Jonathan Horst

Those creating excellent work with ai assisted design were excellent designers before.

@gokulr Been doing 1 for years. Glad to hear this is accelerating

DESIGN: THE FIRST AI CASUALTY I'm increasingly sure that 2026 signals the end of product design as a full-fledged stand-alone function within companies. If so, it will be the first role / function to be eliminated by AI on a go-forward basis. Instead of hiring FT designers, startups are hiring / will hire design consultants to create a design system that the founder likes (this takes a few weeks max). Once the design system is finalized, PM/Eng feed it into their AI tool of choice to generate prototypes. The design system is refreshed annually by the same consultant. Larger companies will likely not backfill design roles and will do some targeted attrition to reduce the design department to 20% the size it is today. If you're a designer, I think you have two choices: 1. Become an entrepreneur: Start a design agency and become the go-to resource for design systems for startups and even larger companies. This can be a good recurring revenue business. 2. Become a builder: Add PM/Eng responsibilities to become a product builder. Would suggest you embrace this proactively vs waiting for the other shoe to drop. I'm really sorry about this - some of my best friends and the people I admire most and have learnt the most from are designers - but it seems inevitable.

A common dynamic I observe with AI: it feels most impressive when you don’t know much about the subject, don’t care or don’t have a clear idea of what the you want. This applies across design, code, legal, and more. If I don’t know code very well, every piece of code it writes feels very impressive. Once you know what something should feel or look like, it becomes almost impossible to guide AI there. And you definitely can’t one-shot it.

@uxerik_ A joke

even though i’m speaking at this conference i’ll say it: it’s a joke to have these clowns speaking on a “code is free speech” panel while william hill and keonne rodriguez sit in jail. pardon and release them now.

@elvissun Morality

what’s one problem that can't be solved by throwing more tokens at it?

Reminder that I'm hiring a design intern this summer and the application deadline is...tomorrow! Apply within or tell a friend ☀️

Claude Status Page vs Whole Foods Three Pepper Blend Who wore it better?

@leinwand @webflow Thank you!

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Despite what anyone says designers are in fact not cooked. Good designers are in such high demand right now that companies are applying to interview with them, totally inverting the current hiring process!! This is exactly how things work on Decimals and that's why I joined as a design scout ↓ I want to help the incredible designers in my network get hired at top-tier companies (pretty much every hot start-up rn) Decimals will match you to jobs that make sense, without you having to send in application after application, and ensures every company is an organization that actually values design thinking and talent. Aka no spam or flaky founders. It's invite-only and they're selective, but if your portfolio holds up you'll hear back. They need all types of designers rn but brand designers especially. If you're doing identity work, visual systems, brand strategy for startups — there are multiple companies actively looking for exactly that. If you want in, apply below:

@basic_memory Does one exist?

I'd like to add a Basic Memory plugin for Hermes Agent.

@uxerik_ The deep sea

i hope somewhere there’s an animal no person has ever seen. and i hope no one ever does.

@adriankuleszo Yeah. On twitter’s in app browser on iOS

@jonathanhorst On this page? designme.agency/career

Honest update from last month. We closed a lot of work - almost doubled our revenue. I needed designers fast, hired a few at rates well above what I'd normally pay, and the quality just wasn't there. Price and quality have a loose relationship. The hardest part of scaling is maintaining a consistently high standard across every project, and that's not something a large day rate solves. Going back a step and hiring more than we need now so the team is there when the next wave hits. We're also doubling down on development retainers. With AI in the stack we're shipping MVPs like no tomorrow and these engagements grow over time compared to design retainers pausing every other month so devs can catch up. Scaling an agency is never linear. For now, I'm back to hunting for talent!

no no i've definitely been doing a lot of work it's all just too dangerous to release

@BitcoinatBlock Didn’t work for me

1st → 🌎 2nd → 🪐 3rd →🌌 4th → ???️

@CashApp Didn't work for me

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Had to be done, surprisingly viable. made it as claude-code plugin... /install-plugin github:nvk/llm-wiki /wiki init /wiki:research "your topic" --sources 10

@callebtc Brand and distribution are the moat

openclaw is easy to reproduce. everything is easy to reproduce these days. what you can't easily replace is the project's vision and the open source community behind it.

Prisoner’s dilemma?

Why if you have 3-4?

No internet? No problem. Bala just dropped the ultimate cypherpunk demo at the BOSS Summit: From Off-Grid to On-Chain He literally broadcasted a live Bitcoin transaction using Mesh Radio. No ISPs, no Wi-Fi, no cellular data. Just pure radio waves bypassing the traditional internet layer to hit the mempool. When we say we are building unconfiscatable money for uncertain times, this is exactly what we mean. Mind blown. Here is the repo used to connect meshtastic to bitcoin core:github.com/BTCtoolshed/Me…