“Make me a podcast about training a border collie not to bark at the doorbell”

This was great. Actually gave me some ideas I hadn’t seen or tried before.

Ever tried the Dumb Phone app? I’ve been using it for the past 6 months or so and don’t have any plans of going back.

apps.apple.com/us/app/dumb-...

Cursor enables my minuscule dev skills to actually push code.

Is it perfect? No.
Will I replace our devs soon? lol...no way.

But it allows me to be a better partner to our devs and fix a lot of small things that have a big impact on the product experience.

Now, I can make the change myself in about the time it would have taken to mock it up in Figma and write up the issue for a dev.

I've done a handful of these types of changes so far. (This is the simplest example that was easy to post about.)

I used to batch these types of things into a "polish" or "papercuts" ticket. And then we'd hopefully get to them once per cycle.

I was able to give Cursor the screenshot and ask it where to make the changes. It pointed me to the component's desktop and mobile versions.

I added the text, modified the styling a bit, and pushed the branch up to Github.

No Figma needed.

While I'm very comfortable changing the markup to add the text, navigating the codebase to make the change myself would have been a bit out of my comfort zone in the past.

This is a React app, not just a simple static site codebase. So it's above my minimal dev experience.

Vibe editing

This is the first real site I’ve built with @framer.com

Took the “skip Figma entirely” approach and it worked very well.

Love how easy it was to rebuild pieces of UI to have perfectly crisp screenshots.

Agreed.

I’ve moved a lot of my early explorations to AI tools.

And I’ve been using Cursor for larger, highly interactive prototypes.

Still use Figma for small things and visual polish. But now it more like using Illustrator 😬

I’ve wanted markdown in notes FOREVER. Sometimes I forget it doesn’t have it and I type markdown syntax.

Thank you 🙏🏻