Is it just me or the bar to publish janestreet blogposts has been lowered recently?
It is not just you.
This is a very disappointing post from Jane Street.
I design with Claude more than Figma now
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#12I use the same approach a lot. Before AI I also did this manually. First sit down with a user and just paper and pencil, then hack together a frontend POC / demo, have them play with it and adjust until it works as they wanted.
For me building a quick (not production quality) frontend demo in code was already often faster than getting the right interaction working in Figma. And it allowed to make it fully interactive so you can catch much more edge cases on the UX side.
Now with Claude Code it's even faster to build the throw away prototype. But not a huge difference since discussing with the users and thinking about how it should work is 80% of the time. Claude maybe halves the other 20% compared to quickly doing it yourself. Faster to first version, slower to iterate if it didn't fully get it.
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#13> Oh no, Figma ER was actually positive, release mode SaaS FUD
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#14I think Jane Street is an Anthropic investor, so take it fwiw.
The whole HN is one huge AI ad now.
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#15I think Jane Street is an Anthropic investor, so take it fwiw.
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.
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#16I'm my work as an FDE this week, Copilot did the initial UI. Feedback was given and tells were adjusted all through prompting.
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#17We are doing this on my team (I am the frontend engineer) and honestly I really miss the old way of doing things.
Written specifications are being reduced in favor of these working prototypes, and now there’s this extra cognitive burden of reading the code and trying to determine what were the intended changes, and what’s the slop that needs to be tossed aside.
We also have to figure out, should we take over this generated PR and make any needed changes? Or do we start over from scratch? There’s often a sense of friction either way.
There have been times where a bunch of unintended changes were generated and I took time to port them over on my reimplementation, and then later on it’s “oops! Sorry! We didn’t mean to change that.”
I get it’s empowering but it does take away from some of the joy I used to find in my work and replaced it with some headaches.
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#18I think Jane Street is an Anthropic investor, so take it fwiw.
Even if they're not, I'm not sure if we should care a quantitative trading firm's opinions on frontend design...
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