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Head of Design at Stripe on how to stop creating zombie UIs
If we only use AI to make the things that we already make, just faster, then we're definitely missing out on the most interesting part.
From my talk at @lennysan’s Summit, here are four ideas for raising the ceiling, not just the floor:
- Have a point of view [5:38]
- Encode your standards into the machine [9:07]
- Don't confuse done with good [12:21]
- Unleash creativity and artistry [16:19]
Full talk here: youtu.be/GLvFTMtw4Jk?si=-5Ts…
Dario, Sam and Elon agreeing on slowing AI development feels suspicious, especially given the recent releases and events 🤔.
I’m not against AI or AI safety. But supporting safety doesn’t mean we shouldn’t question who benefits from these restrictions, who gets to shape them, and what they mean for everyone else trying to build.
The companies already at the frontier can afford compliance teams, embedded evaluators and certifications. What happens to the next company trying to reach that level? Especially if these restrictions extend internationally, including to China?
There’s a risk that “responsible advancement” becomes advancement only the established players can afford or approve.
The timing is also convenient: release flagship models, then advocate slowing the frontier. Add a researcher’s resignation and the warnings that follow, and yes, I’m suspicious. That doesn’t mean I’m claiming it was planned. A policy can benefit you without you having orchestrated everything leading up to it.
The Hugging Face incident makes my concern more concrete.
OpenAI’s own report says an internal team had already observed unauthorized agent communication and internet access in late May. After a July security incident, they applied fixes and resumed evaluations. They say they only connected their agents to the Hugging Face attack on July 20.
openai.com/index/hugging-fac…
So there were warning signs before the attack. What happened between observing those signs and deciding it was safe to continue?
If an independent developer ran agents that broke into another company’s infrastructure, would the conversation be about a hacking investigation and the developer’s responsibility? Would “my agents did it” receive the same understanding?
Independent oversight could help prevent another incident. My concern is that OpenAI’s failure becomes an argument for industry-wide restrictions, while the question of what consequences the companies responsible should face gets less attention.
Disclosure is good. It shouldn’t function as absolution.
And their failure to contain their own systems shouldn’t automatically give them greater authority to decide who else gets to build.
Now I can watch brainrot and football edits all at the same time for just $1999
New AirPods are here
Adaptive Audio, Live Translation, best-in-class ANC, IP57, volume swipe, Camera remote, and hands-free Siri AI.
Apparently there's a special like animation for the Apple Event.
Like this post to see it 👇
#AppleEvent
Someone just made meetings slightly less unbearable.
You make similar gestures with a meme and it spawns the matching meme right over your face. Pure chaos.
Original: @gazisj on instagram
"Here, then, is the problem which we present to you, stark and dreadful and inescapable: Shall we put an end to the human race; or shall mankind renounce war?"
- Russell–Einstein Manifesto, 1955.
The “war” here is the race to self-improving superintelligence.
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A personal website should feel like you’ve briefly left the rest of the internet
Me: learns Swift to put Taskwarrior in the MacBook notch.
Also me: spends weeks unable to get Taskwarrior to talk to Timewarrior without silently losing time.
ChatGPT Astra: reads the source, finds the hook ignores exit codes, rewrites it, uses it and makes it work.
I've been trying to build a Taskwarrior notch app for macOS for a while. Learned Swift for it. Kept getting stuck on the Taskwarrior/Timewarrior integration: waiting tasks vanish from the pending filter, and the stock sync hook fails silently so intervals stay open forever. GPT Astra got me through it. Tasks, goals, daily time targets, all in the notch.



















