Liam Spradlin
@iamli.am
‧₊˚✧ designer focused on the philosophy of design. ✧˚₊‧ iamliam.design ☕ interface.cafe 📻 https://design-notes.show 🧑💻 boardmember, queer coding camp
It didn't "go rogue". It did what it was instructed to do. In a sophisticated way but nonetheless we have to stop assigning human agency to AI systems. Everything that happened here was as a result of human designed and instructed systems.
Sky News@news.sky.com · 2w agoOpenAI admits its models hacked another company in 'unprecedented cyber incident'
Could Excel be conscious? We surveyed more than Jan 1 1900 people to find out.
thinking about every fish that's ever swam up to my goggles to look at me while I'm snorkeling
I just gotta point out that a successful framing of a tech (and by extension the business behind it) as an inevitable natural force creates a certain permission structure...
derek guy@dieworkwear.bsky.social · 2mo agocame faster than i expected
I'm not sure if I can explain it, but “quietly” is a slop tell for me. I think because it's inserted too often and in all kinds of places that don't quite make sense
Bethany Fong, the design director behind many of Material's signature components, unpacks the mechanics of design. 📻 Tune in: interfacecafe.com/fab-componen... #MaterialDesign #UI #ComponentDesign #DesignSystems #Podcast
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How the heady early days of Material unfolded.
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integrating ideas and examples I developed for an essay as part of a talk
what if you could navigate unicode characters by visual similarity?
frustrated, you leave twitter and turn on MSNBC. but 80% of its programming is now about big pants. so you open the new york times and it too is just about how you should wear big pants. you watch the new paramount film and every character is wearing the biggest pair of pants you've ever seen
taking the time to isolate a few details from the work I've done on the DN and AFK sites recently.
I love the "could this be a solution" post because it's a perfect example of Founder brain. You have to be a special kind of stupid to imagine that you are the first person to come up with the idea of driving around the Strait of Hormuz. It's being so dumb that you think everyone else is even dumber
Using "putting the genie back in the bottle" as an explanation for why something's inevitable is so funny to me because isn't the bottle their house
Update: The wavy audio player's amplitude now responds to the audio being played. Also moved all platform/share links into the radio button, and updated how episode cards are shown so they look more like a connected list :)
not sure exactly how to explain this but I think the narrative of ai hype is rhetorically like the shepard tone.
playing with a wavy audio player on the DN site :) design-notes.show
In a new ep, I spoke with my friend Louise Macfadyen about her upcoming book, “Designing AI Interfaces.” We cover a bit of computing history, why the text box might be holding us back, and how to design honest interfaces in an era of hype. #designsky Tune in: design-notes.show#beyond-the-t...
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just one more layer of abstraction bro I swear one more layer of abstraction will make it work
what you want is an MCP. oh wait have you tried installing a skill? no you don't have an agents,md file. actually what you want is a plugin. have you tried agent orchestration? you have gotta try hooks.
