🧵 Here’s the tea on Design Tokens for Twitter’s new Visual Design Language. Specifically, the learnings that I gained working on Android, iOS, and Web for the Revenue, Marketing, and Consumer design systems. (1/7)

Accidentally re-inventing “thinking” from first principles

I know this may sound petty, but I can’t stand it when people put photoshop a meth pipe in my mouth. A crack pipe doesn’t have that little bowl at the end. This is why we can’t trust AI. Please make the appropriate edit. Thank you for your attention to this matter.

I’m an immigrant. So are my parents. I ran Track through high school and college. Track taught me grit and gave me an outlet to succeed beyond my academics. A childhood of pure academic grinding isn’t discipline, you’re holding them back with old country thinking.

I know design twitter loves it but I actually hate the acrylic blur on background instead of light gray with opacity. It actively hurts my eyes. And sometimes I actually do care about the stuff in the background.

The hunt is on 👀 The #UFC328 artist series poster has arrived! 🎨: @OSporin

BREAKING 🚨: This is extremely illegal. This is Matthew Gallagher, who created 800 Facebook accounts posing as fake doctors to advertise on Facebook, and went on to build a GLP-1 telehealth company with just $20,000, AI, and only one full-time teammate, his brother. The New York Times fabricated their AI startup story. It generated 401M USD in 2025 and could reach 1.8B USD in 2026. Medvi received FDA Warning Letter #721455 in February 2026 for misbranding violations. Its clinician network, OpenLoop, suffered a data breach in January 2026 that exposed 1.6 million patient records. Futurism reported that they used AI-generated deepfake before-and-after photos in their marketing. A class action lawsuit was filed in Delaware in November 2025. They are also running 800 fake doctor accounts on Facebook to sell compounded GLP-1s.

> its 2028 in san francisco > you are one of the last software engineers > “human in the loop” is your job description > wake up for your 9am standup at openai > scan your face to verify age > you join the call as the only human, the agents initiate slow mode so you can follow along > discussion around optimizing power consumption for models on autonomous weapons > consider raising an ethics concern > remember your job is symbolic > close laptop > $1.50 costco hotdog for breakfast. the last affordable meal in SF > agents ping you occasionally (less often now) > walk back to your studio with 2 roommates > see your ex-cofounder on the street > you two built a website for tracking what stores carried white monster in 2019 > you built that website by hand and had a blast doing it “must…. escape the… permanent underclass” he rambles “we never had a chance,” you think > phone buzzes > email from HR > you’ve been laid off > sama tweets that openai is 100% automated > openai stock booms > 90% of the world’s wealth is controlled by 8 people > you are the permanent underclass

AI creates a productivity ceiling that's decoupled from human understanding. People keep doing things, but don't learn while doing. The depth of knowledge underneath is eroding. The rate at which AI improves sets the speed limit for humanity.

16 oz = 1 lb. 12 inches = 1 foot. 3 feet = 1 yard. 1760 yards = 1 mile. 32° freezes, 98.6° body temp, 212° boils. Fluid oz ≠ oz. 😬🔫

There is so much to be said about this tour. My first instinct was to go into critique mode. But I have thought about this for a while. And honestly for a 21 year old I would say he has done something beautiful. Something that will be remembered for a long time. He did more for African tourism (once you remove the really embarrassing Nigerian part of it) than any tourism board in Africa in the past few years. He was a young man having the time of his life, coming with no pretence of expertise or philanthropy. Just doing random stuff he enjoyed. Sometimes chaotic. Often genuine interactions with people across the continent. We saw the funny, the interesting and the ugly (again, thanks Nigeria). I see a rare example of a young streamer who has gone beyond the sometimes banal streaming culture to do something truly worthwhile.

Coding with AI killed my flow state. I went from solving puzzles to picking dialogue options.

A single ICU Nurse is worth more to society than every ICE Agent put together.

They executed him on his knees in the street. I cannot believe what is happening to my country. I say this not as a Democrat, or a Republican, but as an American. They are boiling us like frogs, trying to acclimate us to the destruction of our nation.

PSA: if you're on an H1B and are under 26 years old. Do yourself a favor and look into this: sss.gov/

Don't think of LLMs as entities but as simulators. For example, when exploring a topic, don't ask: "What do you think about xyz"? There is no "you". Next time try: "What would be a good group of people to explore xyz? What would they say?" The LLM can channel/simulate many perspectives but it hasn't "thought about" xyz for a while and over time and formed its own opinions in the way we're used to. If you force it via the use of "you", it will give you something by adopting a personality embedding vector implied by the statistics of its finetuning data and then simulate that. It's fine to do, but there is a lot less mystique to it than I find people naively attribute to "asking an AI".

The older I get the more I realize wisdom does not correlate with age. Some folks just accumulate it extremely quickly and others will go through life thinking they were always right. And some people lose their way.

.@SouthwestAir the type of airline to spill an entire cup of sprite on you and tell you there’s nothing they can do.

Now show me Waterloo

Inline predictive text is literally hijacking my train of thought.