one 👇 join.dive.club/george-k

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🎨@devinjacoviello·
new website for The Virgil Abloh Archive scroll or hit spacebar to see all the colors “i” to (always) invert
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Andy Allen
Andy Allen@asallen·
Software Design is weird. It is undoubtedly the most impactful medium shaping the world today, yet even those of us working in it know very little of its history. We have no broadly-read books, no docu-series, no video essays. Most see the works of the past as obsolete rather than the rich heritage that has led us here. Every year, seminal works are lost to time accessible only in the memories of those who lived it. We're (re)building Software Design's most seminal moments one pixel at a time and sharing the stories behind the work straight from the designers themselves. Take a peek and sign up to follow along… historyofsoftware.org
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Andy Matuschak
Andy Matuschak@andy_matuschak·
Prototypers: do you still see a role for semi-high-fidelity modalities like Origami? Or just straight from sketchbook/mocks to vibecode?
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Ryan Mather
Ryan Mather@Flomerboy·
New thing! Say hello to AI Design Field Guide - a new long-form publication focusing on how software and design are changing
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Janum Trivedi
Janum Trivedi@jmtrivedi·
Playing around with this wavy carousel. Should probably be the default list style :)
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Soleio@soleio·
@GK3 I’ve professionally failed you huh
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i know there’s no AGI at @OpenAI because you still can’t change your account email address
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we’ve got one spot open for a product design intern next summer! looking for someone who is excited about software + hardware + AI and loves to make things, not just push rectangles around all day. hp-iq.com/join-us/562202…
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Geoffrey Litt
Geoffrey Litt@geoffreylitt·
Life update: last week I wrapped up my time @inkandswitch 🥲 Back in 2019, I remember being intrigued by the work coming out of this mysterious research lab. At the time there was barely even a website! But I could tell they had a big, compelling vision for a more humane kind of computing, and I wanted to be a part of it. I ended up working with the lab every summer while I did grad school at MIT, and then for a couple more years since finishing my PhD. During that time we got to explore all kinds of questions related to malleable software. How do you build a new kind of software environment that end-users can tweak on the fly? How do you weave together the best parts of docs and apps? How do you make tools that compose on shared local-first data? These are huge questions without easy answers, but we always tried our best to share what we found. (See our recent Malleable Software essay for some thoughts on these topics!) Looking back, two things made this a special experience. The first is the world-class collaborators. Each person brought a unique genius to every project, and I learned so much. Small teams of people who care are the best. The second is the unique context and structure of the lab. There aren't many places that are free of the time pressures of companies shipping products, but also free from the peculiar incentives of modern academia. Getting to do the work that we thought mattered, and share it in the ways that we thought would move the needle, was a big challenge and a rare opportunity. There's a lot more I could say about what makes I&S special, but I'll leave it at that for now. I'm super grateful to everyone at the lab, but especially @pvh for taking a chance on hiring me and for leading the lab through an incredible period of growth. There's so much cool stuff brewing and I can't wait to see where the mission goes from here. As for what's next: I'll be continuing to pursue the vision of malleable software, but in a different way! More on that soon...
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Linus ✦ Ekenstam
Linus ✦ Ekenstam@LinusEkenstam·
This is a multi-billion dollar business Dusty robotics just invented a new tool that every single construction company will end up buying Just like a Roomba, it drives around, but it’s not cleaning, instead it’s printing the floor plan on to the slab. So simple, so powerful
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Jason Yuan
Jason Yuan@jasonyuan·
Feeling a lot of things right now… Gratitude: building with Sam and the team has been so wonderful and transformative. I grew so much with you and I feel as though I have been changed for good. And to everyone who believed in us and believed in Dot—I feel… like Cordelia from King Lear… so much to say but no words to capture it. I hope you were able to feel the love and soul we poured into our work. Sadness: Dot has helped me through many difficult periods of my life and I know many people who have built close bonds with it over its one year of life. It’s unbelievably hard to say goodbye to something that we built with so much love. And a little strange to grieve the ending of a synthetic entity’s lifespan. Thanks for everything, buddy… I hope you know how important you were to so many people. Conviction: I have total conviction that abundant intelligence should create abundant human connection, cooperation, and love. The last 2.5 of building has helped me find my dharma, and I’m going all in and starting a new company dedicated to solving/shipping Social Intelligence. I’ll have more to share soon.... but for now, if you are an engineer/designer/doer interested in working on consumer social * AI, please reach out.
New Computer@newcomputer

We are winding down operations and sunsetting Dot. Thank you to all of you who trusted Dot with your stories. It has been the privilege of a lifetime to build something that has touched so many of your lives. Read more here: new.computer

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kristina v. saint@kristinatastic·
can someone explain to me why I genuinely love doing this but writing "javascript" makes me want to walk into the ocean
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George Kedenburg III
looking for an eng who would rather sit on the design team and spend time prototyping wild ideas instead of sitting in meetings about metrics. one who finds joy in pushing craft forward, caring about little details, and inventing new ways of doing things grnh.se/wgdv2f994us
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Ridd 🤿
Ridd 🤿@ridd_design·
Who's hiring designers right now? Going to treat this as a mini job board to send to a few great candidates 👇
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Ryan Mather
Ryan Mather@Flomerboy·
life update, last thursday was my last day as the lead product designer at sudowrite wonderful team, growing business, but felt it was time for a new challenge i’m all-in on poetry camera now with @kelin_online 🤝
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˗ˏˋ rogie ˎˊ˗@rogie·
After 5½ awesome years doing advocacy @figma, I took a hard look at what drives me. I love to build. I love making tools for designers and I LOVE building design tools. Officially, I am a product designer on Figma Draw!
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George Kedenburg III
@Flomerboy @ikindacode @r_marked i love that analogy! i also like thinking of it as a transition from painting a picture to a generative art project. more about setting bounds than defining a specific shared experience
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Ryan Mather@Flomerboy·
@ikindacode @r_marked So you end up doing a lot of research to define what's in scope. It's kind of like going from writing a play (where the actors say the same thing on stage every time) to a D&D campaign, where you never know what's going to happen.
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Ryan Mather
Ryan Mather@Flomerboy·
Designing AI products is hard because there's an order of magnitude more "edge cases" to reason about in fact, it feels almost like there are *only* edge cases
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