Ashim Saxena
@ash1m.bsky.social
Desi.gner
Blue skies, deep space, tabula rasa.. exploring uncharted territories
Blue skies, deep space, tabula rasa.. exploring uncharted territories
Vibecoding results feel the same as swipe-to-type keyboard words. Fingers think they’re making the same pattern, but the machine interprets it differently.
December 9, 2025 at 9:37 PM
Vibecoding results feel the same as swipe-to-type keyboard words. Fingers think they’re making the same pattern, but the machine interprets it differently.
This is the most brutal takedown of a designer I have ever read.
"What people overlooked is the obvious: Alan Dye doesn’t actually care about design."
😱 😱
I have HIGh hopes for Apple Design 🤞 🏴☠️
"What people overlooked is the obvious: Alan Dye doesn’t actually care about design."
😱 😱
I have HIGh hopes for Apple Design 🤞 🏴☠️
December 4, 2025 at 5:15 PM
This is the most brutal takedown of a designer I have ever read.
"What people overlooked is the obvious: Alan Dye doesn’t actually care about design."
😱 😱
I have HIGh hopes for Apple Design 🤞 🏴☠️
"What people overlooked is the obvious: Alan Dye doesn’t actually care about design."
😱 😱
I have HIGh hopes for Apple Design 🤞 🏴☠️
A great use case of AI improving current workflows-
www.cnet.com/tech/service...
Disney selected Animaj because the app is designed to keep the human animator in the driver's seat.
AI handles "motion in-betweens", shortening the time needed to create an animated episode from 5 months to 5 weeks.
www.cnet.com/tech/service...
Disney selected Animaj because the app is designed to keep the human animator in the driver's seat.
AI handles "motion in-betweens", shortening the time needed to create an animated episode from 5 months to 5 weeks.
300,000 AI-Animated Poses in an Instant: My Visit to Disney and the New Reality for Cartoons
Disney checked out "thousands of AI companies" before backing one that keeps animators in the driver's seat.
www.cnet.com
December 1, 2025 at 11:56 AM
A great use case of AI improving current workflows-
www.cnet.com/tech/service...
Disney selected Animaj because the app is designed to keep the human animator in the driver's seat.
AI handles "motion in-betweens", shortening the time needed to create an animated episode from 5 months to 5 weeks.
www.cnet.com/tech/service...
Disney selected Animaj because the app is designed to keep the human animator in the driver's seat.
AI handles "motion in-betweens", shortening the time needed to create an animated episode from 5 months to 5 weeks.
NanoBanana generated this infographic to explain findings of the study- www.psypost.org/a-mathematic...
Its a great first draft to build on, but lacks creative rigor. Corroborates the results 💯
Its a great first draft to build on, but lacks creative rigor. Corroborates the results 💯
November 25, 2025 at 3:53 AM
NanoBanana generated this infographic to explain findings of the study- www.psypost.org/a-mathematic...
Its a great first draft to build on, but lacks creative rigor. Corroborates the results 💯
Its a great first draft to build on, but lacks creative rigor. Corroborates the results 💯
The frenzy for Sora invites is like the Hunger (for-code) Games.
October 4, 2025 at 1:51 AM
The frenzy for Sora invites is like the Hunger (for-code) Games.
This research is a blend of hindsight and foresight.
joincolossus.com/article/ai-w...
joincolossus.com/article/ai-w...
AI Will Not Make You Rich
The disruption is real. It's also predictable.
joincolossus.com
September 22, 2025 at 6:43 PM
This research is a blend of hindsight and foresight.
joincolossus.com/article/ai-w...
joincolossus.com/article/ai-w...
Have been using Techmeme for most of its 20 year run. The best source for what matters in Tech.
And not one design change! Like they say- "If it ain't broke, don't fix it." 🗿
At 20, Techmeme has never been hotter. crazystupidtech.com/2025/09/08/a...
And not one design change! Like they say- "If it ain't broke, don't fix it." 🗿
At 20, Techmeme has never been hotter. crazystupidtech.com/2025/09/08/a...
Gabe Rivera's 20-year-old headline site, Techmeme, has never been hotter.
Journalism is getting battered now. But thanks to the AI boom, Gabe Rivera's 20-year-old headline site Techmeme has never been hotter. Media companies should take notes.
crazystupidtech.com
September 10, 2025 at 2:00 AM
Have been using Techmeme for most of its 20 year run. The best source for what matters in Tech.
And not one design change! Like they say- "If it ain't broke, don't fix it." 🗿
At 20, Techmeme has never been hotter. crazystupidtech.com/2025/09/08/a...
And not one design change! Like they say- "If it ain't broke, don't fix it." 🗿
At 20, Techmeme has never been hotter. crazystupidtech.com/2025/09/08/a...
Typepad shutting down =(
everything.typepad.com/blog/2025/08...
