Product & Design. Previously led design at Asana & Google (Lens, Search, Maps, Ads, and more). A designer's job is to represent the diversity of the world.
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Taste isn't just knowing what to do. It's knowing what not to do.
Every time I design something with an LLM I spend so much time removing unnecessary elements. Claude, can you remove the badges? Can you remove that gradient? Can you remove the extra button? Etc.
The machine will learn eventually, but we aren't there yet. The latest models still overdo it.
Now that I have a new site, I've got a place for my random coding experiments. Here's a visualization of the Collatz conjecture.
Pick any positive whole number. If it's odd, triple it and add one. If it's even, cut it in half. Repeat until you reach 1.
27 takes 111 steps and climbs as high as 9,232 on the way. 28 takes 18.
Every number anyone has checked finds its way back to 1, but no one has proved they all do.
gethyper.com/2026-10-08-coll…
Lately I spend most of my time in GitHub Copilot and much less in individual apps. That shift creates two challenges for app builders:
1. Determining whether your app can stand on its own as a harness.
If your app isn't a harness, you can assume it will mostly be used inside another harness. If it is a harness, you need to explain to users why it's the right destination for their tasks. A full-screen experience may not be enough to justify dedicated use of your app.
2. Staying relevant to your users inside another harness.
It's only going to get easier for LLMs to build apps on demand and potentially copy what you've developed. Even an app that becomes a harness will lose some of its usage to other harnesses. So what is your app's identity, and how do users stay connected to it when you don't control the entire experience? Should your app become an agent that users call on by name, or will it be just another tool the harness picks from?
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My wishes for the planet in 2024: No killing. No killing. Don't kill anyone, anywhere, for any reason. –S.R.
