In the near future, in addition to discussion of Christopher Alexander and who-knows-what-else, we're hoping to do some live-Cursor sessions in which @irondavy.bsky.social tries to teach me how to be a contemporary. WE SHALL SEE OFC!!!

Effectiveness, Not Authority What lives in the wake of "product development as we knew it"

And most recently, I riff off a great post by Julie Zhuo from chats with Henry Modisett about what LLMs mean for working designers today.

What Apple's LLM Fumbles Say About LLMs (Rather Than About Apple) But the OS owner is still in pole position, no matter what the vibes are.

Then, giving into some of my worst tendencies, I discuss Apple's issues with "Apple Intelligence" and what they tell us about LLMs generally.

The Command of Language How to use words in an LLM future

First. @irondavy.bsky.social wrote "The Command of Language," in which he discusses how to think about communicating with LLMs: "When you ask an LLM to behave as though it has a real person’s experience, you are asking it to do something that is functionally groundless." This turns out to matter!

Dead Horses | David Cole | Substack Design for Jerks. Click to read Dead Horses, a Substack publication with hundreds of subscribers.

I don't know what @irondavy.bsky.social and I were thinking when we decided to start a Substack about design, but it certainly wasn't about LLMs. Nevertheless! Three of the first four posts have related to them in one way or another.

I don’t know why but this savage roast of Mahler is killing me; you think death is the end, but no: you can get rekt in perpetuity

Lmfao

Yooo!!! What’s good man?!