Rasagy Sharma

Got nearly 100 design students & faculties at @NID_India to build small tools, games & apps using @claudeai. 🚀 Thread on what we focused on + resources put together by @Kenneth below. 🧵👇

Wrote about the process and tools I use when building with AI kenneth.dsouza.im/writing/how-i-…

made a site that picks the closest rothko for how the weather feels outside your window

🎤#VizChitra2026 will open with the question: what kind of visual thinking do our tools allow us to imagine? Meet @arvindsatya1 from @MIT_CSAIL, creator of Vega & Vega-Lite, here to unpack possibilities and limits of modern visualisation grammars. More: vizchitra.com/2026/sessions/…

it’s in gemini, just create it in ai studio. oh, that’s for your personal google one account. for workspace you need gemini business. no, not gemini advanced, that’s ai pro now. unless you need ai ultra. oh agents? you do that in spark actually. no, not gemini api managed agents, that’s different. for coding use jules. unless you mean the agentic ide, that’s antigravity. no, that’s the old antigravity, download the new one. actually gemini cli is being deprecated, use antigravity cli. no the flash model is smarter than the pro model. unless you need pro. if it’s video, use flow. no, flow uses veo. no, nano banana is images. actually that’s in gemini now. unless you’re in search, then it’s ai mode. no, research is notebooklm. anyway it’s all very simple.

Design demo nights has an archive now. Currently based on my notes but hoping to get the speakers to help make it more extensive.

@charmiekapoor Check the grants that @sia_steel & @thej run on supporting projects! Also, some conferences (like @VizChitra) have diversity tickets that folks can help sponsor.

I've been thinking of a creating a small fund / scholarship for designers from my personal savings. Design has given me a lot over the years, and I’ve been lucky in many ways. Want to pay some of that forward. Still figuring out the details, but I'm thinking of supporting things like AI tools, mentorship, tech gear, courses etc. Would also love to hear other ideas from the design community. If you’ve been there, what kind of support would’ve actually made a difference for you? Also do share with anyone who may benefit from something like this 🙏🏼

@Kenneth Bilkul!

Wondering if I should host one more design demo night in May.

#VizChitra2026 speaker lineup is now live! 🎙️📊 See what the community has been plotting. Whether you care about charts, cinema, cities, climate, code, or comms, there’s something for everyone to learn. Explore the talks: vizchitra.com/2026/sessions 📅 4 July, 2026 📍 BIC, BLR

@leopardracer Did you build OMEGA or is this a public project? Love the final zoomed out view with a dashboard!

ANDREJ KARPATHY IS THE GODFATHER OF MODERN AI He doesn’t use Notion. He doesn’t use Roam. He doesn’t use Obsidian plugins. He built his own second brain from scratch. I copied him exactly. The result: → 378 notes → 1,854 nodes → 3,856 edges → One custom 3D knowledge galaxy that thinks back at you This isn’t note-taking. This is a second nervous system. Click any node - AI surfaces every hidden connection. Zoom out - you see your entire mind as a universe. Zoom in - you see why Fischer beating Spassky in 1972 connects directly to your trading edge today. ChatGPT forgets you in 2 hours. This remembers everything. Forever. Notion users are building filing cabinets. Roam users are building spreadsheets. Obsidian users are building graveyards. I built a galaxy. The gap between people who consume knowledge and people who compound it isn’t talent. It’s architecture. Karpathy knew this before anyone. Now you do too.

Fun demos all around! More pictures 👇

folks, edition #2 this sunday luma.com/dvjime6k refined the content, also @cursor_ai now has .md preview & edit, so no obsidian, simplified the workflow a bit :)

At VizChitra, we want the room to reflect a diverse mix of people working with data in India. We’re offering 10 financial aid scholarships to attend #VizChitra2026 on July 4 + ₹5,000 travel support to BLR. If cost is a barrier, this is for you. Apply: vizchitra.com/2026/scholarsh…

Hey so I’m doing a workshop at @VizChitra. Tickets are on sale now 👇🏼

@aadtyn You may have to check DMs! (I often don’t get notifications).

doing a garage sale in indiranagar all day today (sunday). i don't want things anymore. dm for details laptops, ipads, monitors, apple watch, office chair, guitar, table, keyboards, headphones, dji fpv drone, lamp, books, bags, clothes

A question I am thinking about a lot recently: “How do you not lose your soul as a leader in the AI era?” I won’t lie to you. I see a lot of people operating in a way that, when they look back on their life, will fill them with disgust. It fills me with disgust. People ask why I have become so negative about AI and I simply say “I am watching people in the workplace lose their humanity.” So how do you lead with dignity? The first three things that are very clear to me: 1. You owe it to your people to think very deeply about what every single role will look like 1-2 years from now. - What parts of this job are different - Where is human judgement still required? - Do I even need this job any more? - If I need a different job, can I train the people I have today to start doing the new job? 2. Clarity is kindness. Anxiety is at an all time high. Every single person is already asking themselves that question. You owe them clarity. “I don’t know” is still clarity. Perhaps they will show you the future. 3. Try to show up with kindness. At the end of the day you will be fucking dead and nobody will remember your name. Nobody will remember the work you did. It doesn’t matter. It’s not worth it to be a piece of shit, sven if you’re scared or stressed. Just try to be kind.

