So much of the work in a company is dealing with human stuff. The "we shouldn't do X because stakeholder Y has been advocating against it and it's not the right battle to fight right now" kind of stuff. Or the "if we do Y then we will need to wait 9 months for the security team to approve it" stuff.

Honestly it would be good for us to get off screens.

I'm hoping AI slop is the thing that finally breaks the hold social media has on us

Tbh it's working well

At this point I've told my engineers I just assume they're magicians who can do anything I dream of and start from there

At this point I'm about to go back to brute-force prototyping and just mock up my hover states as new screens because this is ridiculous

@figma.com WHY please dear lord why

I can tell it's trying to do a lot of smart things but it's just unbelievably fucking broken and I've just spent the last HOUR trying to make literally the simplest hover state not be horrendously broken

I guess my beef is with (venture?) capitalism, but I wish more great products could just become great and then rest on their laurels for years, only changing when it was actually required

I do this on a sentence level! Not even for full paragraphs.

It's especially helpful for UX copy and help text etc; stuff where you want it to be as boring and obvious as possible.

then by looking at those versions, I'll always be able to cobble together a way better final version of the copy.

Wow... I hate it

fascinating that #AI is impacting the job market in this way - not directly taking our jobs, but clouding the #recruiting process so much that real candidates aren't getting through, and hirers are resorting to personal networks to solve it.

I think some of this might explain at least some part of the many reddit threads of experienced tech people who have applied to hundreds of jobs with zero luck.

and if you're a real applicant whose resume is a 9/10, you might have been pushed way down the list by these 400 fake applicants.

it seems to me like the obvious journey a hirer would go on would be that by the time you've wasted an hour interviewing your 2nd or 3rd creepy deepfake candidate, you pull the ad off LinkedIn and go directly to recruiting via network.

therefore making it even harder to break in

and at the same time, reddit is absolutely full of designers and engineers who are finding it seemingly impossible to find a job.

I wonder how much this is contributing to that situation?

As @ezraklein.bsky.social said, writing itself is the process of thinking.

If we lose the ability to write, we're losing the ability to think.

I see it in others - leaders who want to land on the first, obvious answer and move on instantly - but I also feel the urge towards it in myself... I'll have an idea that begs deeper thought & there's a temptation to run to chatgpt, blurt out a braindump and ask it to clarify the thinking for me

This is so cool!