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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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Post by risyachka »

vasco wrote: post #97
chvid wrote: post #88

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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…

Taking it slow with paper and interviews works if you think about what you're doing. The other option now is shut down brain and press the slot machine lever one more time. One of the designs has got to be good soon.

This. LLMs helping implement many ideas is a curse and the results speak for themselves.

As a non-designer I want to see a thought through 1-2 ideas, not 10 ideas you coded with llm and now the burden of thinking which one is better and why is for some reason is on me.

Re: I design with Claude more than Figma now

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Post by iLoveOncall »

> Having joined Jane Street this past summer, I’m finding AI support indispensable. There’s just so much that’s new to me, and so much I’m not good at yet, like OCaml and Bonsai.

Using AI for things you aren't good at, or not experienced with, is literally the worst way to use AI. You WANT to struggle when learning a new language, and use reliable documentation to solve your problems, not circumvent them entirely by using AI.

This is extreme incompetence, I'm shocked that Jane Street would advertise it.

Re: I design with Claude more than Figma now

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Post by faku578 »

l23k4 wrote: post #94
SanjayMehta wrote: post #93

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https://dataintellect.com/blog/sebi-vs-jane-street-index-man...

And here's some rather more clueful analysis instead of what looks like AI-generated marketing blogspam: https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/newsletters/2025-07-07/jan... ( https://archive.fo/0PQ2E )

That bloomberg which spread fake news about india selling gold which it had to retreat. I will sbi over foreign news peddlers.

Re: I design with Claude more than Figma now

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Post by donbox »

benced wrote: post #40
karolist wrote: post #15

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With a huge pile of salt > In July 2025, the Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) alleged that Jane Street used multiple entities for market manipulation and barred it from accessing the market.

Anyone with knowledge of Indian regulatory culture would not take this as dispositive.

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Re: I design with Claude more than Figma now

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Post by josephg »

mattmanser wrote: post #99
JumpCrisscross wrote: post #84

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> 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…

That era is already long gone. Those things have been built in Wix for over a decade. And since then, I haven't had any friends or family ask me for a simple site. The low-value work is already automated. Your comment is valid, but not for the reason you think. What you should be talking about is the grunt work done in our field to non-trivial applications. Adding a search box to a table, or add an extra field to a f…

> That era is already long gone. Those things have been built in Wix for over a decade.

I think there's still a lot more custom work than you'd expect. A recent example: My mum is ex-president of a small international NGO. When I visited earlier today, she was bemoaning how the lady who runs their NGO's website charges them an arm and a leg for small changes. As a result, the website is constantly out of date. The current site is entirely built on top of wordpress. There is, of course, politics. This lady holds the login credentials to everything. And she holds them close to her chest.

I showed my mum what we could do with claude design. Claude whipped up a much better looking, working version of (part) of the website in about 5 minutes. I think LLMs aren't quite at the point that my mum could manage the website herself. You do need a little technical knowledge. My mum just doesn't know what to ask for. But we're really close. I've offered to be a human frontend to LLMs for them going forward, if she can wrest control from the "webmaster".

I suspect conversations like this are happening everywhere at the moment. There are an incredible number of small websites out there. Most of them, claude or chatgpt could reimplement in 5 minutes tops.

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