Shalin Amin

The best technology disappears. Right now, using AI feels like programming. You negotiate with prompts, iterate on instructions, fight with interfaces. What if using AI became as effortless as using a pen? #Design #ProductManagement #Engineering #IdeaCanvas #AIart 1/7 🧵

Prediction: In the AI age, taste will become even more important. When anyone can make anything, the big differentiator is what you choose to make. paulgraham.com/taste.html

@mattshumer_ People are in awe and when you take a step back and really consider the step change—it’s impossible to ignore the thoughtfulness of its thinking.

We've been here before. Television promised shared experience. Delivered passive consumption. Mobile phones promised connection. Delivered dependency. Social media promised community. Delivered performance. open.substack.com/pub/shalinamin… Each crossed from tools that enhanced capabilities to dependency. We never noticed until going back was impossible. AI is approaching that threshold. But this time we can see it coming. One path lowers the floor. The other raises the ceiling. We still get to choose.

@wabi one last app. Build me a granola clone with YouTube video transcription feature.

@wabi build me an app that sends heartfelt messages to random people on their birthday.

AI is already a cheat code. So if you’re copying other people’s prompts, downloading their workflows, following their playbooks… you’re cheating at cheating. What’s your edge?

Intelligent Centric vs. Data Centric The Missing Layer Isn’t Data. It’s Judgment. open.substack.com/pub/ifykykme/p…

If you are single shot vibe coding, you are doing it wrong. Even with @Google Gemini 3. Lessons learned. What feels like #magic one day will feel like #AIslop the next. Go back to the fundamentals. The time you spend on thinking and strategy becomes time you save on execution and refactoring, or in your case prompting 400 times. Give it time people.

@sama It’s incredible that you can’t train that out of the model and require special instruction per user. People having to adopt to the LLMs limitation vs it adapting to us seems like a flaw in the process layer. okWOW.ai removes those issues.

Small-but-happy win: If you tell ChatGPT not to use em-dashes in your custom instructions, it finally does what it's supposed to do!

@alliekmiller Golden Greg = Design Slapbot Sam = SEO Someone had to say it.

You need to fire people that generate endless workslop with AI. There will be a cohort of people that will drag down the group project, so to speak. They’re going to have ChatGPT generate generic, low-quality, inaccurate, off-brand, potentially harmful BS for your company. Let’s call this person Slopbot Sam. Then they’ll pass it to a checker - a smarter liability holder, let’s call them Golden Greg - who has a higher bar and refuses to let trash out the door and who has to fix everything. Golden Greg is now stuck with hours of additional labor to review and potentially fix Slopbot Sam’s input. Golden Greg could have spent his time creating unbelievably high-value work and changing the course of his company for the better. Instead, Golden Greg’s time is allocated to fixing Slopbot Sam’s crap output. So your org is now producing Slopbot Sam’s half-baked ideas and Golden Greg’s edits, instead of both Slopbot Sam (with training) and Golden Greg’s best ideas. Workslop and lazy employees will destroy your competitive advantage. Raise the bar on Slopbot Sam and coach him. Set clear AI expectations and incentivize high-quality AI usage. AI usage alone does not equal success with AI. Work success is still based on quality, trust, taste and curation, data and insights that increase customer value, and speed of iteration toward a goal. Even if AI can 10x the quantity, you don’t want to scale trash. Fire Slopbot Sam. Reward Golden Greg.

Some of us aren't waiting. okWOW.ai Think Together Nothing meaningful is built alone. 7/7

We'll stop asking "how do I prompt this AI?" and start asking "what do I want to create?" The cognitive load disappears. The creative possibilities explode. 6/7

The best technology disappears. Right now, using AI feels like programming. You negotiate with prompts, iterate on instructions, fight with interfaces. What if using AI became as effortless as using a pen? #Design #ProductManagement #Engineering #IdeaCanvas #AIart 1/7 🧵