@kathysierra.bsky.social I realized that means Headrush will disappear. It was such a meaningful part of the web for me (and others I’m sure). Are you planning to preserve it on another platform?
Thanks for everything you shared there.
everything.typepad.com/blog/2025/08...
@kathysierra.bsky.social I realized that means Headrush will disappear. It was such a meaningful part of the web for me (and others I’m sure). Are you planning to preserve it on another platform?
Thanks for everything you shared there.
Typepad is shutting down
We have made the difficult decision to discontinue Typepad, effective September 30, 2025. What Does This Mean for You? After September 30, 2025, access to Typepad – including account management, blogs...
everything.typepad.com
September 1, 2025 at 6:17 AM
Typepad shutting down =(
everything.typepad.com/blog/2025/08...
@kathysierra.bsky.social I realized that means Headrush will disappear. It was such a meaningful part of the web for me (and others I’m sure). Are you planning to preserve it on another platform?
Thanks for everything you shared there.
everything.typepad.com/blog/2025/08...
@kathysierra.bsky.social I realized that means Headrush will disappear. It was such a meaningful part of the web for me (and others I’m sure). Are you planning to preserve it on another platform?
Thanks for everything you shared there.
I asked ChatGPT to write an article based on a vague idea.
I liked the result.
ashimsaxena.com/2025/08/26/w...
I liked the result.
ashimsaxena.com/2025/08/26/w...
When Software Becomes the New Selfie
Software is going through its smartphone-camera moment—messy, democratized, and impossible to ignore For most of the 20th century, photography was a fortress. Entry required expensive single-lens r…
ashimsaxena.com
August 28, 2025 at 5:03 PM
I asked ChatGPT to write an article based on a vague idea.
I liked the result.
ashimsaxena.com/2025/08/26/w...
I liked the result.
ashimsaxena.com/2025/08/26/w...
Speaking of energy consumption- ig.ft.com/ai-data-cent...
August 8, 2025 at 12:55 PM
Speaking of energy consumption- ig.ft.com/ai-data-cent...
Apple had the right vision for AI (to build a voice-based virtual assistant), but the core technology required wasn't born yet. Siri was based on NLP and decision trees, while modern LLMs are based on transformer architecture (Google, 2017).
Question/Response model vs. Prediction model
Question/Response model vs. Prediction model
August 5, 2025 at 8:15 PM
Apple had the right vision for AI (to build a voice-based virtual assistant), but the core technology required wasn't born yet. Siri was based on NLP and decision trees, while modern LLMs are based on transformer architecture (Google, 2017).
Question/Response model vs. Prediction model
Question/Response model vs. Prediction model
"If there's something you want to say, no matter how wild, the best way is television. More people will see a lousy movie in a week than read a good book in a year. More people will see one lousy television show in a night than will see a good movie in a year.”
www.nytimes.com/1969/06/08/a...
www.nytimes.com/1969/06/08/a...
Michael Crichton (rhymes with frighten); Michael Crichton (Published 1969)
www.nytimes.com
August 5, 2025 at 8:08 PM
"If there's something you want to say, no matter how wild, the best way is television. More people will see a lousy movie in a week than read a good book in a year. More people will see one lousy television show in a night than will see a good movie in a year.”
www.nytimes.com/1969/06/08/a...
www.nytimes.com/1969/06/08/a...
"AI is cheap not because you don't have to pay the artists but because 10 layers of supervisions and approval, each paid more than 100k $ year, can't give notes on it. With AI you have what you have and you have to be happy with it."
www.reddit.com/r/vfx/commen...
www.reddit.com/r/vfx/commen...
From the vfx community on Reddit: The Eternaut by Netflix was made with Ai VFX and they say it was 10 times faster and cheap.
Explore this post and more from the vfx community
www.reddit.com
July 23, 2025 at 10:28 AM
"AI is cheap not because you don't have to pay the artists but because 10 layers of supervisions and approval, each paid more than 100k $ year, can't give notes on it. With AI you have what you have and you have to be happy with it."
www.reddit.com/r/vfx/commen...
www.reddit.com/r/vfx/commen...
Apple is the only company with the core technology, talent and ethics to rule the robotics market. Offline LLMs with billions of parameters to perform specific tasks, on a device to carry out the instructions would really be useful.
The race to AGI seems more fluff than concrete.
The race to AGI seems more fluff than concrete.
July 17, 2025 at 9:14 PM
Apple is the only company with the core technology, talent and ethics to rule the robotics market. Offline LLMs with billions of parameters to perform specific tasks, on a device to carry out the instructions would really be useful.
The race to AGI seems more fluff than concrete.
The race to AGI seems more fluff than concrete.
What "Al" means shifts every few years, becoming narrowly defined by the "precise method and technique that's in vogue at the moment". Different eras focused on expert systems, intelligent agent architectures, big data, deep learning, and now LLMs, often pushing other broad fields of Al aside.
