Nelson Taruc

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Nelson Taruc

Nelson Taruc

@ntfromchicago

Design Lead and Head of Marketing at Lextech. My design philosophy: Focus. Boost signal, kill noise. Solve the first problem. Embrace uncertainty.

This House/This Street/Chicago Katılım Nisan 2020
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Nelson Taruc
Nelson Taruc@ntfromchicago·
Don’t show me how you’re using AI. Show me what you shipped.
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aarushe
aarushe@aarushe_reddy·
insane time to build in tech: -option to build anything -vibe code experiments no one will ever use -go viral on the right TLs -get hired to build for millions of actual users unreal arc and probably the first time ever, when the product utility has no impact on its relevance
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Nelson Taruc@ntfromchicago·
@_nonfigurativ_ Whenever I see a design tool in the middle of an AI workflow, the analogy that pops in my head: Translating from Spanish to Chinese by translating Spanish to English to Chinese. Sure, it's great to know English. But did you really need it in the middle?
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Question: why would one need to vibecode a design file representing a web page when one could just vibecode the webpage?
Orin@orinfitzgerald

okay guys @framer + @claudeai is scaring me... 1. uploaded 92+ hours of tutorials to knowledge[.]md > it's a framer expert now 2. fed it high quality visual refs + extracted design taste > it's also a visual design expert now and rn, it just built me this website. wtf?

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Nelson Taruc
Nelson Taruc@ntfromchicago·
Apple App Store review times seem to be slipping back to the original iPhone era, when it took closer to a week than 2-3 days for review. Prediction: An App Review agent in Xcode that pre-reviews apps prior to submission.
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Nelson Taruc@ntfromchicago·
@AdiPolak @DamiDina When cost to build < cost to buy and bespoke customization > off the shelf inflexibility and fewer features > SaaS bloat
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Adi Polak
Adi Polak@AdiPolak·
I keep wondering how many teams are racing to build custom JIRA, custom Workday, and custom CRM replacements, only to eventually ask: “When did we become an internal software company?”
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ReleaseMyApp@ReleaseMyApp8·
@ntfromchicago @elonmusk @Grokipedia @xai that's a tough spot, apple's being strict on third party mentions in metadata. before resubmit, we actually built a tool that scans for these rejection triggers so you catch em early. what's your next move on the wording?
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Nelson Taruc
Nelson Taruc@ntfromchicago·
Hi @elonmusk! Apple rejected my iOS/Mac app that auto forwards wiki pages to @Grokipedia. Apple says I can't say Grokipedia in the app info (I don't imply any endorsement by @xai). Can you OK use of the word Grokipedia and my screen shot of the AI page? Happy to send more info.
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Nelson Taruc@ntfromchicago·
@DanGrover @DamiDina You fix this with a shared design component library that ships to prod, and a commitment from your dev team to never use prototype code in prod, but instead refer to the library for SoT design.
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Dan Grover@DanGrover·
Biggest gap I've seen with "prototypes as PRDs" idea in practice so far (vs figma mocks) is that I haven't seen any teammate make any entirely slopless prototype. If you are giving an artifact to engineers, it needs to be perfect, because things will only degrade from there.
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Nelson Taruc@ntfromchicago·
@ibuildthecloud @DamiDina LOL you’ll be using that web page, for what, 5 seconds max? You’ll be using that MBP for at least two years if not more. That said, if that web page stops you from buying, then sure, Apple needs to step up its “luxury” web site game 🙄.
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Darren Shepherd
Darren Shepherd@ibuildthecloud·
Can you believe this? This is a screen from Apple's website. It's like AI designed this. The soul of Apple is gone. This is not a luxury product.
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Nelson Taruc@ntfromchicago·
@DamiDina @justinskycak I actually don’t believe in tech debt. The reality? A team ships 💩 code that, amazingly, still works despite the 💩. Every time they ship after that, without fixing 💩? That’s the team’s CHOICE to re-ship 💩 code. That’s not debt. That’s the team’s standard for code quality.
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Justin Skycak
Justin Skycak@justinskycak·
Pure vibe coding is a Ponzi scheme. Eventually, the technical debt comes due, and if you don't understand the foundations, you can't pay it off.
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Nelson Taruc@ntfromchicago·
In my work, Claude feels like a full timer on staff, and Codex feels like a freelance programmer. They both get the job done buuut…
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Charles Haywood
Charles Haywood@TheWorthyHouse·
Total Haywood Victory! And I note that the comments on this year-old post echo those on my post yesterday on "AI." Luddite! You don't understand Vision Pro is the future! The desire for a substitute religion is strong.
Charles Haywood@TheWorthyHouse

