My 76 old Dad loves checking the TOTP on his phone and asking me to verbally read it out when I need him to accept a 2FA push notification to let me log into his bank or government accounts so I can do something for him.
He says it “feels like 007 stuff.” “AI will never trick me!”
We also have a duress code word, listed in the notes of that KeePass(ium) entry with the TOTP.
This isn’t going to replace Figma. It’s going to replace the people who use Figma.
My 76yo Dad just used Claude Design to make a simple commercial tenancy/lease management CRUD app. We handed what he built to Claude Code to implement within my existing business tech stack. It perfectly followed my coding & testing playbooks (basically a multi-file CLAUDE.md with prompt & command hooks to evaluate conformance). It works… exactly as my Dad imagined.
Now, mind you, my Dad had some outdated UI expectations (he asked Claude Design to style use a Windows 98 aesthetic!), but my point is: we just built a fully-functional, deeply tested, domain-expert-designed app, in less than a day.
I don't like the "I canceled my x subscription" hype posts, but I did cancel Figma today. We've barely used it in months and this was the nail in the coffin.
Question for you, did these tools replace software / design consulting as something you relied on in the past?
This is a success story I've been hearing more recently. Restaurants, contractors, plumbing, 1 person startups... I'm wondering if this is because the barrier to entry is now lower - or if these tools are actually moving work away from small software teams or individual devs.
IMO this is the crux of the "AI Eating SWE" scenario (along with other knowledge work...) I'm sure it's a little bit of both. If this was something you were going to pay a designer and a developer for, it changes the outlook.
From my perspective, it feels more likely that with cheaper software we'll see a rush of people building their own, but once it gets sufficiently complex it then needs to be maintained, or improved, and it becomes more work than the initial weekend POC.
simple question, I didn't found out that tiny point in the claude design UI: how do you "hand over" to claude code exactly? just created my design system and would like to drop into my CC managed repo so CC can flesh out all the react components to the design system. only a folder with files like SKILL.md so far that I spotted ort some JSX stuff. wonder if there is some blessed way instead
For us, Claude Design wrote one html file and a bunch of jsx files. What it built was quite functional. We used the “export” button to download the project as a zip file and I placed the contents into a directory in my monorepo. Then I wrote an about 5 paragraph prompt for Claude Code, sent it with bypass permissions (CC is running as a different, non-root user with no LAN network access), and went to bed. The next day, viola, it turned prototype jsx into tsx (+ server-side ts) that mostly conformed with my existing stack.
I’ve been trying to find a good way to let my Dad keep tweaking the new version but haven’t so far. For now he continues to work (using CD) on the jsx prototype. I can do another export later and CC could use git diff to see what changed and realise those same changes in the “real” version. But there has to be a better way.
I tried this on a local project. It looks very jank and the math falls apart quickly. Unfortunately, using a fixed axis-aligned grid for rotating reference frames is not practical.
One to thing I wanted to try but didn’t, was to use dynamic axes. So once an entity is created (that is, a group of voxels not attached to the world grid), it gets its own grid that can rotate relative to the world grid. The challenge would be collision detection between two unaligned grids of voxels. Converting the group to a mesh, like Teardown does, would probably be the easiest and most effective way, unless you want to invent some new game-physics math!
I think the word “solve” is better than “hide” here.
Fusion 360’s heuristics are so good that I rarely run into these problems. When I do, it’s usually because it was a drastic change to a previous feature in the timeline and I’m expecting to encounter issues because it’s a really fundamental change.
that's basically because all commercial cad software are built on the same 3 geometric kernels (none of which are open source) and have robust and mature solutions. FreeCAD's is improving over time but it's a game of catch-up and the math and algorithms involved are complex.
The kernel FreeCAD uses doesn't really have a robust heuristic for this, so FreeCAD had to implement its own.
I wonder, is Microsoft doing “outsider trading”, where they covertly pipe analytical data to the executives’ independently-owned stock trading houses as “tips”? They’ve had access to so many corporate internal emails for so long, with MS365, but Copilot is the perfect way to mask such analysis. Also Copilot would be good at analysing emails and providing useful “tips”.
The Steam Link, also from 2015, is also still receiving updates! My partner and I use ours regularly to play co-op games on our TV. I really appreciate the efforts of whomever is keeping it running.
Too much speculation. Take the 18th amendment one. Maybe prohibition did have the desired effects, in addition to the undesirable side effects. The two are not mutually exclusive.
I know little about stocks, but I've heard China doesn't allow shorting stocks and many other "advanced" stock products/instruments. You can buy, sell and trade stocks, and nothing else. They also audit to ensure stocks are not oversold/traded (e.g.: selling stock you don’t own in the hopes you’ll obtain some in time to fulfil an order).
He says it “feels like 007 stuff.” “AI will never trick me!”
We also have a duress code word, listed in the notes of that KeePass(ium) entry with the TOTP.
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