12 prompts and my weekly usage on the 5x Max plan is up :(
Are you sure? I looked at my Claude usage dashboard and design has its own usage bucket not tied to anything else.
Design usage shouldn't impact code usage.
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#772A lot of people here are saying this will never replace human creativity. It's difficult to know ahead of time which things AI (or more broadly, technology) will succeed at and which it will (for now) fail at. So it's good that people are trying to apply AI to everything: some things will fail, but some we expect will fail will not, and if we had followed our intuition we wouldn't have tried and never would have succeeded.
Semi-relevant XKCD: https://xkcd.com/1425/
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#773I reckon something like this has only been possible to develop because of how homogenous the internet has become in terms of design ever since the glass effect and drop-shadows took over in Web 2.0 and Twitter Bootstrap entered the scene. You'll get a competent UI with little effort but nothing truly unique or mind-blowing. Impressive technology, but that old skool artisanal weirdness of yore only becomes more valuab…
There's no shame in being homogenous and obvious, though. If I'm building out an internal tool for, say, a hospital lawyer to search through malpractice lawsuits, I want my tool to be the most familiar, obvious, least-surprising UI/UX possible. Just stay out of the way and do what it's supposed to do. The trick is, of course, that the human is still responsible for knowing when homogenous is fine, or when there's rea…
absolutely no shame, it's good engineering. it's not even about homogeneity, it's about recognizability and lowering cognitive load for your users who, let's face it, don't give a fuck about how hard you worked on the UI they just want to do what they need and return their attention to the 99% of stuff that is not-your-app. That's their normal.
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#775People often confuse UI with UX, LLMs are very often severely bad at UX.
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#777Earlier quoted context omitted.
Would you like your hammer to have a new and innovative design, or do you want it to look exactly like any other hammer? The majority of UIs exist for the user to perform a task as effectively as possible, and they benefit from being familiar.
> they benefit from being familiar . “Intuitive Equals Familiar,” a classic from Jef Raskin, the man who started the Macintosh¹ project at Apple: https://www.asktog.com/papers/raskinintuit.html ——— ¹ Only to have Steve take it away. Jef left and created the Canon Cat, an opinionated computer that eschewed the WIMP interface in favour of anchoring n incremental search. Steve would also leave and create NeXT, and Canon…
> Steve would also leave and create NeXT
More accurate to say that he was forced out. We (Mac nerds) were shocked when he came back. My father told me that I was super excited talking about his return, though I don't remember that. I do remember having a Mac Addict magazine with SJ portrayed as a priest on his return. Internet Archive ftw.[0]
0. https://ia601204.us.archive.org/BookReader/BookReaderImages....
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#778Huh
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#779The faster we commodify design the faster we can get back to some sane consistent normal interfaces. Only the very biggest platforms (e.g. Google, Microsoft, Apple) should be spending any time on "design systems". Imagine if a designer were hired to custom design the lightswitches in every building. We need to get back to off-the-shelf interfaces and stop wasting smart people's time reinventing UI widgets.
> Only the very biggest platforms (e.g. Google, Microsoft, Apple) should be spending any time on "design systems". Like what they have some superior knowledge or ability to design ? Let me remind you they weren't always tech giants, what if we said lets stop innovating before apple or any of these became a thing.
> Like what they have some superior knowledge or ability to design ?
No, but they have the scale where that level of specialty makes sense. McDonald's has food chemists on staff, but the local burger joint does not.
> what if we said lets stop innovating before apple or any of these became a thing
It's important for any organization to know what its competitive advantage is and where to spend its innovation tokens. D.R. Horton is the number one homebuilder in the United States, but they don't make their own light switches.
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#780The faster we commodify design the faster we can get back to some sane consistent normal interfaces. Only the very biggest platforms (e.g. Google, Microsoft, Apple) should be spending any time on "design systems". Imagine if a designer were hired to custom design the lightswitches in every building. We need to get back to off-the-shelf interfaces and stop wasting smart people's time reinventing UI widgets.
I think a big part of the reason AI is so divisive and only declining in popularity, is because much of the discourse is shaped by mid to senior career SWEs who fantasize about putting everyone who's not a mid to senior career SWE out of work. People who want to replace everything we like with streamlined slop and want everyone we love struggling to get by. Everyone is inessential except the guy who just sits there t…
Is AI declining in popularity? There are some surveys where people say they don't like AI, but datacenter construction and utilization tell a very different story.