i don't think the quality of AI design is currently better than humans, but when you get used to eval-driven design, ephemeral contextual design tools, and the insane things agents do to verify design, the future is very plain to see evals, ephemeral tools & verification. these
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A conversation with Brad Frost about AI, music, tool worship, and learning to trust your ear again when the ground moves under your feet.
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If our design specs only tell models what the interface is made of, they have already forgotten what the interface is for
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The stories we tell about technology don't describe reality: they create it. The question isn't where AI is going — it's where we're pointing it.
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20 terminal panes. 5 agents per project. Infinite research reports and ASCII diagrams. My agents have a lot to say to me — they just need a better way to say it.
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The best moments playing music are when your soul just knows what to do. I've been trying to build technology that feels like that — and a 16-year-overdue conversation with Brad Frost is where it all clicked
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Licklider said 85% of his thinking time was spent getting into position to think. Ten years ago I said designers shouldn't have to drag rectangles. Now? Ideas go in and prototypes come out. Everything just gets built.
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I run on energy and sparkles. The specific cruelty of the old way wasn't just that it was slow — it was draining. Here's what changed.
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It's giving end of the training montage. The LinnDrums & Junos fade — the heroine emerges. She knows what to do, even if she was recently doubting her powers.
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The fundamental duality that runs through my life: artist and technologist, human and machine, sacred and profane. This is what it looks like to dance with the wind instead of against it.
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The satisfying sound of my fabric scissors cutting through a beautiful material. So much of the peace in my life recently has come from fiber arts — and I think that means something.
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In about 3 months it's going to be unfathomable that for the entirety of the holocene, knowledge was transferred in ways other than the best way for each individual to learn.
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Computers as we know them are impossibly distracting. Focus blockers are like having your hand caught in a table saw and asking for a bandaid. What if the whole paradigm is wrong?
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I tripped, fell down a rabbit hole, and unexpectedly found myself in some of the most exciting circles I can remember. In every direction: kind, visionary geniuses.
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Streaming is a broken model and I don't want to center my distribution around it. Here's what I'm learning about releasing music independently.
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