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Chris Jones
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Chris Jones
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Full-time dad, app developer, and designer @hightouchdata
Colorado Katılım Mart 2009
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Today is a hard day. I shared this note with the @linear team today: We’ve made the difficult decision to increase our workforce. This is not a cost-cutting exercise or a reflection of anyone’s performance. We’re simply reimagining every role for the agentic AI era. We’re hiring. We’re sorry about that.
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Give me the best design advice you've ever received.
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@zachpogrob Someone on here said it was built for people that color-coded their notes in school. Too true.
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1. Why is everyone freaking obsessed with the death AI will bring? It's so stupidly...boring. Creativity is born from life, and not death.
2. As designers find their confidence to ship, I'd say bring it on the doom and gloom. Watch us thrive in this new world.
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Gokul Rajaram@gokulr
DESIGN: THE FIRST AI CASUALTY I'm increasingly sure that 2026 signals the end of product design as a full-fledged stand-alone function within companies. If so, it will be the first role / function to be eliminated by AI on a go-forward basis. Instead of hiring FT designers, startups are hiring / will hire design consultants to create a design system that the founder likes (this takes a few weeks max). Once the design system is finalized, PM/Eng feed it into their AI tool of choice to generate prototypes. The design system is refreshed annually by the same consultant. Larger companies will likely not backfill design roles and will do some targeted attrition to reduce the design department to 20% the size it is today. If you're a designer, I think you have two choices: 1. Become an entrepreneur: Start a design agency and become the go-to resource for design systems for startups and even larger companies. This can be a good recurring revenue business. 2. Become a builder: Add PM/Eng responsibilities to become a product builder. Would suggest you embrace this proactively vs waiting for the other shoe to drop. I'm really sorry about this - some of my best friends and the people I admire most and have learnt the most from are designers - but it seems inevitable.
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@gerstenzang Definitely not great for retail investors. I finally moved on
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Here's my best argument:
1) Airbnb was overvalued by the public market when it went public; this graph reflects real business progress + a more reasonable valuation
2) Airbnb has had to fight against tremendous headwinds in the regulatory environment
3) Airbnb has taken great shots on goals for new business lines but none have quite landed yet - a ton of possibility in adjacent services about to explode.
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@joshpuckett I can add more value at the final stages of building than ever before. Partnering with eng, shipping layers of refinement that previously would be scoped out. It’s really fun.
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I think this is worth some nuance.
In recent history, many companies have employed 'product designers' whose primary activity and output has been the creation of software interface facsimiles, e.g. mockups in a drawing tool like Figma.
Those making mockups have of course been doing more than just that, to varying extents leading or more commonly participating in the process of deciding what to build and why. But there was value in that tangible output itself.
I think @gokulr is directionally correct that the role of someone whose primary output is the creating of an interface mockup is quickly disappearing.
But the role of someone who figures out what needs to exist, why, how it should work, how it should should be positioned, differentiated and made memorable has never been more in demand.
I speak with founders on a near weekly basis (many of them in Gokul's own portfolio) desperate for this kind of person.
His conclusions though I agree with almost entirely:
there will always be an opportunity to specialize in the creation of visual interfaces, but more broadly most product designers who want to be employees (totally fine) should take on more responsibilities that have historically been done by PMs or Engineers, to varying degrees.
From my POV, this is just what a product designer is and what we should have been doing the whole time, but that's another post.
Gokul Rajaram@gokulr
DESIGN: THE FIRST AI CASUALTY I'm increasingly sure that 2026 signals the end of product design as a full-fledged stand-alone function within companies. If so, it will be the first role / function to be eliminated by AI on a go-forward basis. Instead of hiring FT designers, startups are hiring / will hire design consultants to create a design system that the founder likes (this takes a few weeks max). Once the design system is finalized, PM/Eng feed it into their AI tool of choice to generate prototypes. The design system is refreshed annually by the same consultant. Larger companies will likely not backfill design roles and will do some targeted attrition to reduce the design department to 20% the size it is today. If you're a designer, I think you have two choices: 1. Become an entrepreneur: Start a design agency and become the go-to resource for design systems for startups and even larger companies. This can be a good recurring revenue business. 2. Become a builder: Add PM/Eng responsibilities to become a product builder. Would suggest you embrace this proactively vs waiting for the other shoe to drop. I'm really sorry about this - some of my best friends and the people I admire most and have learnt the most from are designers - but it seems inevitable.
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Yo Designgineers™ need your advice/process.
I love @Lovable and can make really high fidelity prototypes, then pass off the code to Eng to make it real.
What is your process? I have tried Claude Code but feel like I can't get it to make things as beautiful as Lovable.
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Okay Twitter... If Peter Thiel and Alex Karp started a band, what would it be called?
Name of this duo...
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Product Design teams.
How are you prototyping?
Prototyping and building within your production repo? Prototyping in seperate prototyping repos and sharing with your partners?
Both have merit and I am curious how you are focusing your investments. 1 or the other? Both?
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Buys flip phone for 12 year old.
Just calls and text he thinks.
Unbox.
Phone has YouTube, and Facebook 💀
Can’t uninstall.
WTF.
Asks Claude for help. “My phone sucks, need to jailbreak.”
1 hour later, custom python script done.
Phone fixed.
Kid happy.
Incredible.
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Chris Jones retweetledi
From a team of 4 and ~$40K ARR to now ~400 and $100M ARR, it's been remarkable to watch @tejasmanohar @kashgupta_ & @joshwget build @HightouchData. The definition of grit, creativity and maniacal execution. Congrats on the milestone team!
techcrunch.com/2026/04/15/hig…
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Congrats @HightouchData team for the successful entry into the AI marketing space. Excellent example of how to build a compound startup starting with a single product. 🚀
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Anthropic just leaked a new Claude app design, and it’s crazy good
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Eventually every designer ends up with a text-only portfolio.
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To be fair brett you kinda ripped the cofounder site with this one
Brett@BrettFromDJ
“How did you make this beautiful image?” “Midjourney.” No you didn’t. You took it from me, moron. Straight up taking credit for someone else’s work has somehow become normalized. Just look at the comments.
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is anybody worried about the irs using claude? seems inevitable
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