Daniel Howells

Interesting. Gamma paid “the design tax” to a fantastic design agency for their brand identity. I’d love to see a robust public conversation about how AI design tools aren’t good enough for companies to use on their own brands, but are ostensibly good enough for their customers.

Anthropic is working on Sketch tool for Claude (as attachment)

Sorry kids, daddy is so upset by a github fork he’s spending the afternoon writing a Twitter blog about it. I used to really like Vercel. But why must their ceo and cto be so damn sensitive.

The token cost to build a production feature is now lower than the meeting cost to discuss building that feature. Let me rephrase. It is literally cheaper to build the thing and see if it works than to have a 30 minute planning meeting about whether you should build it. It’s wild when you think about it. This completely inverts how you should run a software organization. The planning layer becomes the bottleneck because the building layer is essentially free. The cost of code has dropped to essentially 0. The rational response is to eliminate planning for anything that can be tested empirically. Don’t debate whether a feature will work. Just build it in 2 hours, measure it with a group of customers, and then decide to kill or keep it. I saw a startup operating this way and their build velocity is up 20x. Decision quality is up because every decision is informed by a real prototype, not a slide deck and an expensive meeting. We went from “move fast and break things” to “move fast and build everything.” The planning industrial complex is dead. Thank god.

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Those asking for the maths: On a £150k salary in the UK (with a Plan 2 student loan): Income tax: £50,328 National Insurance: £5,011 Student loan: £11,043 (say what you want but an MP has said they use the interest for general government spending) Direct deductions: £66,382 Then add: Council tax: £3,600 Road tax: £500 Stamp duty: £10,000 Fuel duty (~£300/mo fuel): ~£1,600 Estimated VAT: ~£11,000 Total tax: ~£93,000 From £150k earned, roughly £57k actually ends up in your pocket. It then costs me £700/month (£8,400/year) just to travel to work — from post-tax income. After that, I'm left with about £48k of actual usable money. Effective tax rate: ~62% (≈68% including cost just to get to work).