Sam Zoloth

figma has the distribution of teams and the UX of pre salesforce slack

claude after deleting my entire repo

@andyreed the obsidian dev with the notion profile pic is gonna put a hit on you

just saw an obsidian user fall to their knees in the middle of salesforce park

@ClaudeDevs @vercel_dev @andyreed 👀

May 13 — @vercel_dev builder night. AI Gateway routes to any model, including Claude. Build, demo, and audience votes on the best build. luma.com/ttrgmjaf

We're co-hosting a couple of hackathons in San Francisco next week. Come build with Claude 👇

@nbaschez hi

Do you spend a lot of time reviewing markdown docs written by AI? Wish it were a better experience? Say hi if you wanna try a new (free, open source) thing

@shiri_shh that being said, figmas an amazing company with an amazing team big time rooting for them and would not count them out

@shiri_shh strategy tax

It's a Harvard Case study waiting to be written. they'll teach figma in b-schools the same way they teach Blackberry

@rsms I think it still sorta conflates tool use with design, in the same way that his example somewhat conflates good writing with good penmanship. we are getting more tools that let you explore more sources of inspiration and manipulate it in new ways - should be exciting!

@SamZoloth Karri’s reply is 🎯

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.)

@karrisaarinen of course - not every time you use a tool claude design are you actually doing this. its a tool and it matters how you use it, like any other

@karrisaarinen yeah copying manually definitely helps you learn the tool you use to copy with, but that also conflates design with tool use...what im referring to is closing the gap between "this looks cool to me" and "I can manipulate this" (ie training your eye or "taste")

Our industry keeps confusing the appearance of design with design that actually works well

@rsms have you had a chance to try using it for your use case at all? or seen these vids from @nateparrott with great examples of how it enables the messy exploration steps -- x.com/nateparrott/st…

@joshpuckett @rsms @tldraw have you tried doing what you do in figjam/tldraw w/ the whiteboard in the claude ai design tool?

i still yearn for a proper product design tool. FigJam / @tldraw by far the closest.

@pdotcv Nah you can absolutely prompt around this.

The problem for me, right now, with the prompt and tweak model is it reminds me of designing in photoshop. It leads you down a narrow path of decisions. Yes, you could save versions and go back, but you didn’t really. What Figma brought was an infinite(ish) low latency canvas…

@businessbarista @petergyang @AnthropicAI claude.ai/design

@petergyang @AnthropicAI what made the video?

Made this 30 second video of Claude Design just by pasting in the Claude Design blog post and some tweets from @AnthropicAI employees Kinda speechless.

@trq212 @amorriscode i cannot wait for influencers to tell me what everyone’s missing or what’s lede is buried from this article

@_julianschiavo @OpenAIDevs @OpenAI plz share a case study

I reverse-engineered the iPad pointer w/ Codex! As far as I know, no one's gotten this working before outside the simulator app. The real pointer code requires a private entitlement, so we re-wrote the pointer capture code from scratch with a `CGEventTap` to send HID events:

@MaximeHeckel absolutely gorgeous

outline for my upcoming, and very much on theme, article on atmospheric scattering felt inspired and made posters with photos of actual renders made with the techniques you’ll learn in it :) very excited for this one

@karrisaarinen @GregKonush if you have your company oriented around the growth and development of agents, is this actually something you don’t believe? (I know future agents can’t bandaid clutter, talking specifically about maintenance)

@GregKonush "future agents will fix it"