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Their wordsI think that like some of the more perceived boring things are just so critical. And I think it's and and so useful and so impactful.
Their wordsThese are still human beings that are ultimately using the system and if it's designed really well they'll use it more. They'll they'll they'll use it more efficiently. They'll think more positively about it. They'll trust it more and they'll become your advocate.
Their wordsit's questioning those things like what could make this better? How could this be different but not just for a different sake? And I think we ask that question all the time.
Their wordsYou don't have to debate an idea. prioritize it, get approval, assign a team just to learn if your idea is any good. You build it and then you decide.
Their wordsI don't think it means that we're going to make the same amount of software faster. I think what it really means is we're just going to make way more software.
Their wordsjust making something and then making something permanent are two really different decisions. I think that like that's just a big distinction is that we're just going to have we have this abundance. We need to figure out what what lasts.
Their wordsI think it was more just around I need to find some folks that really care about the work and wanting to get better. like no egos.
Their wordsI don't think I need more than what I have today, which is myself and four designers. I really don't. I think that the level of horsepower that we have, not just because of the people, but because of the tools and the people and our culture and our product, I feel like that is ample.
Their wordsif I hire all the same archetype, like we all care about the same things, that's great. It's really great, but like no one's going to really improve as much as maybe you want. Plus, you're going to have gaps.
Their wordsI think our tendency here is to share it really early and to share it really often.
Their wordsAnd sometimes not even being so polite about it cuz that's, you know, I think how you get taught to be polite in critique. It's just like you try to make it their idea. You try to suggest things. It's just like, "No, man. Just tell me what's wrong with it.
Their wordsIf you're not shipping software now, you're behind. I just want to at least be at the forefront. I don't have to have a crystal ball and be out ahead of it so much.
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AI is a much different shape of design tool from those before it, but it is still a design tool.
Their wordsThis tool is just accelerating much faster and it's just a a much different shape than the design tools cuz the design tools have all kind of been same but different. This is a much different design tool but to me it's still a design tool.
Their words95% of it is going to be shitty, right? So and shitty software is easy to deal with. It just goes away because it's bad.
Their wordsI fear for like the managers who are not deep in IC work or like capable of good IC work because I think that there's not going to be a lot of middle management. I think it's going to be managers who build just like IC's