Gary Simon

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@designcoursecom How me how to build

I've been super focused on FusionCue (my pool projection/training app). Multiple beta testers, getting things worked out, excited to really start marketing this thing. Going all in on UGC in my studio on my pool channel to promote the hell out of it. Going to finally utilize this studio environment, get people in here playing pool, having money matches, people with character, etc.. The software will be $299 with an optional $19 monthly subscription for online features (of which there will be many, it's an entire social community with live multiplayer matches [soon] and broadcasting). I've built a mobile rig that I can take to tournaments and expos. SO CLOSE!!!!!

@DannPetty Nightmare shit right there. AI is goated though, especially for health stuff.

AI might have saved my right ball. Not a joke. Friday night it started hurting out of nowhere. Twenty minutes in I could barely walk. My plan was to load up on pain meds, lie down, and see if it passed. I asked Claude first. It said: this could be testicular torsion, there’s a 4 to 6 hour window before you lose it, go to the ER now. Don’t eat or drink in case they need to operate. Don’t drive yourself. I went. The first ER tried to untwist it and sent me home by midnight. At 3am I woke up in worse pain and went back. They tried again, then put me in an ambulance to the bigger hospital. We still don’t know for certain it was torsion. The first doctor untwisted it before an ultrasound could catch it. Three days in the hospital. I’m home now, healing, and keeping everything I walked in with. Sudden pain down there is an emergency, not a tough-it-out thing. Hours matter. The doctors told me most guys wait too long because they’re embarrassed. Don’t be that guy. The same AI I use every day to build brands and ship products told me the exact right thing at 10pm when I was about to sleep it off. My wife is a superhero. She got me there the first time, advocated for me for three days, caught a medication error, and ran our whole house solo while doing it. If it hurts, go. If it still hurts, go back.

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@designcoursecom @DaveShapi I’d love to see the prompt for this “adjustment” 😁

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@maxedapps Can't that be addressed via some sort of system prompt? At a certain point, finding issues for the sake of finding issues, results in issues that aren't issues worth addressing (whew)

Let me repeat: Agents will ALWAYS find more issues when you ask them for it. You can have them write the code and let different agents with fresh context review that same code and the "improved code" dozens of times => they will not stop finding issues. It's YOUR job to determine which issues really are issues. And which potential improvements you really want or need.

Anyone see this post? I thought they were removing communities long ago?

@DIYAdman Cool idea, terrible execution.

@designcoursecom custom prompt w/ gemini flash 3.5

No, Fable 5 is not better than GOOD logo designers. 👇Fable 5 logo design tested

@brandacooks I'm not overly impressed by these marks at all. Do one for a less abstract business concept. Try one for either Crux or the furniture shop one.

@designcoursecom Created this using branda.co in just a few minutes. All of this is explorable and exportable. AI is further than you think.

I told it to come up with 3 businesses on its own. Write a brief describing the businesses, and generate 3 logo design concepts in black and white. They should be relevant, unique, creative, and simple in design. Think FedEx logo. Given these constraints, most of what it produced was rather poor. If I gave it any more detail, I would have assumed too much creative control over the process as a designer. I wanted to keep it simple for that reason alone. And I guarantee you, if I had it analyze any of my upcoming SaaS's and it had the full picture of my business, the quality it spits out would be just the same as these.

@designcoursecom You put almost zero effort into your prompt. If what Gal said is correct, your client used far more of your company's context and other information to create the output.

@lobanovskiy Yes, there's a very real chance AI will improve considerably. But I'm being 100% honest about what I currently see. It's not there yet.

Thank for sharing those examples your thoughts Gary! I've been in this industry for 20+ years, designed hundreds of logos and worked with some pretty big brands. Honestly, I'm not laughing at these results... I'm actually kind of blown away. This feels exactly like the early image generation days. Sure, there were six fingers and weird faces, but you could already see where it was headed. I get the same feeling here. AI isn't even using purpose-built logo models yet, and it's improving insanely fast. To me, this isn't a "look how bad it is, robots will always need humans" moment. It's a "wow... we're watching the beginning of something huge" moment. This isn't just some sort of productivity booster. It's already becoming a real creative partner... aaaaand in some cases I'd say a real alternative. I'd rather figure out how to adapt than pretend it isn't coming.

Lol, wrong. I am not an AI hater by any stretch of the imagination. I'm one of the earliest adopters, go look at my videos. I get a ton of hate because I utilize AI in both design and code. Just keeping it real with the current state of AI. I'm not interested in "what if's", just what currently what *is*

@spectreman @designcoursecom I bet he said the same thing when people started designing things on the computer vs pencil and paper

@usohdegreat @GeminiApp White and black aren't hues

@designcoursecom @GeminiApp If you background has any color.. Sorry, Gary Including white and black hue?

Gemini home page is out here violating some very basic color contrast principles. If your background has any color, don't slap gray on top of it. Grab the background color and either make it lighter or darker for the foreground element. @GeminiApp

Stumbled across this post. I think it's perhaps the most important lesson to understand when you achieve success. "I made it", yes.. temporarily.

@remvze Nah, if I meant him, I would have said his name specifically. Gal, I believe, had ulterior motives. The most obvious is that he was already winding down.

> GOOD logo designers At this stage of grief, we're saying Gal isn't a good designer.

@PeteCapeCod I'd say current level of Fable 5 for logo design is intermediate level.

@designcoursecom I bet it's better than noobs with zero experience. I'd put $5 on PolyMarket on that lol easy money. But I love how people act like years of experience and learning are meaningless. Sure, if that makes you feel better about not doing the work, sure 👌🏼

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@mattjoslen Thanks. 1. Start posting regular content with the system in use on pocketpounders YouTube chan. 2. Take my mobile setup to tourneys/expos. 3. On board pros. Already going to have Rodney Morris.

@designcoursecom Nice! It's been cool watching this project unfold. You have any gtm plans?

43 today. Getting back home from vacation. Back to the grind this week! On an unrelated note, my AI can generate loads of drills for FusionCue. Working hard on getting this released!!