The best technology disappears. Right now, using AI feels like programming. You negotiate with prompts, iterate on instructions, fight with interfaces. What if using AI became as effortless as using a pen? #Design #ProductManagement #Engineering #IdeaCanvas #AIart 1/7 🧵

Prediction: In the AI age, taste will become even more important. When anyone can make anything, the big differentiator is what you choose to make. paulgraham.com/taste.html

We've been here before. Television promised shared experience. Delivered passive consumption. Mobile phones promised connection. Delivered dependency. Social media promised community. Delivered performance. open.substack.com/pub/shalin… Each crossed from tools that enhanced capabilities to dependency. We never noticed until going back was impossible. AI is approaching that threshold. But this time we can see it coming. One path lowers the floor. The other raises the ceiling. We still get to choose.

AI is already a cheat code. So if you’re copying other people’s prompts, downloading their workflows, following their playbooks… you’re cheating at cheating. What’s your edge?

Intelligent Centric vs. Data Centric The Missing Layer Isn’t Data. It’s Judgment. open.substack.com/pub/ifykyk…

If you are single shot vibe coding, you are doing it wrong. Even with @Google Gemini 3. Lessons learned. What feels like #magic one day will feel like #AIslop the next. Go back to the fundamentals. The time you spend on thinking and strategy becomes time you save on execution and refactoring, or in your case prompting 400 times. Give it time people.

For decades, technology was inching closer to being more personal, more intuitive, more human. 80s: point and click instead of cryptic commands 90s: the web remembered our preferences. 2000s: touchscreens let us touch our ideas. 2010s: devices predicted our needs... 🧵 1/7

New letter is out: "The creative founder" Easier to read here: gregisenberg.ck.page/posts/t…

Hearing rumors that the FDIC is blocking GSIBs from buying SVB on the grounds that it would create too much concentration with our largest banks. If true, they really need to understand that not finding a suitable buyer over the weekend will result in much greater concentration in GSIBs than letting one buy it, and this will happen across industries as businesses and people move balances out of smaller banks in fear the same thing will happen to them. Do the right thing. Protect deposit holders while you still can!