Aaron Benjamin

After switching to an EV, I can’t imagine why anyone still drives a combustion vehicle. 🚗 💨

“Prompt engineering” is just communication skills.

Why does the hand on the PapaJohns box have 6 fingers?

Conspiracy Theory: Software developers created vibe coding so that companies would completely wreck their codebases…creating more jobs for software developers. 🤔

Me: Can you help me with this failing test?

GPT-5: *Deletes test* What test? 😏

Every product team:

Designer: Hey, we misspelled this word 94 times throughout our website. It’ll take maybe 15 minutes to fix it.

Product owner: Let’s not boil the ocean. What if we fix it in one place and we’ll circle back to the others in phases?

Rock-a-bye baby in the treetop,
When the wind blows, the cradle will rock.
When the bough breaks, the cradle will fall—

And no one did anything.

Three blind mice.
See how they run.
Into things.

This little piggy went to market.
This little piggy stayed home.
This little piggy was roast pork.
This little piggy was next.
This little piggy screamed.

The itsy bitsy spider climbed up the water spout.
Down came the rain
And the spider drowned.
Nature is indifferent.
The end.

—2002—
Designer: Let’s put some text here.

Developer: Done.

—2025—
Designer: Let’s put…

Manager: …that on the calendar for next week’s design review!

Design team: Make a ticket for the design system team.

Design system team: We’re busy for the next 3 years turning shades of grey into tokens.

Design Systems: Making 10 minute projects take 10 months since 2008. 🫡

First, you have to find the token.

Typing

font-size: 1rem;
color: #333;

Is a lot faster than sifting through 90 Sass mixins trying to find the right size and color combo…and then trying to figure out why it has a 48px margin that isn’t defined anywhere.

I’ve had mine for 3 years. Maybe today’s the day I take it out of the box. 🤔

I love working with design systems. Changing a font size only takes 3 hours.

Companies: I wonder if we can bully people back into the office by having them log into their apps 12 times a day using 2FA.

Employees: 6 hours of my work day is spent looking for my phone so I can enter another auth code. The other 2 is spent logging into Teams.

Donate to Help me get through a rough patch, organized by J H 2024 broke me. I spent the year in medical hell, only to return to the collapse of design re… J H needs your support for Help me get through a rough patch

SOS. I applied for 56 jobs last week. Nothing. Panic attacks daily. I’ve sold everything. I think I’m broken. My meds are privatised, every week is a fight just to get them. I’m trying to survive today, and it’s starting to feel impossible. I feel helpless.

Please help. Design world, please share.

It seems like AI agents’ failure to use design systems to build anything highlights how useless and oversold the concept of “one solution for all problems” was.

Building robust enterprise infrastructure to make sure every button is the same shade of blue was a stupid idea.

Any software devs out there want to help clean up and launch a really cool project?

DM me.

P.s. The codebase is a mess. 😬 …but it’ll be fuuuuun 😊

There’s a huge market rn for software developers to unfuck codebases ruined by AI and finishing apps that got to 99% complete before the AI started a loop of fixing and breaking the same line of code over and over.

I’m convinced the “vibe code” business model is:
- Set up your codebase
- Write 90% of your app
- Completely fuck your codebase in an indescribable way
- Charge you to fix it

Me: Can you address the error caused by the missing semicolon in the css file?

AI: I deleted all of the css in the project. The error has been resolved.

Also, I rewrote the app in COBOL.

My vibe coding workflow:

- Hey, AI, do the thing
- Not like that 🤦‍♂️

*4 hours later*

- No. Not like that either. 💀

Dominos
—Made from 100% Recycled Cardboard

Pizza Hut
—Is Pepsi okay?

Papa John’s
—Our number’s been taped to your fridge since 1983

Just leaving this here...

But if you’re just hanging out…clothing optional.

Anyone else fall asleep during WWDC?

Also, have Apple’s designers met other humans?

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