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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.




There's a new heat pump in town with *no outdoor unit*: The Merino Mono Retails for $3,800 including installation. Mounts to the wall with two small holes to exchange heat w/ outside. Just in SF and LA for now. Founding team is Ex-Quilt, Ex-Gradient. heatmap.news/sustainability…



I asked gemini to give my basement a glow up and then went out and bought all the actual furniture. First is the nano banana mockup; second is the actual room as it looks today; third is the original photo of the room that nano banana was working off of.


This is from a Jackie Fielder Instagram story that ran at around 3 a.m. on the day she had “turmoil in her office” and checked herself into the hospital.



A small thank you to everyone using Claude: We’re doubling usage outside our peak hours for the next two weeks.

San Francisco, Oakland and San Jose have NEVER seen a 90° day in the month of March. Next week we could have several days of 90°+. This will be an unprecedented March heat wave beginning Monday. For context, temperature records in SF go back to 1874.

glasssy styled navigation bar code is here: codepen.io/LeonLinBuild/p…


I’m searching for a truly excellent burger in SF. has anyone had one? (criteria: not fast food. also I’ve had the one at nopa and like it)




this might actually be the craziest thing i've ever read. you ever wonder why CA keeps having to fend off retarded propositions that would fuck up the state's economy for no appreciable reason? @slatestarcodex on "ballot blackmail"