Long time people!! 👋 The 🦊GitLab UX team is hosting our 1st product design gathering in BLR: The Other Interface, for designers living in the hidden, high-stakes parts of products that quietly run the show. CFP open, registration begns nxt week, YKWTD!🙂 lnkd.in/g3zKv9me

[For every designer who is scared right now 🩶] If the AI stress is catching up to you or you're feeling left behind, take out 5 mins and read this. Nobody really knows how to survive this 'wave'. Even the people building these AI products don't know the future. And if someone's handing you a clear cut path, they're probably selling something. I'm writing this based on the people I know. Some of them are building these tools, some are switching roles. Many just reached out because they didn't know who else to ask. Over the last ten years, I have watched parts of this industry shift. Photoshop to Illustrator to Sketch to Figma. Each time the tool changed, the designer role also evolved. With AI, this is a much bigger move, but that sense of fear feels exactly the same. Here's what I'm actually seeing: Design roles are contracting. It is real. The junior and intern-level work is the most exposed right now, because AI can do a lot of what a new designer would spend their first year learning. Senior designers with strong networks and reputations are largely okay, but not untouchable. Many managers honestly, are more worried than they're letting on. A lot of them haven't touched tools in years. There's also something happening with hiring where managers aren't bringing on juniors right now. Some of it is tight budgets, but a lot of it is that they don't know how to grow someone in this environment anymore. There's no clear ladder to point to. – The roles that remain look different. Companies are now deliberately building out senior and principal IC tracks so the best craft people don't have to choose between growing and managing. A senior designer who goes extremely deep, who has strong taste, ships things and shapes product decisions, is very valuable today. The new shape for a design manager is someone who should also build. They should use tools to prototype fast, validate ideas quickly, show rather than tell. A manager who can demo something in a meeting rather than describe it is a completely different asset. UX writing, content design, marketing are merging into product thinking in a way they weren't before. Designers who can write, actually write well are powerful. – Experiment on your own before it's pushed on you. The design process is changing. The double diamond, the wireframe, the detailed case studies are starting to feel dated. What's replacing it has a lot more building and shipping than documenting and presenting. Don't upskill frantically. Just because a new tool dropped doesn't mean you have to master it. At this rate you'll just burn out chasing things. Pick one process you already do and figure out where AI actually helps within it. Pressure test an idea, poke holes in your reasoning, generate great visuals, explore a direction you'd have killed too early. Get really good at one or two things vs half baked many. Don't get attached to tools. The designers who struggled most through every tool shift were the ones whose identity was too tied to what they already knew. Being the best Framer person in the room was never the point. It was always the work itself. – Learn some code. Even a little. I say this as someone who never wrote code before. Think of it like a 30-day experiment, not a career change. I can share more on how I approached this because I know how intimidating that sentence sounds. Build live things. No one wants static mocks sitting in Figma. See if you can do interactive project demos, solve your own problems by building small tools, push things out, let people use them. A live product in your portfolio right now is worth more than ten polished case studies with no shipping story behind them. – People want a point of view. Generic work is losing. Execution is cheap now. A lot of work is starting to look the same and the ones standing out have something to say. Bring that to your work. Freelancing overall has a lot more money in it right now. But if you're producing generic, template-level work, you're probably in danger. Niche and specific is where the premium is going, and that gap is only going to widen. A lot of people who joined design during the covid wave, drawn by the stability or the salary or the sense that the process was settled, will probably leave. That's okay, maybe even good. Design has always been a craft that changes. The ones who stay will be the ones who actually want to build things. – Be someone people want to work with. Being easy to work with is underrated and always will be. Being collaborative, fun to work with, easy to communicate with async – all this builds up over years in ways no tool can replicate. I've seen technically average designers outlast brilliant ones because of exactly this. Being a good hire isn't just your portfolio. People imagine what it would be like to talk to you, brainstorm with you, disagree with you, and sit in a room with you for two hours every week. Work on that too. Who you surround yourself with matters too. If you don't have people to look up to at your work, find small tight communities that do the kind of work you like and actually share it. I prefer these over large noisy ones. Some big Discord ones are mostly anxiety and self-promotion. – If you're early career, this is for you specifically. I've had many recent grads and those just finishing a bootcamp struggling to find work. I want to say this clearly that is not a reflection of your ability. The timing is just brutal right now and that's not on you. If you're just starting out, look for lean startups or agencies. They still desperately need designers who can think and move fast. Get in the room first and figure out long term plans from there. Hiring pipelines are filled due to mass applications. Post your work online, share WIP experiments, DM the founder whose app you redesigned just for fun. Nobody is coming to find you. You have to shamelessly show up. – More people are building now because friction has never been lower. A lot of them are discovering mid-build that design is what separates good from forgettable. That's not nothing. There's also a new kind of client emerging. Solo builders, indie founders, one-person companies shipping at scale. They don't need a design team but one designer who can build alongside them. That role is growing and it's genuinely interesting work. Yes there's anxiety. But there's also more to build and more personality to showcase. That's where I'd put my energy.

@charmiekapoor Filled the form!

@rasagy I’m not in too many groups. There’s a small SF designers group I’m part of, folks building some of the current AI companies. There’s always something new to pick up there. I also run Designers Who Code community. Happy to add you :)

@manasvaze @charmiekapoor Haha, I am really craving IRL meetups tbh. And Manas, meeting you in person is as difficult now as it was when you were in [/on the outskirts of] Bangalore. 😬😅

@rasagy @charmiekapoor aap humare pyare whatsapp community se na khush hai? 😳

@aviaviaviii @saffrontrail @thesumangalv @JeevanshuN @Vraj247 @0xnimesh @wamikagera @arjunphlox @cherrysandy @Zyhim3 This was so much fun, just the push I needed to get the LLM-powered second brain setup going. Got my claude skills slowly chewing through the long notes and making a nice second brain! x.com/rasagy/status/…

hosted 12 people in our living room; immersive & casual; felt good to have onboarded them onto the second brain AI bandwagon thx <3 @saffrontrail @thesumangalv @rasagy @JeevanshuN @Vraj247 @0xnimesh @wamikagera @arjunphlox @cherrysandy @Zyhim3 + anshul + abhilasha