design, craft and point of view are the differentiators slop-maxxing is not sufficient to win

This looks straight out of Blender, but it's all code in a single HTML file at about 186 KB. Astra can create these ultra-realistic 3D product demos for landing pages. A few three.js skills let you keep looping on the details, textures, lighting, and interactions until everything feels right. Live site: opxy.mengto.here.now Our team has been adding five landing pages and dozens of components to threeui.com every week. Reusing the same components and skills has improved the quality so much.

the right way to use model capabilities is not to ship 10x more features to prod it's to spend more time understanding your users, trying experiments, building prototypes, learning about things you don't understand so that you can ship things that actually work

User interfaces are not going away. Yes, humans will use computers alongside agents. When working with agents, we will need the ability to audit what agents do in a human-readable way. Yes, some interfaces (ex: dashboards, in-chat UI for ephemeral tasks, etc) will be generated. Most important interfaces will be intentionally designed. We will want both deterministic and non-deterministic interfaces in different situations. We're thinking a lot about the best ways to help designers shape non-deterministic systems at Figma. Yes, new input modalities like voice, VR/AR and BCI will change the way we use computers and introduce lots of new interaction paradigms. This is all very exciting :) Overall, the surface area of design will continue to grow much broader. Design is the new code and the key differentiator for software moving forward. Expect more and more energy to go into design / craft in the years ahead... it will be how you win or lose. Eric is right about plenty of things, but the market will prove him wrong on this one...

Normie life is great. Marriage. Kids. Church. Costco. Youth sports. Suburbs. W-2. Dinner tables. Mowing grass. HOA. Savings plan. Packing lunches.

I built a Photoshop-like image editor. It’s called Compositor. robbietilton.com/compositor I originally built it for myself to get off my Adobe subscription, but decided to release it for free and make it open source. It has all the essential tools I need for compositing, with none of the BS. I know this workflow is kind of archaic in 2026, but I’m still using it until AI can actually get pixel-perfect on some of the details. The entire app is 12MB. Photoshop is 6,455MB on my machine.

Introducing the US Gov Graph - a complete map of the people and positions of power in the federal government. To fix our institutions we must understand how they work, so we are using AI to model and monitor every government in America. This is Palantir for The People. Check it out here: graph.civlab.org/us We exist to set the conditions for an era of civic excellence unmatched since the Founding. We will need nothing less to navigate the age of AI. I'm looking for exceptional engineers and designers to work with me in San Francisco. If that's you, inquire here: tally.so/r/KY97RK. Self-governing civilization is counting on you.

Tariffs are good. They're paid for by foreigners. But it's good when they're removed, because that makes things more affordable. Also we are going to distribute the tariff funds—which are good, because imports are good. But it’s also good that we won't have those funds from this.

Our national debt is immoral. It will make everyone's lives more miserable. We need to balance the federal budget, ASAP.

This iPhone duo animation

Since you weren’t even born yet, I’m going to answer in good faith: 9/11 was America’s collective loss of innocence. In the decades prior, we’d won the Cold War by outspending the Soviets. We were the sole remaining superpower, and we were in a period of peace and economic prosperity. Then, seemingly out of nowhere, we suffered a suicide attack with a higher death toll than Pearl Harbor. It struck a city on the US mainland, the first attack of that scale to hit CONUS since the Civil War. In a violent flash, and on live television, our collective illusions of safety, security, and peace disappeared. For most Americans, it was the first time we ever had to contend with that scale of horror, and what it implied about the fragility of our way of life. It was simultaneously sobering and terrifying. The American response was to launch two wars, and to restructure domestic life around the Government’s presumed duty to spy on everyone, so nothing like it could ever happen again. I am not being hyperbolic when I say the America we grew up in—imagined or not—vanished on 9/11. What you’re calling a “worshipful attitude” is a mix of reverence for the dead, and mourning for the loss of what existed before.

13 years ago, Apple asked a question that hits me harder today than ever: If everyone is busy making everything, how can anyone perfect anything? Every day, I see a world flooded with effortless AI slops. I’m realizing that to build something truly great today, you need a level of focus the world has never demanded before. It feels like trying to write a quiet, beautiful song in a room full of loud noise.

After seeing so many ESP32 devices, I think people seriously underestimate the jog dial and the humble REC slide switch. Hardware designers should learn more from 2000s Japanese consumer electronics. Those teams understood tactile UX long before touchscreens took over.

Racists hate adoption because it blows their entire worldview to smithereens. I know a family who adopted a kid from the Congo. He’s a hillbilly with a southern accent who loves Jesus and loves deer hunting. Aside from his looks, indistinguishable from his family and community. They have a daughter they adopted from Ethiopia. She now teaches at a university. The “DNA is destiny” crowd has no answer to this except to seethe. Adoption is a beautiful picture of what Christ did for us. That’s why Satan and his minions hate it.

weird that there's a "make a lot of money" button and nobody's pressing it (take your SaaS, make it headless, let agents use it, charge per interaction esp for enterprises)

Snowstorm in New York City

The Oregon Coast

I would rather be what God chose to make me than the most glorious creature that I could think of. For to have been thought about - born in God's thoughts - and then made by God, is the dearest, grandest, most precious thing in all thinking. -George MacDonald

Coding is easier than ever, but thinking is still hard. Nothing has changed. The bottleneck is still your brain, not a model.