Yea I mean okay JaneStreet. World wide renowned to be a tech design powerhouse...
I design with Claude more than Figma now
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Re: I design with Claude more than Figma now
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Free with an easy monthly payment of $20!
50 iterations on the Pro plan? You kidding?
50 iterations of CSS / layout? Easy, not even pushing it. A freelancer will cuss you out after 3-4 rounds of re-doing everything, but an LLM is happy to keep generating.
Re: I design with Claude more than Figma now
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The whole HN is one huge AI ad now.
I think AI programming just has a bliss period for a lot of people where it feels like you can solve every problem with a prompt. And you can, for a time. Eventually the chickens come home to roost and you realise what a mess you made. Give it some time. We’ll figure out what LLMs are good and bad at. I think vibe engineering will eventually go up on the wall next to static vs dynamic typing and vi vs eMacs. At least…
I think there’s a good chance low effort AI content and vibecoding effectively become an eternal September
Re: I design with Claude more than Figma now
#84Earlier quoted context omitted.
The whole HN is one huge AI ad now.
I think AI programming just has a bliss period for a lot of people where it feels like you can solve every problem with a prompt. And you can, for a time. Eventually the chickens come home to roost and you realise what a mess you made. Give it some time. We’ll figure out what LLMs are good and bad at. I think vibe engineering will eventually go up on the wall next to static vs dynamic typing and vi vs eMacs. At least…
> eventually the chickens come home to roost and you realise what a mess you made
But a lot of times they don't. Devs building websites for small businesses used to be a thing, and it was almost universally a crap product. Practically every restaurant in my small town has been able to take control of their own website with AI, and it's a better experience for everyone.
Rapid digitisation meant a lot of low-value work wound up being done by high-value people. The economy is pivoting away from that configuration. The high-value folks getting displaced are pissed, partly rightly, partly out of spite. The folks who had to pay those bills are ecstatic, mostly overexuberantly, but in part correctly.
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> I know some who bought during the IPO who are now underwater Yeah you don't say. High of $124, currently $22. But hey: that's ~~gambling~~ stock trading for you. https://au.finance.yahoo.com/quote/FIG/
No sympathy from me. I just wish it happened more to people who overpay for stuff like houses or Tesla stock.
> I just wish it happened more to people who overpay for stuff like houses or Tesla stock
That's pretty mean. I disagree with a lot of people on their investment choices and evangelism. That doesn't mean I want them to suffer for it.
Re: I design with Claude more than Figma now
#86Earlier quoted context omitted.
I think AI programming just has a bliss period for a lot of people where it feels like you can solve every problem with a prompt. And you can, for a time. Eventually the chickens come home to roost and you realise what a mess you made. Give it some time. We’ll figure out what LLMs are good and bad at. I think vibe engineering will eventually go up on the wall next to static vs dynamic typing and vi vs eMacs. At least…
> eventually the chickens come home to roost and you realise what a mess you made But a lot of times they don't. Devs building websites for small businesses used to be a thing, and it was almost universally a crap product. Practically every restaurant in my small town has been able to take control of their own website with AI, and it's a better experience for everyone. Rapid digitisation meant a lot of low-value work…
Until what they need is free or has a heavily subsidized cost.
We keep forgetting that
Re: I design with Claude more than Figma now
#87I think Jane Street is an Anthropic investor, so take it fwiw.
Maybe a random employees mildly interesting blog post is not exactly where we need to look for a psyop. But that is maybe what they want you to think.
Re: I design with Claude more than Figma now
#88I think Jane Street is an Anthropic investor, so take it fwiw.
As I understand Jane Street they have done great things for OCaml and they also do their own web framework (I guess that big money bin needs a lot of dashboards).
I think the designer here takes a wrong approach and sort of falls into engineer envy where he wants to make prototypes as deep and realistic as possible. And that is not really the most important part of the design job.
The most important thing is that the right thing gets build (why do we need a JSQL input box? what do we actually want? what are other ways to do this?). And this is often better done with pen and paper sketches, meetings, observation, discussions ... rather than too quickly narrowing on a particular design and spinning into discussions on whether buttons should be on the left or on the right, LLM intricacies etc.
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No sympathy from me. I just wish it happened more to people who overpay for stuff like houses or Tesla stock.
> I just wish it happened more to people who overpay for stuff like houses or Tesla stock That's pretty mean. I disagree with a lot of people on their investment choices and evangelism. That doesn't mean I want them to suffer for it.
It’s not that I want them to suffer, it’s that them being rewarded incentivizes suboptimal behavior and outcomes. Markets don’t work anymore. Which results in even more suffering.
Re: I design with Claude more than Figma now
#90Earlier quoted context omitted.
> eventually the chickens come home to roost and you realise what a mess you made But a lot of times they don't. Devs building websites for small businesses used to be a thing, and it was almost universally a crap product. Practically every restaurant in my small town has been able to take control of their own website with AI, and it's a better experience for everyone. Rapid digitisation meant a lot of low-value work…
Until what they need is free or has a heavily subsidized cost. We keep forgetting that
I can use a local model to build a restaurant website. The model generates code fast enough that even my 10 year old server can generate all the code needed in about an hour. It will use about 50 cents of electricity and be better than 90% of the restaurant websites out there.