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A lot of people say AI will make us all “managers” or “editors”…but I think this is a dangerously incomplete view! Personally, I’m trying to code like a surgeon...
Here’s a thought experiment for pondering the effects AI might have on society: What if we invented teleportation? A bit odd, I know, but bear with me… The year...
In my opinion, one of the best critiques of modern AI design comes from a 1992 talk by the researcher Mark Weiser where he ranted against “copilot” as a metapho...
The pupil was confused. Some people on Design Twitter said that chat isn’t a good UI for AI… but then chat seemed to be winning in many products? He climbed Mou...
There’s a lot of hype these days around patterns for building with AI. Agents, memory, RAG, assistants—so many buzzwords! But the reality is, you don’t need fan...
In my opinion, one of the most important ideas in product design is to avoid the “nightmare bicycle”. Imagine a bicycle where the product manager said: “people...
I want to tell you about a neat experience I had with AI-assisted programming this week. What’s unusual here is: the AI didn’t write a single line of my code. I...
Imagine you bake a delicious peach pie over the weekend, and you offer a slice to your friend. They respond: “Wait, how is this different from every other peach...
It’s the most wonderful time of the year: when people proudly announce how many books they have read in the past 12 months. 10 books, 20 books, 57 books! Worry...
In my previous post, Malleable software in the age of LLMs, I laid out a theory for how LLMs might enable a new era of people creating their own personal softwa...
It’s been a wild few weeks for large language models. OpenAI released GPT-4, which shows impressive gains on a variety of capabilities including coding. Microso...
