Zack, definitely not an advanced AI

I've tried 7 different AI designers this week. My main takeaways for someone looking for help with mobile app design: - Figma Make and Google Stitch are lagging behind. They can design/copy websites fine, but fall apart into genericness when you ask them to handle an original app design. - ScreensDesign surprised me with its strong personality suggestions. On its own, it picked 6 different strong takes on my test idea, including "tabloid / comic book. High drama comedy." That one generated a really unique and strong take. Unfortunately, other aesthetics didn't produce as good of an outcome with them. But this would be one I'd consider for help with onboarding or marketing if not the whole UX. - Sleek Design and UX Pilot both impressed me with their ability to produce a coherent, modern, and mildly innovative UI. They're the two that I'm most likely to pay for at this point.

@theshre @meetgranola @0thernet I've been doing some work with a 3-agent AI app studio I would show off. I'll also give a shout-out to @aelson389 who I saw demo at an OpenClaw meetup last night. His was a standout for the most imaginative and expansive setup of the night.

Who in London has set up some crazy personal AI agents? We're hosting a demo night at the @meetgranola HQ on April 9 with our friends at @zocomputer @0thernet! Would love 2-3 more people to demo what they've built. Who should we have on?

I've been saying for a few weeks now: in 12 months OpenClaw will still not be mainstream, but the ideas and features introduced by OpenClaw will be universal. Good to see Anthropic evidently agrees.

@charlierward @EseKpeji @GRITCULT @bullishLDN I regret to inform you, I told Valerie about this phrase and she has said it about 2000 times in the past day. Going to tesco? Londonmaxxing. Waiting for the bus? Londonmaxxing.

I spoke to City News about #londonmaxxing 😎 Big shoutout to @EseKpeji @GRITCULT @bullishLDN and more - this is a movement inspired by many.

@suevalov @linear Thanks, Alex - mostly found it funny that it snuck through as a one-sided shortcut! Keep up the good work otherwise, loving Linear as a whole.

@zackdotcomputer @linear It's definitely strange, and I swear that it's not a conscious product decision from us. 😅 I think the right thing here is not to have a shortcut for this in the first place, as we don't expect users to change this setting often. I'll discuss with the team and land the fix.

Today in strange product decisions... If you press "shift +" on @linear, it makes the fonts bigger across the entire site. There is no shortcut to make them smaller again.

@zenithquinn @linear No no - this is SHIFT plus +, not CTRL or CMD. This is changing a setting in Linear itself, not the browser's zoom level.

@zackdotcomputer @linear CTRL - to make it smaller again or CTRL+0 to reset

(To get back to normal font sizes you have to go to the organization picker in the top left -> Settings -> Interface and Theme -> Font size to be able to change everything back to normal font size.)

I saw this image from @ryan_brownhill on Threads. There's a kernal of truth here - the roles of the 2010's are going to blur together more as AI automation eats the busywork that was the majority of our time before. But I think his framework is missing the value in the humanity that's still going to be necessary in successful workplaces (for at least a few more years). We've already seen AI tools blur lines, like how a product designer can prototype a webapp or a software engineer can generate a landing page. AI is now doing the basic, boring work of fields. But it still cannot innovate in a way that we expect strong human partners to do. In product development, we will still need humans in the 2020's to handle: 1. Innovating visual designs that transcend convention and actually become memorable or meaningful. 2. Holding a mental map of a huge complex technical system and identifying how to extend and reinforce it. 3. Identifying new ways of using math to process data, finding insights and patterns hidden therein. 4. Understanding people and uncovering meaning from their behaviors and comments. So, I guess Ryan is right that product managers will basically go away, fading into other roles. And I think that the thinning of the other roles to the upper crust of insight and innovation means it will be easier for people to slide between positions like engineer and ux researcher, where previously those roles had moats of specialized busywork beneath. But, I think it is also selling short the true skills that distinguish an excellent engineer or ux researcher or data scientist to say those roles will merge into one blob.

I've been using OpenClaw pretty much full-time for about two weeks now, and I cannot figure out why whenever folks ask me "should I use it?" my immediate answer is still "definitely not."

In January I asked OpenClaw to send 50,000 small invoices to Fortune500 companies every day. Through experimentation we have found 2% will pay without checking if this is a legitimate invoice. These companies are wasteful — Claw captures that leakage. $10m ARR as a solo founder in under two months. AI is enabling so many new business models. Thank you!

It might be time to start tweeting again with everything happening in the tech world right now. I feel like it would be a good time to help folks both inside and outside make sense of AI and what is going on there as things move so quickly.

An absolute pleasure, @JuliaMasli, being drafted to be your assistant tonight! To everyone else, if you're in London you should absolutely go see the brilliant "ha ha ha ha ha ha ha" at Soho Theatre while you can!

This happened to a friend of mine - mugged and threatened for his passcode, and then this service was used to lock him out of his entire @Apple account. His laptop was remote-disconnected from Apple services, ApplePay cards maxed out, iCloud passwords compromised, everything.

@AustinBarwick4 @borancar @QuinnyPig @SlackHQ I think you misunderstood. This is the same as OP's last step but instead of .replace on the json string it parses and edits the perfs object (and it's copy paste, not type from screenshot). Doesn't replace the shell commands. Maybe don't pass out snark to someone trying to help?

Allow me to be more helpful to @SlackHQ customers than their entire support apparatus: If you’re using the native Mac app, here’s how you disable their dogshit user-hostile redesign:

This same org has a permanent "2" notification badge. No new messages. Inside the org, the "2" hovers over "Saved Messages". There are no new saved messages. There 4 old saved messages. There is no way to turn off badging for Saved Messages. The "2" is eternal.

Demolishing my ability to quickly see which orgs I need to check for new messages was bad enough. Now opening a thread takes over the full screen, hiding the conversation's context entirely.

The @SlackHQ redesign is approaching the point where I feel like they are trying to enact psychological warfare on me personally.

It’s rough to support a platform as much as I support Next.js and still fully agree with the API troubles this post points out. Next 13 has been a really rough rollout and it’s far from finished. pilcrow.vercel.app/blog/nextjs-why

About 10 years ago I closed my @etrade account. They messed up the math and left it with $0.01 after closing. A decade later they're still sending monthly statements for this penny, but I can't tell them to just keep it because "only active accounts can call customer service." 🤦🏻‍♂️