Why I’m Giving Up My Design Title—And What That Says About The Future of DesignWhy I’m Giving Up My Design Title—And What That Says About The Future of Design

“The secret of change is to focus all of your energy not on fighting the old,
but on building the new.”
— Socrates

I vividly remember my first encounter with a private experimental version of GPT-4. It wasn't just the content of the responses that grabbed my attention; early versions often produced errors, making it clear that this was still very new technology. What truly struck me, though, was its eloquence. I thought about how language is uniquely human, the very thing that makes us the most advanced species on this planet. If we could replicate that power in an artificial system, regardless of its sentience, the potential would be enormous—solving everything from complex problems like protein folding, streamlining intricate enterprise workflows, and yes, even doing your taxes.

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100 sats \ 0 replies \ @Scoresby 31 Jul

Take a tour of today’s YC cohort websites. They don’t look amateur. They look polished. Cohesive. Designed. Not because they hired great designers—but because great design has been packaged, standardized, and made accessible to anyone with a GitHub repo and an hour.

People are getting generationally wealthy inventing new agentic abstractions, compressing inference cycles, and scaling frontier models safely. That’s where the gravity is. That’s where anybody should aspire to be. With AI enabling and augmenting you as an individual, there’s a far more compelling reason to chase this frontier. No reason not to.

Feels like a stream of aspirational consciousness. I don't doubt that it's accurate, but sometimes I read things like this and I'm not sure what to do. Also, this makes me feel like I need to seriously up my agent-using effectiveness.

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @LibertasBR 31 Jul

You should be the first to be critical of this and not embrace the crude emulation of AI over human communication.

There's nothing impressive about replacing intricate human relationships and workflows with those under human supervision.