Alexander Vilinskyy

Instagram is way more authentic than Twitter.

I’m saying this with love, but @figma needs to start moving. I know they have “growth and revenue” but it’s not going to last. I use it, but every day it feels more limiting, not empowering. They try to ride on “creativity tool”, but it’s a losing strategy. People don’t like to pay for “creativity”, but they appreciate the “creativity” in the process. (I’ve been selling “creativity” for the past 20 years) Instead of trying to catch up with @Lovable and @Replit , they need to row in opposite direction and become a “visual language of the process”. Without this shift to their product strategy, they will keep losing to upcoming competitors, who are catching up very fast. Seemless handoff, better and faster search, more ways to organize and present design — infrastructure nobody else owns. Literally every PM I know complains how it’s impossible to find designs after some time. No, pages with emojis don’t help, thanks. Instead they’re chasing Lovable with vector paintbrushes that became out-trended within a week. Figma have to understand that their main competitor is @linear , not website building tools. Right now, everyone loses: designers, PMs, companies, the Figma team, and their investors.

Investors are trying so hard to be contrarian instead of helping founders they invested in.

The new Opus 4.7 and GPT-5.5 will be released in ~2-3 weeks.

When I was talking about "anglofuturism" I completely missed the zeitgeist, because the vibes are called "Londonmaxxxing" now.

I don't know if it's my bubble, but I can easily found a founder who's trying to change the world, but I can't find a founder who's trying to change their street or city. There are multiple incentives at play, but one of them is that you're not going to face "world people" as much as you would face "locals" if you fail.

having a beautiful dedicated home office is an absolute game changer. a place that's comfortable af where the setup is dialed to a tee.. immaculate large desk for both computer use & writing/thinking, art on the walls, inspirational books on the shelf, a keyboard that's pure butter, a rug that ties the room together, studio displays, a cool couch with a tv for conference calls among other things. a beautiful space matters so damn much to me. maybe i'll post a pic of it.

@tomjohndesign So far we're moving into the opposite direction x.com/vilinskyy/stat…

pretty convinced that the next wave of design/dev tools are going to stand out because they give precise control for formerly imprecise methods, while removing the need to have precision in pursuit of differentiated outcomes. before it was all about precision of tiny tools -- margins, paddings, colors, spacing. soon it will be the creation of tools that were formerly impossible to give control of many complex tasks to a single UI. the death of UI is overstated. the death of UI that only does a single thing is coming.

@whale No it, completely fumbles, because Figma is lazy at porting applied styles into css properties or at least describing them (like border-gradient for example).

How're you achieving consistent results between Claude and Figma? I'm getting close with the MCP, Playwright, and best practices QA md's, but I still get in loops where things are missed over and over.

I cure my "airport stress" by being grateful that I'm flying at all.

@AriaWestcott @signulll I need to self-reflect on this more.

@signulll We are living inside what every previous generation would have called a miracle and most of us are just mildly inconvenienced by it daily

forget ai.. the fact that two people can maintain a single fluid conversation across any device, anywhere on earth, even hurtling through the atmosphere at 500mph & that this is now unremarkable might be the craziest shit that has ever happened. your grandpa thought long distance calls were a luxury & you’re annoyed when youtube takes 400ms to load on a plane.

The reason CC is addictive is well studied before — it's the feedback loop. To many designers, it's a well known feeling, when you can't leave design at any time, because there's always something to improve. It's because every time you do something, it shows you the change. It's the same addiction as gaming, because your actions lead to consequences, that you immediately see. Many jobs simply don't have this gratification loop. If you "think strategy", the feedback loop is 5 years. If you develop back-end, it will come up only later when you test the whole thing. In design it's milliseconds. So this "addictiveness" is just a direct result of shorter feedback loop between input and output. It has it's own downsides, because strategy is usually more well-thought. The longer the distance without feedback loop — the higher "thinking amount" you have to do, because you wouldn't be able to steer it immediately, if the feedback will come in years. So both are true: 1. It's more enjoyable to receive faster feedback, more things are get done, you feel more engaged 2. The quality will always drop, because feedback is "cheap" and your mind finds shortcuts, when available. Since "doing" is rewarded more than "thinking" in current economy — AI flows are on the right path.

Because shadows are nice and add depth!

The best way to calibrate your sense of how to make someone curious is to receive 200 cold messages a day. Only 1 or 2 will really stand out and it's important to reflect what made you read. People are really over-signaling and it becomes a noise. Examples of signals, that are outdated: - Worked at Meta/Google/Nike - ex-founder of ... , exits - ai-enabled/empowered/connected - AI | PM | UX | FE - any certifications - any university - any work that "multiplied sales by..." - any awards or recognitions - "I believe in..." and something mild like "ai is worst it will even be" - Bad profile picture (ban for cutout head on a color background) - "Senior" - bio that's too long And the funny thing — all these signals USED to work. They were good, when not many people had them. And all of them look tacky, because of the volume. That's why writing short, lower case and funny is growing for people.

@peduarte I wish some of my assets were this liquid.

your dock's about to change real soon

I hate switching back to Opus 4.5, because it feels like switching to “older model”, like I’m choosing “something worse”. But this “developer” actually ships, makes less mistakes, extrapolates so much better than 4.6. It feels like newer must be better. It feels like expensive must be better. And sometimes it’s not. I suspect companies are chasing to improve their benchmarks so much, they might make the real experience worse.

@signulll I used to judge people who criticized Waymo, but then I caught myself being the one who "didn't feel like drinking coffee from robo-arm".

if you showed this chart to a typical economist like 20 years ago, they would've laughed you out of the room. the right side of this is white collar jobs that were once worshipped. these jobs were comfortable, well paying, & came with societal status + recognition. your parents would’ve been proud of you. now these are likely all set to be severely impacted in a shorter period of time than anyone likely ever thought of let alone projected. this is like ppl waiting on a beach enjoying the sun when a tsunami has already struck.

I wish browser supported having 3000 tabs. I know it's a lot, but there are many research cases, when you want to keep them open and process things non-linearly. The mobility matters too — sorting all by date of opening, by domain, by proximity to certain topic.