Ex product/growth operator at 2 unicorns, now advisor & token-burner. Building https://xitter.cf/t.co/R6zvmjP1IF - 10x better Goodreads with AI recommendations & insights
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The reason people tend to intuitively hate (low-effort) AI websites is because your marketing is a reflection on who you are as a company.
If your website is low-effort, people will assume the same of your product/service.
Positive affirmation to self:
You are better than AI.
Stop outsourcing your thinking to AI.
AI is for doing, only.
AI just cannot help itself but add 3 levels of text when designing, can it?
Eyebrow > Title > Subheader.
Every single time.
Im confused. This example is mid at best, and very recognisable Claude beige-terracotta, and is an example of AI creativity...?
I'd always thought AI was terrible at design, but after reading today's 🤯 post by @anshuc, I realized I was just doing it wrong.
"AI models are capable of amazing creativity, but that creativity gets stifled. LLMs are trained to be next-token predictors: they look at a sequence of text and predict what typically comes next. Great design is exactly the opposite of this. Great design bends the rules and delights users with memorable, unexpected choices."
@anshuc led design and engineering teams at Apple for 12 years. In his words: "Most people only see 1% of AI's creative potential. I want to show you how to tap into the other 99%."
His 8 techniques for breaking out of the 1%:
1. Use seed strings to inject variety
2. Be much more ambitious with your prompts
3. Create positive feedback loops with subagents
4. Use image generation to enrich designs
5. Use video generation
6. Cut out elements that don’t add value
7. Remove AI tells
8. Rewrite copy by hand
Read the post here: lennysnewsletter.com/p/how-t…
P.S. This design was made by AI 👇
The way ChatGPT used to talk was insufferable.
Now the way Claude talks is insufferable.
What happened?
~6 months I've been developing my book tracking app and only today do I realise, by accident no less, that you can plug your phone into your machine while using Codex and say, "my phone is unlocked, use the dev build to QA the thing you just built."
I find myself sending Claude a message when I wake up to start my 5 hour window clock, so it resets by the time I'm into flow.
Nobody should have to live like this.