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I concur, seems that lately we’ve collectively forget about the KISS principle.

It's easy to forget that what's "simple" is a function of what tools we have. And our familiarity with them.

Not the OP, but here are my 2 CT’s on what is design:

Design is the process to you follow to solve a given problem/need/desire balancing the user needs with the business/tech constraints. The output could be a a digital UI, a physical object or an intangible process. But often people think about design just as the aesthetics of a product.

A common pattern is the Empathize (Research, Diverge), Define (Converge), Ideate (Diverge), Prototype (Converge), Test (and then iterate).

The main benefits come from the divergent phases: empathize and ideate. But it’s far too common already that some executive has an “illumination” of how something should be and just wants to build as is, without any research or validation.

They can use Claude Design (and similar) to just build a prototype of their first idea, skipping all the design process and end with something that looks good but doesn’t solve the problem adequately or fits the actual user needs/context.

Of course, LLMs are useful tools that can be used in the right way: to build better prototypes in less time, to synthesize research insights, to explore ideas…

Thing Ai^Ai. It might break the market.

Besides the article, I think a big issue for this would be the speed of the input-decision-act loop as it should be pretty fast and Claude would introduce a lot of latency in it.

Yep. It made me go check the date of publishing thinking it was published on 2023

I’ve recently started making bread, at the moment still with fresh or bakers yeast and planning to grow my own sourdough.

It’s not very niche, but as a hobby it’s pretty fulfilling. It allows for a lot of play, and you end with something tasty. Also, makes for a great small gift for friends and family.

I make most of my bread with sourdough. It is really easy, it takes a bit longer, but there are less steps - just mix some more flour/water (sometimes salt, but I've not had a problem when I forget though others say it helps the taste to add salt - YMMV) into your starter and wait. Yeast is faster by a lot, but it is a lot more complex and so I don't find it worth it.

My wife got a square cast iron dutch oven that she bakes bread in. The breads have this nice crust and soft texture inside. To die for.

Agree. Work hard, but also family hard, “friend” hard, play hard, and in general just live hard.

Edit: and no one likes to work hard for peanuts or under threat of being fired

Obviously your support chatbot with talk to your flavor of clawd that will call Claude Code that will code a solution that will be reviewed by Codex that will merge and release it and then will ping clawd that will send an email to the user announcing that their issue has been fixed. /s just in case

Great analogy, I’m saving it!