Dhvani retweeted
As you invite more agents to our work, and create software factories to be more productive than ever, you’ll soon outsource everything to an agent, even the thinking.
The work you will do will feel frictionless, it will feel amazing on the surface, but once you go a bit deeper, it’ll feel extremely shallow. It won’t reflect the struggles you went through, your decisions, and ideas.
It will no longer remind you of you and the work you aspire to.
You will turn into just another extremely efficient producer of things, but not a creator like you were before.
Invite friction to your work.
It's more about choosing the right option from the suggestions is where the "taste" comes in.
Figma's Dylan Field says our definition of "slop" keeps silently moving:
"I said, 'AI will lower the floor and raise the ceiling.' And I had to correct myself, because actually that's not what we're seeing yet."
"We're seeing it lower the floor. It's more democratized to do something. But the ceiling doesn't seem to have changed."
"Anything you can verify, AI's great at. Math being number one, maybe cybersecurity number two... You get five designers in a room, they can't agree all the time on exactly what they should do. And that's what's interesting about design. There is not one solution."
"A lot of the stuff that we call slop wouldn't be stuff we'd call slop a month ago or two months ago. As the models change, our definition of slop changes."
"The craft that you imbue into something is reflective of your thinking. It's reflective of your care. People pick up on it. Whether they can articulate it or not, they can tell."
"It creates a lower bound that you have to exceed, but it doesn't define the upper bound. You define the ceiling."
@zoink w/ @sophiadew on @MTSLive
well said...
Saying software is dead because anyone can build it is like saying photography is dead now that everyone in the world has a camera in their pocket
Not only is it not dead it's the beginning of the Kodak Brownie moment for software, and we will see an absolute explosion of it
It will be the first generation for who building software will feel no different than using it. This is crazy!
The quality and bar of what we expect from our everyday apps will be raised dramatically, we'll have personal software, we'll have disposable software, and agents will be the foundation for most of it
Tech has always been chaotic and evolving, the people who have been able to adapt and move in front of new opportunities have always excelled, this is nothing new, I'm seeing it now and we'll see it 10 years from now
Find the opportunities in the chaose and disruption, there are countless of them
















