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Their wordsI don't like to just create one sweeping prompt to do everything cuz then I have to go back and tweak it and troubleshoot and debug it and all that sort of stuff.
Their wordsit's like the last 20% of building an app with AI is like 80% of your time.
Their wordsyou have to know what you should do, right? And then you have to be able to describe how you should do it. You go through many iterations, of course. Like it rarely gets it right the first time.
Their wordsI could tell Claude exactly what I want as long as I know how to describe it and it'll actually output that. It may not output it the first time or the second time or the third time, but it'll eventually get there.
Their wordsI feel like it's much easier to copy a tool one-for-one than like start with a blank slate, you know, from scratch and then like have to think through all these edge cases
Their wordsSo, there it's like you do have to have some knowledge in order to get over some of those obstacles.
Their wordsit's very good at like kind of ranking your options of being like, hey, here's like the lowest risk like least expensive option.
Their wordsyou have to use Claude as like a companion, right? That's like it may know stuff that you don't know. It may think of things that you might not think of, right?
Our reading
It is really difficult not to over-engineer when AI tools put the world at a designer's fingertips.
Their wordsyou're a designer but you have like the world at your fingertips with these apps. Like you can do anything. It's really difficult not to over-engineer.
Their wordsthat's where it comes down to taste and judgment and like all the things you hear about like that are obviously significant when building products and the things that are going to separate good products from bad.
Their wordsIt can be overdone. Yeah, you have to be you have to be I think selective with when you do it and also give the option to turn it off, I think.
Their wordsIt's just helpful to be able to really quickly see all these things side by side and have it in in one file.
Their wordsit's so evident we're just all all of us, regardless of how experienced you are, are just scratching the surface of this thing and still figuring out how to like use everything at our disposal.
Their wordsthe most patient collaborator that you could ever have that builds at such hyper speeds that like humans could ever build at. And you just have to like know how to direct it. And also like taste and judgment, not only in like what to build, but like how to go about it down to just like the finite UX UI decisions.
Our reading
AI tools in the hands of a designer with good taste and good judgment are remarkably powerful.
Their wordsI feel like these tools in the hand of of a designer and someone with good taste and good judgment is just crazy. Like it it really is crazy.
Their wordsI don't think that AI is it's still not good at design, but it's good at taking direction. And as long as you can direct it clearly and you know what you're doing and you're making the right decisions.