Chief Vibe Officer at Pencil.dev ✏️
Joined October 2008
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Playing with Fable, remembering Opus. Life is life.
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HeroUI is now available on @pencildev! 🚀
Build with HeroUI design system directly inside Pencil’s AI-powered canvas
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Grab Pencil for Cursor, infinite design canvas that uses your Cursor subscription.
pencil.dev/downloads
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Tom Krcha retweeted
May 12
Is AI is making you a better author of your design work?
@tomkrcha paused with that question. He was giving it some serious thought.
He's been thinking about how to improve design work for decades:
- Was the youngest Adobe Flash evangelist
- Created Adobe XD
- Founded @pencildev
His thesis follows an emerging bet many design tool builders are making right now:
AI agents will increasingly share the canvas with humans.
We dig deep into what the future of design work might look like, and how he's building for it.
Don't miss this one.
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Introducing Code on Canvas in @pencildev
AI design tool for Claude and Codex.
Design ❤️ Code are officially in a relationship, opening new ways to create on canvas.
Ask agent to generate custom design tools inside Pencil on the fly, create interactive components, generative art and more, but still keep the full manual design control.
This is just the beginning. Let us know what you think. And let's take it to the next level together.
Download the new Pencil update today.
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Another example, this tool fits as many rectangles, squares or circles into the bounding box with predefined padding as possible. This tool was create in couple minutes by Opus. It'd be so much pain to replicate all of these objects manually and maintain it. Design is becoming modular and you can essentially create the right toolset for your job on the spot.
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This is an on-the-fly generated chart tool, a custom one, you probably want slightly different charts, bespoke charts, none of tools would be perfect for your design, just ask the agent to tweak it how you want it, past custom data, or ask agent to fill it with custom data.
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Tom Krcha retweeted
Mar 14
Did we get a chance to tell you about Mesh Gradients in Pencil.dev yet. Yeah, they are really cool. Try them out. Go to fill -> mesh gradient. Or ask agent to generate one for you to get started.
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Tom Krcha retweeted
Mar 12
Pencil is goated
Watch my interview with @tomkrcha here youtu.be/w4RY7PnfRU8
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Tom Krcha retweeted
Mar 11
I've been using @pencildev for all of my design work and honestly, it's wild... it's like Figma and Cursor had a baby.
You type what you want, AI agents build the design and you get to watch them work in real time.
What I love:
- Component-based designing
- Agent swarms that design in parallel
- Full Figma-style controls when you want them
- Free to download — just use your existing OpenAI/Anthropic subscription
I use it for all my AI design work now. Not affiliated, just genuinely impressed.
I'm getting the founder @tomkrcha on for a podcast recording soon. What questions should I ask him?
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Spent an hour with pencil.dev and I'm sold. If you're an engineer who has strong design opinions but zero design skills (ie. me), this is your tool.
Free, runs on all platforms, uses your own claude sub with no setup, and the built-in prompts actually work great.
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