Joe McKenney

Heartbreaking, what an articulation @crowprose crowprose.com/blog/competenc…

@_sholtodouglas Thanks @_sholtodouglas!

@sama How timely! I just wrote an essay related to that feeling. crowprose.com/blog/competenc…

I am very excited about AI, but to go off-script for a minute: I built an app with Codex last week. It was very fun. Then I started asking it for ideas for new features and at least a couple of them were better than I was thinking of. I felt a little useless and it was sad.

wake 0.5.0 is out 🌄 Terminal context for Claude Code. Now with LLM-powered summarization and tiered data retrieval—Claude gets the right level of detail without drowning in output. `wake shell` → work → ask Claude → it already knows github.com/joemckenney/wa…

PTY capture + shell hooks + SQLite + MCP = Claude Code that can see your terminal history. Wrote up how wake works: crowprose.com/blog/wake/ @AnthropicAI

stop copy-pasting terminal output into Claude Code github.com/joemckenney/wa…

Annual rewatch of True Detective Season 1, the best show/season ever made. Time is a flat circle but at least Rust Cohle is there to guide me through it.

A recent realization: Meat Loaf appears in most of my favorite films

@karomancer Always. I do this then exhaust the song forever.

Does anyone else get into moods where they listen to the same song on repeat, almost non-stop for days? Just me? Ok then.

@karomancer Cut it all off. I just went from mid-back length to pretty short and it feels great.

My hair is the longest it's been in years. Is it time to try a new haircut?! I also haven't changed my hairstyle for maybe a decade...

5 months ago I broke down Figma's new AI onboarding. They're back with a new iteration! The most interesting part: 𝗔𝗜 𝗽𝗿𝗼𝗺𝗽𝘁𝘀 𝗮𝗿𝗲 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗻𝗲𝘄 𝘁𝗲𝗺𝗽𝗹𝗮𝘁𝗲𝘀. An updated breakdown 👇 In the last iteration, an AI input form was presented side-by-side with pre-built usecase templates. This makes sense, they both solve the cold start problem of helping users go from from 0 → .5 (they don't get users to 1 yet). I wondered if, in the future, AI entry points and templates would merge. With this new iteration, Figma has essentially made templates from pre-written, use case prompts! Templates are great at presenting use cases (push). Prompting is great at capturing intent (pull). This experience is starting to have the best of both worlds, where the entry point into prompting is structured and easy to understand, but I can still edit the prompt to fit my intent. I like this and I think it points to a strong vision for AI-generated getting-started experiences (rather than just throwing me into an input). Of course, templates still play a big role for Figma and Figma has a huge community with tons of helpful resources. But now AI has a much larger in-product entry point than templates. I could imagine other tools taking a similar approach!

@ImLunaHey Tablet

do you use a laptop or desktop for work?

@tannerlinsley @statelyai @ReactRally @tannerlinsley do you have @statelyai deployed in production? If so, what are you using it for?

Every time I open @statelyai, I am blown away by the experience. Not many extremely useful dev tools are also just pure fun to play with. Here's one I made @ReactRally last year about conference attendance! stately.ai/registry/edito…

Yea, code as a source of truth is just wrong in this case. As a dev, I get it. It's easier to reason about if everything lives in code...but that doesn't satisfy other non-technical players' needs. Take feature flags and experimentation platforms. The source of truth is in the platform, not code, so folks can not only observe but can contribute and take action. Onboarding is the same.

@crowprose @chronark @nolte_adam @statelyai @doptcom I absolutely agree with you... Except that you can have the best of both worlds 😉 Code as source of truth + easy way for non-technical stakeholders to visualize and collaborate on flow

@nolte_adam @chronark @statelyai @doptcom Dopt is great but I strongly believe that your onboarding flow code should exist *completely* in your codebase

@chronark @DavidKPiano @nolte_adam @statelyai @doptcom Code should access the journey and signal the user is advancing through it. This is a good separation of concerns IMO.

@DavidKPiano @nolte_adam @statelyai @doptcom I think I agree

@gabrielvaldivia Skip SF and head to Oakland. I'll take you out for a great drink and/or dinner.

Heading to SF to spend the week with some folks from OpenAI. What are your favorite spots that would make someone that hates the city fall in love with it? Asking for a friend…

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