Mentioned
Topics Discussed
- Large Language Models (LLMs) vs other AI technologies
- The rapid standardization of AI interface patterns
- AI tools in designers' current workflows
- Multi-shot prompts and agentic systems
- The tension between "prompts vs pixels" in product development
- How AI is changing the designer's role
- The new "industrial revolution" we're experiencing with AI
Pull Quotes
- "Most AI researchers believe that the AI models have already reached 100% scouring of the web, right? So anything that's public is probably in those foundational models, which means they're not really going to grow much in the next five years." –Brian
- "It will make the most basic patterns. It will pull the most basic stuff... But what it won't do is it won't make it interesting." –Joe
- "I was a little bit stunned by how quickly that locked into amber... that they're all chat-based interfaces. They all use magic wands or sparkles or something." –Joe
- "A society that prioritizes productivity is a society without imagination... if the goal is to just get the data as fast as possible to do things better and faster, you are saving time for what?" –Joe
- "This is a new enlightenment. This is a new industrial revolution... Everything is changing." –Joe
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