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you don’t need to read the story. you can literally just watch his video to listen to the calls.

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Saw a commentary earlier today about a big shift in super bowl commercials this year: they weren’t beer ads made for average american consumers; they were AI ads targeting bosses.

"It's such a fine line between stupid and clever" is so comedically perfect. Just recently dawned on me it's also a meta level statement of intent for the whole movie.

This time of year reminds me of another to add to the party list: deleting emails that never seem to obey (or sometimes multiply faster than) “unsubscribe”.

On a mac you should be able to have different scroll settings for mouse and trackpad. "Natural scrolling" makes perfect sense on the trackpad. It's ridiculous on a scroll wheel; the existing pattern is as old as the mouse itself. Feels like swapping the brake and accelerator pedals on your car.

Related, why was there never a single episode where he said "I pity the tool" while fixing/fabricating something. I guess the montages didn't have dialogue, but still.

Most everyone thinks that innovative ideas come from a lone genius (and not from deep understanding of the people experiencing the problem you want to solve), which is why businesses gets frustrated with designers. The business wants an answer, but the designer gives them questions.

This is the key fact about innovation I've never personally seen anyone understand. By default ppl assume big ideas come from a lone genius. Absent of that, they think it's groups in a room "brainstorming" or...and this is MUCH worse...from getting users to design for you.

Is this loss?

They hadn't experienced a review yet to know, but they definitely sounded like they were in a ransom video. "AI isn't coming. It's here. Let's. Embrace...it." I would def be interested to see how the Q1 perf review went.

No, just anecdotal, someone from there speaking at a recent conference.

If you need more, I don't work there but glassdoor is making this part of performance reviews.

This is almost purposely missing the point, which is that LLMs are better than nothing for many people (people with no access to good healthcare). It's essentially a better version of WebMD. Not a dr replacement, just better than nothing.

LI product mgmt poasters are chopped. They're really uploading maturity frameworks that start with "using AI for productivity" and end with "shipping AI features that add a new higher pricing tier to your service" but skip "discovering customer need that can be met with AI".

This is exactly my thought when wondering why people accept that LLMs disguise guesses as fact and sometimes outright lie...they accept it in public figures, too. It's the zeitgeist. Being objectively but confidently wrong is just "in" right now.

THIS right here is a point I don't see made enough. It's why I let go of the subscription. Millions of titles and I can only ever see 50 of them without getting a VPN? Just a wild product decision.

Digital design community fussing about titles once again. I use it to mark the changing of the seasons, lest the evergreen problems of stakeholders running on assumptions and devs underestimating effort make me forget that time is passing.

UX Designers that worked for me wanted badly to change their title to Product Design bc UX was starting to mean UI in the industry. I said this was wasted effort; soon enough the same thing will happen w that title. Next company I went to, all of the "product" designers...were UI designers.

Isn't this person is claiming to do the opposite of what you describe? They design to be art not science; they want designers to be recognized as creatures of magic that can't be automated.

I also think it's on engineering to make their systems generally extensible. I think back to Walmart's covid era ability to make an order pickup app in "four days"...that was rly engineering's self-directed multi-year process to rebuild a flexible codebase for unforeseen landscape changes.

The abandonment of this US promise is so insane, how on earth has this been absent from discourse bka everyone's talking points.

Agree. Just like waffle house has done with the menu stickers showing the egg surcharge.

This design systems point 🔥🔥🔥

Wall Street bets discord is so goddamn funny right now

Prob all the same people wanting the Fair Tax, too.

"Fully funded by the government" and put in place by...a Republican president and congress.

Or they trust Must and Trump more than the federal government that takes their tax money and gives it to other countries. In fact, they don't care if those two are lining their pockets bc they perceive gov't will be much better off with the rank and file corruption removed.

It's so funny to me how feverish people get about government waste. I always think, "wait til they see how companies are run."

I used to think standing on shoulders of giants like Dan as I pushed the value of UX process in smaller orgs would mean the work of selling would one day be done. I didn't consider the whole discipline would cycle back to fighting for basics again, but maybe that's the natural order.