Getting huge amounts of joy from this thing. 👏 @genmon

Sad but true

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Thinking clearly and imaginatively has always been the hardest part of design.

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"Design, in this sense, is not about artifacts or tools. It is about forming and shaping clarity of the intent through ideas, exploration, research, and discussion. It is about deciding what matters, what constraints apply, and what tradeoffs are acceptable." 👏

In 2025, I wrote 800k words in my notes (War & Peace is 500k words), so manually reviewing wasn't going to happen. But luckily computers understand language now! I spent the past week building this Lookback feature: it reads through all the notes & chats to pull out highlights & insights People use Lightpage in very different ways: as a journal, as a work scratchpad, as a learning notebook, etc. So instead of being prescriptive about the output, I gave the LLM general principles to follow and it turned out pretty well A few screenshots from my lookback:

the old way of scaling teams is dead: we used to hire specialists – designers, engineers, PMs – each in their lane, scaling by adding more people. but when Cursor can take you from idea to code in minutes, execution isn't the bottleneck anymore. taste and judgment are. what matters now: people who can see the full stack, move between layers, but specialize deeply in something AI can't replicate yet. T-shaped but way wider – conversant across domains, expert in one thing. AI doesn't just make you faster. it ties teams together differently. no more waterfall – designer codes the prototype, engineer extends it, both work in the same medium. the gap between disciplines disappears. this raises individual ceilings. i'm a designer who built ryOS entirely in Cursor – couldn't have done that before. but i'm not replacing engineers, i'm just removing execution barriers while keeping my design taste and systems thinking. you're not hiring for roles anymore. you're hiring for breadth depth, taste, systems thinking, learning velocity. 5 people who can work across code/design/product beat 20 specialists coordinating handoffs. the new bottlenecks are deeply human: taste, vision, judgment, context. AI explores options, but can't tell you which is right. that's where specialization matters now – in judgment, not execution. small teams, fluid boundaries, everyone working in the same tools. roles still matter but as overlapping concerns with different depths, not separate silos. tools handle execution, you handle vision. this is what we're building at Cursor – closing the gap between idea and reality. so your taste becomes the main thing, and teams have more freedom to explore crazy ideas.

Have been having one of the most profound experiences with a computer that I can remember over the past few days exploring 17 years of Apple Notes with the help of @claudeai code 😮

My hot take is nearly every major app would benefit from removing 5-10 features. We are drowning in features.

I feel like I am falling for engagement bait here, but when has any worthwhile design problem been expressed in anything like the phrase "Please create the WhatsApp in-chat UI"? Can we throw this AI-designer a more ambiguous problem?

Do I have any super strong freelance product designers in my network here? Need to be NYC or SF-based and able to dive into some Monzo US projects asap 👀

Use your product more than your users.

Many such cases

Our !Camera launch poster is of course an homage to the famous 1999 iMac "Yum" poster. At a time when everyone else was obsessed with power & efficiency, they made something more fulfilling.