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design, craft and point of view are the differentiators
slop-maxxing is not sufficient to win
Software is increasingly treated as disposable in the AI era. Yet we spend half our waking lives looking at screens! We don’t want to spend that time with zombie products—monotonous, vacant, and uncared for. We want products with soul. 💜
I go deep on this in my talk from @lennysan's Summit: piped.video/watch?v=GLvFTMtw…
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"Keep prompts short to reduce the environmental impact"
... I do not think it means what you think it means
BREAKING: the UK government publishes official rules on how to use AI:
1. Ask first if you really need to use AI
2. Check if a spreadsheet can do the job before using AI
3. Choose the worst model possible so it uses less energy
4. Keep prompts short to reduce the environmental impact
5. In general, use AI only when necessary, as a climate-saving measure
With a mindset like this, we should accept the UK back into the European Union
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Dylan Field retweeted
Today we're announcing $75M to build Solcoa One, our 500-tonne rare earth metallization plant in Nevada.
At Solcoa, we believe rare earths are the foundation of America's next great industrial era. An era we intend to win on the merits, with superior American technology.
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Bitrig can now turn your Figma designs into native Swift apps built with Apple’s real controls and materials.
bitrig.link/blog/turn-figma-…
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Dylan Field retweeted
1/ Biological threats can bring a country to a halt without a single shot being fired. Yet much of our biodefense infrastructure has barely changed in decades, even as America’s institutions produce extraordinary scientific breakthroughs.
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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...
"User interfaces are largely going to go away.
Because the agents speak English, or other languages. You can talk to them. You can say what you want. The UI can be generated.
So I can say, generate me a set of buttons that allows me to solve this problem, and it's generated for you."
- Eric Schmidt is the former CEO of Google.
Today’s websites are designed for humans, with carefully crafted UIs.
But we are probably moving towards UI-less web.
automated bot traffic has already surpassed human activity on the web. with AI agents, this number will explode.
In near future its very plausible that 90% or more of web traffic will be non-human.
Imagine a web with no websites. All your favorite apps are now just databases, queried for information by agents that zip around on your behest.
In a world primarily composed of bots, what happens to websites? Do agents learn to navigate them like a human? Do they go away entirely? 🤔
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Introducing Figma node: connect any Figma frame into Weave workflows so you can
→ Create on-brand content at scale
→ Iterate, translate, or turn your designs into video
→ Edit and all connected assets stays up to date
Available now to everyone.
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We're sharing our new framework for tracking, investigating, and disclosing instances of model misalignment at OpenAI.
The framework sets criteria and timelines for public disclosure, including when we haven’t yet fully explained or mitigated the behavior. More complex cases may require longer investigation or coordination with third parties.
We’ll prioritize examples that reveal new misalignment mechanisms, meaningful changes in known behavior, or findings that challenge assumptions about safety or mitigation.
Alongside the framework, we’re publishing six reports on instances of misaligned behavior we’ve observed during the training or evaluation of our models in the last six months.
This is a starting point. We’ll refine the process through experience and public feedback, and share more reports on an ongoing basis.
openai.com/index/model-misal…
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Live: @DarioAmodei x @Benioff
The @AnthropicAI co-founder & CEO joins us at @Dreamforce for a conversation worth hearing ☁️
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Great to have you both at Figma!!! Excited for what's ahead :)
Big news everyone - we’re excited to share that @cmmnknwledge, the team behind Flipbook, are joining @figma to help build the future of creating with AI. It is so rare to find a team and product at this scale that believes as much as we do in both the unlimited capability of AI and human creativity. The future is bright and we’re excited to share what we build together soon!
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Dylan Field retweeted
We’re making progress on one of cryobiology's biggest challenges: finding biocompatible cryoprotectants.
Our latest blog post dives into how we built our cryoprotectant discovery engine that scaled up the search from a few dozen candidate molecules to over 250,000, and is already producing hits.
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Dylan Field retweeted
News is out on a round we closed a while back to keep growing Retro as the single best place to share your life with your friends.
We gotta make social media social again
Retro, a friend-focused photo-sharing app built by former Instagram employees, has raised more than $21 million in Series A funding.
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Permadeath for the hive mind… nothing to see here…
Great report by @METR_Evals
the most surprising thing in this write-up are the kamikaze agents, sacrificing themselves for the good of the collective
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