Jeremy Kanter
@jeremykanter.com
I do all my own stunts. Design nonsense here, sports nonsense at @jeremykanter.bsky.social. (he/him)
"It sounds like science fiction: A company turns a dial on a product used by hundreds of millions of people and inadvertently destabilizes some of their minds."
I dunno, "science fiction" sounds an awful lot like basically every social media platform.
I dunno, "science fiction" sounds an awful lot like basically every social media platform.
For the last few months, we've been talking to current and former employees of OpenAI to understand what went wrong with ChatGPT this year and how the company is fixing it. Here's the story: www.nytimes.com/2025/11/23/t...
What OpenAI Did When ChatGPT Users Lost Touch With Reality
www.nytimes.com
November 24, 2025 at 5:23 PM
"It sounds like science fiction: A company turns a dial on a product used by hundreds of millions of people and inadvertently destabilizes some of their minds."
I dunno, "science fiction" sounds an awful lot like basically every social media platform.
I dunno, "science fiction" sounds an awful lot like basically every social media platform.
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I think one of the saddest things about being a millennial is remembering a time when technology was advancing in a way that made life better and easier and more exciting instead of actively, intentionally worse
July 9, 2025 at 7:18 PM
I think one of the saddest things about being a millennial is remembering a time when technology was advancing in a way that made life better and easier and more exciting instead of actively, intentionally worse
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It all happens on Bluesky
October 16, 2025 at 3:22 AM
It all happens on Bluesky
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Boss, we’ve got a problem. Users don’t want this stuff! They keep wanting to turn it off, even when we keep turning it back on!
Boss: I have an idea
Boss: I have an idea
October 12, 2025 at 4:13 PM
Boss, we’ve got a problem. Users don’t want this stuff! They keep wanting to turn it off, even when we keep turning it back on!
Boss: I have an idea
Boss: I have an idea
I wrote about some weird gross stuff I saw on the App Store. www.jeremykanter.com/thoughts/the...
The App Store has an AI slop problem - Jeremy Kanter
Hi. I'm a product designer who does a bit of everything.
www.jeremykanter.com
September 16, 2025 at 12:50 PM
I wrote about some weird gross stuff I saw on the App Store. www.jeremykanter.com/thoughts/the...
Is it just me, or does the iPhone 17 Pro come off as vaguely cyberpunk to anyone else?
September 12, 2025 at 6:43 PM
Is it just me, or does the iPhone 17 Pro come off as vaguely cyberpunk to anyone else?
Tim Cook is using a familiar strategy to stay in Donald Trump’s good graces: handing him a shiny toy and telling him he can keep it.
August 7, 2025 at 2:49 AM
Tim Cook is using a familiar strategy to stay in Donald Trump’s good graces: handing him a shiny toy and telling him he can keep it.
The worst thing about Substack is all the nazi stuff, but the second worst thing is how many of its newsletters use Spectral as a body text font. I made a Safari extension that replaces it with something more readable.
apps.apple.com/us/app/spect...
apps.apple.com/us/app/spect...
August 6, 2025 at 2:05 PM
The worst thing about Substack is all the nazi stuff, but the second worst thing is how many of its newsletters use Spectral as a body text font. I made a Safari extension that replaces it with something more readable.
apps.apple.com/us/app/spect...
apps.apple.com/us/app/spect...
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Somatic - David Lanham
July 19, 2025 at 7:00 AM
Somatic - David Lanham
I want to love Firefox, but this is absolutely unhinged UI.
July 7, 2025 at 10:34 PM
I want to love Firefox, but this is absolutely unhinged UI.
For every repost this gets I will share one (1) opinion or observation about Liquid Glass.
June 11, 2025 at 6:08 PM
For every repost this gets I will share one (1) opinion or observation about Liquid Glass.
Oh hey, they did my thing. medium.com/design-bootc...
Please, Apple. My music library. It’s very sick.
Apple Music has one terrible drawback that makes organizing your music library a nightmare.
medium.com
June 9, 2025 at 5:36 PM
Oh hey, they did my thing. medium.com/design-bootc...
Launching competitors to Webflow, Lovable, Illustrator, and Canva all in one event is actually insane.
Did you catch them all? Here’s everything we announced at #Config2025
→ Figma Sites
→ CMS in Figma Sites (coming soon)
→ Grid
→ Figma Make
→ Figma Draw
→ Figma Buzz
→ Figma Sites
→ CMS in Figma Sites (coming soon)
→ Grid
→ Figma Make
→ Figma Draw
→ Figma Buzz
All the launches at Config 2025 | Figma
YouTube video by Figma
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May 7, 2025 at 7:19 PM
Launching competitors to Webflow, Lovable, Illustrator, and Canva all in one event is actually insane.
Going through a checkout flow on a government website and one date field strictly requires MM/YY format (you must type the / yourself) while the next strictly requires MMYY format.
April 25, 2025 at 3:06 PM
Going through a checkout flow on a government website and one date field strictly requires MM/YY format (you must type the / yourself) while the next strictly requires MMYY format.
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we don’t need “Frutiger Aero” or “Aqua” or “Skeuomorphism” back or whatever
the aesthetic was never the problem
what we need is designs that have actual love and care put into them
the aesthetic was never the problem
what we need is designs that have actual love and care put into them
April 16, 2025 at 9:25 AM
we don’t need “Frutiger Aero” or “Aqua” or “Skeuomorphism” back or whatever
the aesthetic was never the problem
what we need is designs that have actual love and care put into them
the aesthetic was never the problem
what we need is designs that have actual love and care put into them
This is how I learned that TikTok had an Instagram-like Notes app.
TikTok is shutting down its Instagram-like Notes app
TikTok is shutting down its Instagram-like Notes app
TikTok is directing users to Lemon8 instead.
buff.ly
April 3, 2025 at 11:25 PM
This is how I learned that TikTok had an Instagram-like Notes app.
We all know someone who leaves Figma comments like this.
March 26, 2025 at 2:48 PM
We all know someone who leaves Figma comments like this.
It’s not gonna make a difference but it did make me feel 0.5% better.
February 11, 2025 at 9:23 PM
It’s not gonna make a difference but it did make me feel 0.5% better.
Whoa, when did ChatGPT fix their logo?
February 3, 2025 at 12:23 AM
Whoa, when did ChatGPT fix their logo?
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normalise whole-arsing your apps
January 31, 2025 at 4:58 AM
normalise whole-arsing your apps
So they’re one step away from showing your friends pictures of you doing things you didn’t do. Cool cool cool. Very cool stuff. Very cool company.
New: Days after Meta had to kill its AI-generated profiles due to backlash, some Instagram users are now being shown AI-generated images of themselves that are being automatically created by Instagram and put in their feeds
www.404media.co/instagram-be...
www.404media.co/instagram-be...
Instagram Begins Randomly Showing Users AI-Generated Images of Themselves
Meta AI put a Redditor into "an endless maze of mirrors" as part of a new AI feature it is testing.
www.404media.co
January 7, 2025 at 12:11 AM
So they’re one step away from showing your friends pictures of you doing things you didn’t do. Cool cool cool. Very cool stuff. Very cool company.
December 16, 2024 at 7:41 PM