This is all ludicrous cope, to obscure the fact that the Vision Pro does nothing special and will soon be forgotten as a failure, another example of decadence (that we cannot do anything new that is worth anything). "The world's largest calculator"?! Please.

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Nelson Taruc@ntfromchicago·
@shakoistsLog @DamiDina The days of large dev teams are over. I’m seeing lots of productivity leverage from 1-2 person teams. I think the new “large team” is closer to 10 than even 100 or 1,000, thanks to AI-assisted coding.
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shako
shako@shakoistsLog·
we spend a lot of time marveling at what one person can build now in a day that used to take a year. but only because we don't have a good sense yet of what 1000 people together can now build in a year that used to be impossible.
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Nelson Taruc@ntfromchicago·
This 💯!!! Code is code. Designers, you are prototyping design concepts or producing production design, but most important, you are problem solving with visual design. Designers (and everyone else), you are way more valuable to the product process than the word “vibe” suggests.
luis.@disco_lu

I'm begging designers to stop using the word "vibe" Code is code, and softening your impact with words will put you in the same "seat at the table" discussion we moved past a few years ago It also assumes that code written by hand before this moment was written well 🤪

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Adam Wathan
Adam Wathan@adamwathan·
I don’t think AI is lowering the barrier to entry as much as it is giving the very smartest people an even more enormous advantage.
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Nelson Taruc@ntfromchicago·
@felixleezd The gap will always exist because the definition of “great design” is subjective and changes over time. Training data will have to be opinionated and curated by humans, not amalgamated. Amalgamated data will worsen taste, because it’ll revert to the mean.
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Felix Lee
Felix Lee@felixleezd·
Unpopular opinion but, taste is not the moat in AI. Designers keep treating it like an irreplaceable skill. But taste is pattern recognition (“intuition”) of great work. The gap between “AI slop” and “great design” is closing every month. This is for what’s worth.
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Nelson Taruc@ntfromchicago·
@aleabitoreddit Is it irrational? GAAP net loss per share is 0.21. U is now same price level as 2024. Subpar management. What is the story that brings U back to $40?
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Serenity@aleabitoreddit·
I’m sorry but did $U just miss revenue guidance by -.8%… then drop 34%? It’s interesting to see markets irrationally panicking from AI if a company does software.
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Nelson Taruc@ntfromchicago·
@mikelikesdesign This is really cool! For usability, would it be better to make the actively selected option visible above the wheel, so your thumb doesn’t block the selected icon? Not a criticism of the implementation. Just a thought while watching the demo.
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Nelson Taruc@ntfromchicago·
@mschoening Creativity and taste are not moats. They're differentiators. ALL AI models have taste. But since most train on amalgamated vs. curated design, taste reverts to the mean. Infinite minds make taste worse! A selective, opinionated training set is the cure. Quality not quantity.
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Max Schoening
Max Schoening@mschoening·
I don’t understand why people say creativity and taste is now the moat. Yes, models don’t have taste. Although, who knows for how long. But, are you saying that you as a business are more creative and have more taste than any one individual armed with infinite engineering minds? Look at how creative and weird the OpenClaw community is. Good luck beating them over and over and over again. You need an architecture of participation. Invite the collective to build with you…
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