Kris Puckett
Design manager at Stripe, who previously led design at Mercury and designed for Dropbox and Facebook.
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Fleshed-out plans and perfect spec or PRD docs are not needed to get Claude Code started working.
Their wordsI don't need to have fleshed out plans. I don't need to actually have like the perfect spec docs or PRD docs to get Cloud Code to start working
↗Kris Puckett - Becoming an AI-native designeryoutube.com 1st of 20 in this recording
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Our reading
"I don't know" becomes a kind of superpower when you can work with Claude Code to figure things out.
Their wordsI don't know becomes kind of a superpower cuz I'm assuming I could work with Claude code to figure it out
↗Kris Puckett - Becoming an AI-native designeryoutube.com 2nd of 20 in this recording
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Their wordsLLMs are going to hallucinate like crazy, going to make stuff up.
↗Kris Puckett - Becoming an AI-native designeryoutube.com 3rd of 20 in this recording
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Their wordsThere are other massive unlocks to me for AI around workflows, around like how whether it's content design, things that you wouldn't see, organization, like analysis. So these Claude code skills, you can I mean you can create anything that's repeatable pattern. You can create a Claude code skill for.
↗Kris Puckett - Becoming an AI-native designeryoutube.com 4th of 20 in this recording
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Our reading
People have more repeatable patterns than they think; they are just not great at identifying them.
Their wordsI think a lot of times we don't think we've got repeatable patterns. We do, we're just not great at identifying them.
↗Kris Puckett - Becoming an AI-native designeryoutube.com 5th of 20 in this recording
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Their wordsat their core LLMs are just pattern matching and so they are fantastic at very quickly identifying patterns that even though the human brain is an unbelievable like the greatest pattern matcher in history, we still have these gaps. And so you can use AI to become this mirror that's like reflecting back at you some things that you might be missing about yourself and your work and where you're at.
↗Kris Puckett - Becoming an AI-native designeryoutube.com 6th of 20 in this recording
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Their wordsOne thing that LLMs I don't think do really well at is like creative exploration, but you can teach it to do divergent thinking very quickly.
↗Kris Puckett - Becoming an AI-native designeryoutube.com 7th of 20 in this recording
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Their wordsif you don't know where to start, you just start typing.
↗Kris Puckett - Becoming an AI-native designeryoutube.com 8th of 20 in this recording
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Their wordsThe more context you give it about your work and what you're trying to accomplish, the better the output will be.
↗Kris Puckett - Becoming an AI-native designeryoutube.com 9th of 20 in this recording
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Our reading
A skill is a set of repeatable, specific instructions that augments what Claude Code can do.
Their wordsall it is is it's a set of repeatable specific instructions that augments what Claude code can do.
↗Kris Puckett - Becoming an AI-native designeryoutube.com 10th of 20 in this recording
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Their wordschat surfaces are only going to be more and more prominent.
↗Kris Puckett - Becoming an AI-native designeryoutube.com 11th of 20 in this recording
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Their wordsSo AI native has to be beyond just like I made a really cool shader or I made this like dither effect that every other person is making.
↗Kris Puckett - Becoming an AI-native designeryoutube.com 12th of 20 in this recording
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Their wordsit's easy for us right now, I think, to have like, "Oh my gosh, we can just do all the things." And it's like, "Yeah, but is it worth doing? And do you feel proud of the output itself?
↗Kris Puckett - Becoming an AI-native designeryoutube.com 13th of 20 in this recording
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Their wordsMCPs are they're not going anywhere. Anyone who says an MCP is dead is like, that's hype. Like that's crazy. But, they're going to change quite a bit and we're going to see a lot more companies leaning more and towards better semantic APIs and CLIs than they will an MCP
↗Kris Puckett - Becoming an AI-native designeryoutube.com 14th of 20 in this recording
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Their wordsthe context window, the window that the AI can hold and think gets filled up very quickly with an MCP.
↗Kris Puckett - Becoming an AI-native designeryoutube.com 15th of 20 in this recording
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Their wordsdo your products have an agentic focus to them? Or is everything readable by an agent because there's going to be a lot more agents doing the work for people. So you have to like think through that as a designer.
↗Kris Puckett - Becoming an AI-native designeryoutube.com 16th of 20 in this recording
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Their wordsyou have to demonstrate that you understand these systems and you're like you're actually building something with them. Whether it is like another shader plugin system, just do something with it to see and explore and be able to to talk to it and like talk through the process.
↗Kris Puckett - Becoming an AI-native designeryoutube.com 17th of 20 in this recording
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Their wordsif your site is on Squarespace and it's a basic Squarespace template, you're probably going to get passed on even if the content's really good.
↗Kris Puckett - Becoming an AI-native designeryoutube.com 18th of 20 in this recording
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Their wordsthe bar is so high. Like everyone wants the same type of designer, the same shape of designer that if you're not using these tools to differentiate yourself a little bit like you are going to get left behind and that sucks.
↗Kris Puckett - Becoming an AI-native designeryoutube.com 19th of 20 in this recording
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Their wordsWe've had quality, we've had craft, but I think what people are going to be desperate for is more of that human side of things
↗Kris Puckett - Becoming an AI-native designeryoutube.com 20th of 20 in this recording