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I think a back end should definitely still exist with structured data, but it should have an API that an agent could write to. It doesn’t need to be something that’s customer or client facing anymore.
Serious question for web people: if an AI agent can update your website from a Slack message or a text, what is the CMS actually for anymore?
Permissions? Audit trail? Or just habit?
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I’m sure she’s already hired
Hi, it's Darshita. I am a designer.
And I'm pitching myself in public 'cause I'm done with a year full of anxiety.
Everyone says design is dead and AI killed it. But the real parasite was hiding in plain sight.
So here's my film, DESIGN IS DEAD. She's bold, fearless and very PINK 💖
Hiring? My DMs are open.
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These are the kind of stories of excess I wanna hear more about
Jaylen Brown says he bought a gold harp, and now has someone come over twice a week to play it as the sun goes down while his chef cooks dinner
“My favorite purchase, I think my best, my most favorite purchase was, I bought a harp. I bought like a gold harp. I got it upstairs too…”
“I got a harpist that come play like twice a week. While the sun is going down, chef is in the kitchen. You know what I mean? Just…”
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This
Of course the Roadster demo was a spectacle. He’s selling cars. He’s going to show the most outrageous things the tech can do.
And it was pretty fucking impressive. Watching it hang upside down, defying gravity, was cool. Watching it fall from the sky and stick the landing was insane.
The prototype isn’t practical in its current form -- don’t care. It’s not hard to imagine practical applications for this tech beyond jumping police barricades and retina detaching acceleration.
That same tech can help a car stop on black ice, avoid a collision, or prevent a rollover. Practical stuff will inevitably make its way into regular production cars.
F1 gave us safer tires, better transmissions, more efficient aerodynamics… all from engineers trying to make cars go faster around a track. The guy who invented the 3-point seatbelt previously worked on ejection seats.
Useful applications aren’t always obvious until later, though I think many are obvious in this case.
The next few demos will be more Evel Knievel than anything you’d actually want to do in a car. Cool. We’ll probably see some practical stuff in there too.
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AI psychosis rant…
My wife is away for a couple of days, which means I’m on full-time kid duty. Normally we take turns being on call when the kids wake up at night, giving each other a little time to ourselves. Last night, I decided to just lie down with the kids and put on some headphones.
I barely listen to music anymore, partly because I’m constantly talking to my AI agents. Music used to be such a huge part of my life, so I decided to spend the evening rediscovering it.
I stumbled across a DJ who posts live mixes along with the tracklists. I screenshotted 10 songs, gave them to Dot, and asked it to use those tracks as the foundation for a playlist, then find 30 more songs that captured the same feeling.
I was genuinely surprised by how well it understood the vibe. So I found another DJ set and did it again.
An hour later, I’d gone down this rabbit hole of EDM, dance, hip-hop, reggaeton, and all kinds of music I hadn’t listened to in years. I was having a great time.
Then I got curious about how far I could take this.
I asked Dot to describe the difference between a Saturday and a Sunday, not in terms of activities, but how each day feels. Then I asked it to break those feelings down hour by hour, from morning to night.
I agreed with most of its interpretation, so I gave it another assignment: build me a soundtrack for each day, with however many songs are needed to carry the mood from one hour to the next. Sequence everything intentionally so I can just press play in the morning and let the music evolve with the day. No shuffling, no skipping between playlists.
And suddenly I’d gone from rediscovering music to creating an entire framework for how I could discover, collect, and curate music going forward.
But the more interesting realization had very little to do with music.
The more I use Dot, the more I discover things I never would have thought to use an agent for.
I think the trick is to force yourself into the role of a director.
Every text message, every random thought, every little thing you would normally just do yourself… introduce an artificial constraint where you have to consider giving it to your assistant first.
Not because the agent will necessarily do it better, or because everything needs to be automated, but because the act of turning your intentions into assignments forces you to discover what’s possible.
Eventually, delegation becomes a reflex rather than something you have to consciously think about.
And that’s when you really start discovering the boundaries of these tools, what they’re unexpectedly good at, what they’re terrible at, and what you’d still rather do yourself.
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Making up for lost time…
open.spotify.com/playlist/3F…
open.spotify.com/playlist/16…
open.spotify.com/playlist/1S…
open.spotify.com/playlist/7z…
One of the unfortunate consequences of chatting all day with an LLM to get my work done across multiple tasks is that I can’t listen to music because there’s no breaks to just vibe
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Me: I want you to make me a new Spotify playlist with these tracks as its core, but I want you to expand the playlist to 30
Dot: I’ll use those tracks as the foundation, build it out to 30 songs with a similar feel, and put them in a good listening order.
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Dot: R&B Time Machine open.spotify.com/playlist/1S… is ready: all nine songs from your screenshot plus 21 complementary tracks. Just over two hours, moving from cookout soul through new jack swing and ’90s grooves into 2000s R&B.
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EDM Time Machine open.spotify.com/playlist/7z… is ready: all 10 tracks from your screenshot plus 20 more, using the original-era versions. Just over two hours of French house, electro-house and Eurodance, easing into a more atmospheric finish.
Playlist created. Items added to playlist.
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