Maximillian Piras

ICYMI, here's a writeup (I haz blog now) of my demo: an attempt to augment my design process with tirelessness & parallelism by leveraging multiple AI coding agents in Git worktrees 😵‍💫 maximin.design/blog/designing…

to: every single dev that works with a designer msg: Give your designer access to your coding agent. It is imperative that you do so. You'll see the most productivity and beauty in your work in a month. And then you'll realize just how much -you- were holding them back this entire time.

Scouts for iOS is live on Product Hunt! If you're active on PH, we'd love to hear what you think. producthunt.com/products/scout…

@zendadddy I feel designers have always been into personal projects & side quests... we musta been in diff circles.

designers used to get shunned for personal projects, side-quests etc. give yourself 100% to the company and don't think outside. now with AI, those who kept making things on the side (the curious ones, tool nerds, obsessive ones) are about to THRIVE. everything’s open now. it's all possible, what are you going to build?

@charliedeets @diabrowser Artifact loader goes crazy hard 🥵

Last week, we shipped a new @diabrowser update to friends and family. This update is a step change in functionality for Dia and we couldn’t be more excited to see what you make. You can join the beta today by entering ‘deetsman315’ into a new tab.

@julianlehr Funny you mention this, I’m currently writing up something in an attempt to explain why.

A hill I'll die on: Current LLM chat interfaces are a regression from GUIs. Actions that used to be links, buttons, or keyboard shortcuts are now things I have to spell out in conversation. Why?

What long running agents, quietly working for you in the background looks like. This Scout has been running since Jan 22nd. Said nothing while it had nothing to report, and then emerged today to share an update.

@Aquahugs gets you to the wrong answer quicker so you can turn around!

does speed even matter when you're heading fast into the wrong direction?

Giving a revised version of The Bitter Layout talk tomorrow, here is what 6 months of progress looks like in AI UI 💁

Great thoughts — last part made me think of Geoff McFetridge's My Head Disappears When My Hands Are Thinking (championdontstop.com/site3/shows/He…)

@eikedrescher @Scobleizer @spielwerkapp Love this UI!

Today we’re introducing Cheats in @Spielwerkapp Prompting has failed us. Most people don’t know what to type. AI unlocked a ton of skills for experts, but the rest of us kinda need a… cheat. Sound on!

we need a better word than vibe coding man, Claude can create the most beautiful things

It’s better to ask for forgiveness than to not --dangerously-skip-permissions.

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Florida Man continues to operate at the edge of civilization (for better or worse).

The most potent mind-altering substance that we have discovered thus far is still: trying to figure something out then going on a walk to think about it — helluva drug.

I was an early designer on Google Maps. I still use it everyday. The Maps AI update is awesome b/c natural language has the potential to solve Maps' oldest limitations. And not so awesome b/c "Ask Maps" feels tacked on instead of deeply integrating AI into Maps. Here's why: — Google Maps was built around discrete searches. This works well for simple tasks like Where is… or How do I get to… "548 Market St." But many real-world navigation challenges aren’t simple queries. They involve intention and tradeoffs. My actual thinking is something more like: "I need to get to 548 Market St and find parking nearby. I’m happy to walk a block or two if it saves $20, but these shoes will likely give me blisters if I have to walk too far." Historically, I had to translate that into Maps’ UI with a series of separate searches like: "548 Market St" then "Parking" But by the time I see parking places, 548 Market St has disappeared. So I have to scan the results and pop back and forth between searches to find a solution. Natural language has the power to fix this. AI gives users the power to describe what’s actually in their head instead of translating it into sequential queries for the Maps UI. How amazing would it be to tell Maps: "I’m on my way to Tahoe with my family. I want to stop at an In-N-Out near a freeway exit and a fast charger. But I want to stop later in the trip since I have plenty of charge and nobody’s hungry yet. What are my best options?" It’s exactly these kinds of tradeoffs (distance, timing, price, convenience, etc.) that AI should excel at handling. — But Google isn’t revolutionizing Maps with an all-powerful, natural language input box. Instead, it cleared some pixels to add an “Ask Maps” button that serves as a portal into Gemini. So now Google Maps has two search boxes: 1. Classic Search 2. Ask Maps AI This makes the UI more complex. And it misses the opportunity to deeply integrate AI into Google Maps so that it feels native. Why not start with one, AI-fueled omni-box that can handle both: “548 Market St” and "I am heading to 548 Market St and running late. I need a place to park and get into the building ASAP!" — The promise of AI is to make things simpler. Giving people the ability to express the nuance in our heads is a first step. Hopefully the next step is using AI to augment and improve Maps’ core tasks natively. And for the steps after that, I really hope the team is dreaming big! I would love to see some of the bolder integrations that I’m sure the team explored internally.

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Yutori at AGI House!

@tomjohndesign @v0 @iamsahaj_xyz Makes sense!

@M4XMXM @v0 @iamsahaj_xyz the main benefit is if you don't have the local repo already -- or don't want to go through the effort or tooling to get it stood up. good for repos you might not have, or for teammates who don't want to deal with working with a TUI or IDE.

if you're a designer, same questions. have you used @v0? If not, what tools are you reaching for? I will say, I still go back and forth between v0 and others for my own work, but there are some things that v0 handles that make the work incredibly faster. as @iamsahaj_xyz said, be brutally honest.