So much of the work in a company is dealing with human stuff. The "we shouldn't do X because stakeholder Y has been advocating against it and it's not the right battle to fight right now" kind of stuff. Or the "if we do Y then we will need to wait 9 months for the security team to approve it" stuff.
Honestly it would be good for us to get off screens.
I'm hoping AI slop is the thing that finally breaks the hold social media has on us
Tbh it's working well
At this point I've told my engineers I just assume they're magicians who can do anything I dream of and start from there
At this point I'm about to go back to brute-force prototyping and just mock up my hover states as new screens because this is ridiculous
@figma.com WHY please dear lord why
I can tell it's trying to do a lot of smart things but it's just unbelievably fucking broken and I've just spent the last HOUR trying to make literally the simplest hover state not be horrendously broken
Literally about to cry at work for the first time in years because of the new figma prototyping. Not in a good way.
I have not been this frustrated at my work tools since fucking adobe illustrator
I guess my beef is with (venture?) capitalism, but I wish more great products could just become great and then rest on their laurels for years, only changing when it was actually required
I do this on a sentence level! Not even for full paragraphs.
It's especially helpful for UX copy and help text etc; stuff where you want it to be as boring and obvious as possible.
then by looking at those versions, I'll always be able to cobble together a way better final version of the copy.
I find chatgpt extremely useful for copy writing - but in a few very specific ways only. Basically, if I'm already sure what I want to say, and I've drafted a version of it, but it's not feeling super clear - I'll ask chatgpt to rewrite it 10 times
Wow... I hate it
Thousand Islands Dressing is the perfect example of consensus driven design. After each island of the thousand issued their veto, the remaining ingredients were ketchup and mayonnaise.
fascinating that #AI is impacting the job market in this way - not directly taking our jobs, but clouding the #recruiting process so much that real candidates aren't getting through, and hirers are resorting to personal networks to solve it.
I think some of this might explain at least some part of the many reddit threads of experienced tech people who have applied to hundreds of jobs with zero luck.
and if you're a real applicant whose resume is a 9/10, you might have been pushed way down the list by these 400 fake applicants.
it seems to me like the obvious journey a hirer would go on would be that by the time you've wasted an hour interviewing your 2nd or 3rd creepy deepfake candidate, you pull the ad off LinkedIn and go directly to recruiting via network.
therefore making it even harder to break in
and at the same time, reddit is absolutely full of designers and engineers who are finding it seemingly impossible to find a job.
I wonder how much this is contributing to that situation?
absolutely fascinated by this!
in the recent hiring we have been doing, I was totally shocked to hear at least 3 of the first set of candidates were some kind of deep fake / totally fake candidate / phishing scam.
www.pindrop.com/article/targ...
As @ezraklein.bsky.social said, writing itself is the process of thinking.
If we lose the ability to write, we're losing the ability to think.
I see it in others - leaders who want to land on the first, obvious answer and move on instantly - but I also feel the urge towards it in myself... I'll have an idea that begs deeper thought & there's a temptation to run to chatgpt, blurt out a braindump and ask it to clarify the thinking for me
Does anyone else feel like the trend over the last few years is towards less and less deep thought?
Specifically driven by ai and short form social media
This is so cool!
My latest piece in @wired.com is about the dangers of driver distraction. Motorists in most new cars are almost forced to use touchscreens when in motion. This is finally coming to an end. www.wired.com/story/why-ca...
This story explains a LOT of things: ChatGPT appears to be rooting on sociopathic mental illness by validating every delusion of grandeur.
It also explains, in part, the hype cycle around AI: rich people, addicted to praise, invented a Compliment Machine.
www.garbageday.email/p/this-is-wh...
I think, in a world where #chatgpt exists, teachers are going to need to ask more interesting questions.
But how much original thought is possible (or needed!) when the exam question asked is "what is XYZ"?
Then he makes the point that writing is valuable because it expresses your OWN thoughts, and that's more interesting and valuable than just facts spat out of an LLM.
He gives the example of a basic exam question, "what is XYZ". And the students who all cut and paste the answer from chatgpt.