July 15, 2025 at 11:28 AM
What "Al" means shifts every few years, becoming narrowly defined by the "precise method and technique that's in vogue at the moment". Different eras focused on expert systems, intelligent agent architectures, big data, deep learning, and now LLMs, often pushing other broad fields of Al aside.
Reposted by Ashim Saxena
NASA is more than rockets and moonwalks. NASA is behind much of our everyday technology. From space discovery, to Air Jordans, to CAT scans, NASA has played a role. We get it all on less than a penny of every federal dollar. Now their science may be gutted by 50%.
#NASADidThat
#NASADidThat
July 10, 2025 at 10:39 PM
NASA is more than rockets and moonwalks. NASA is behind much of our everyday technology. From space discovery, to Air Jordans, to CAT scans, NASA has played a role. We get it all on less than a penny of every federal dollar. Now their science may be gutted by 50%.
#NASADidThat
#NASADidThat
Found one thing that LLMs can’t create. Optical Illusions!
June 28, 2025 at 8:50 AM
Found one thing that LLMs can’t create. Optical Illusions!
Results of one-shot prompt in AI coding platforms.
🥇 Bolt
🥈 Replit
🥉 Lovable, v0
🪦 Firebase
🥇 Bolt
🥈 Replit
🥉 Lovable, v0
🪦 Firebase
June 26, 2025 at 2:06 AM
Results of one-shot prompt in AI coding platforms.
🥇 Bolt
🥈 Replit
🥉 Lovable, v0
🪦 Firebase
🥇 Bolt
🥈 Replit
🥉 Lovable, v0
🪦 Firebase
Picasso’s quote- “Mechanical brains (🖥️) are useless. They can only give you answers.”
That’s no longer true. AI doesn’t just provide answers—it can help you ask better, more insightful questions.
That’s no longer true. AI doesn’t just provide answers—it can help you ask better, more insightful questions.
June 24, 2025 at 12:42 PM
Picasso’s quote- “Mechanical brains (🖥️) are useless. They can only give you answers.”
That’s no longer true. AI doesn’t just provide answers—it can help you ask better, more insightful questions.
That’s no longer true. AI doesn’t just provide answers—it can help you ask better, more insightful questions.
Ahead of his time. youtu.be/FquNpWdf9vg?...
The Computer Chronicles - Hypercard (1987)
YouTube video by The Computer Chronicles
www.youtube.com
June 9, 2025 at 10:06 AM
Ahead of his time. youtu.be/FquNpWdf9vg?...
A knockout blow for LLMs? open.substack.com/pub/garymarc...
A knockout blow for LLMs?
LLM “reasoning” is so cooked they turned my name into a verb
open.substack.com
June 9, 2025 at 7:41 AM
A knockout blow for LLMs? open.substack.com/pub/garymarc...
Reposted by Ashim Saxena
Critical shift www.semafor.com/article/06/0...
The ease of vibe coding could upend the economics of scarcity and scale
As the cost and difficulty of coding falls, how do companies adapt strategies and processes built on husbanding and prioritizing scarce tech resources?
www.semafor.com
June 8, 2025 at 4:56 AM
Critical shift www.semafor.com/article/06/0...
🪦 Low-fidelity wireframes and prototypes are history.
🎬 Brainstorming sessions turning into concept walkthroughs.
🙋♂️ Judging feasibility to build something faster than ever before.
🔍 People will need to learn how to critique a design- ex. give feedback on function, not form in early stages.
🎬 Brainstorming sessions turning into concept walkthroughs.
🙋♂️ Judging feasibility to build something faster than ever before.
🔍 People will need to learn how to critique a design- ex. give feedback on function, not form in early stages.
June 7, 2025 at 8:12 PM
🪦 Low-fidelity wireframes and prototypes are history.
🎬 Brainstorming sessions turning into concept walkthroughs.
🙋♂️ Judging feasibility to build something faster than ever before.
🔍 People will need to learn how to critique a design- ex. give feedback on function, not form in early stages.
🎬 Brainstorming sessions turning into concept walkthroughs.
🙋♂️ Judging feasibility to build something faster than ever before.
🔍 People will need to learn how to critique a design- ex. give feedback on function, not form in early stages.
Reposted by Ashim Saxena
My experience working as a software engineer for the Department of Veterans Affairs, on behalf of DOGE.
sahillavingia.com/doge
sahillavingia.com/doge
DOGE Days
My experience joining the United States DOGE Service as a software engineer, and what I learned along the way.
sahillavingia.com
May 28, 2025 at 11:56 PM
My experience working as a software engineer for the Department of Veterans Affairs, on behalf of DOGE.
sahillavingia.com/doge
sahillavingia.com/doge