hi i'm aileen & i led design for the world’s best demo day. here's a behind the scenes thread with my highlights & struggles 🧵

Updates to the Figma MCP server: → Generate and edit decks in Figma Slides → Build boards with data in FigJam → Roundtrip from code to canvas in Figma Make Now with custom font support and image exports.

What are you worth when nothing is scarce? For most of human history, economic value came from what you could do and how fast you could do it. If the machines end up smarter, faster, and stronger at every task, what's left? @alexolegimas wrote a great piece arguing that in the world the only thing left to price is human presence itself. Which raises a set of questions I couldn't stop thinking about. What skills do you actually need when being human is the product? Does everyone end up competing on one likability leaderboard, or does status fracture into a thousand fields with their own hierarchies? Is a market in warmth coercive or any less of a meritocracy than the one it replaces? New essay on Girard, Versailles, meritocracy, and the revenge of the jocks: juliawillemyns.substack.com/…

We successfully predicted emotion from brain activity, achieving >2x performance to the previous state of the art. Alljoined collected a dataset of 3,408 videos paired with EEG data across 24 participants, covering happy, sad, fear, anger, disgust, and neutral emotion.

working at figma has me falling in love w product design again🥺

The vibes in New York rn

I'm hiring a Product Designer to join me at @joinpogo to build out our new enterprise platform! We’re disrupting consumer insights and market research (an industry that hasn’t really changed in decades). We’re building a platform for the world’s largest brands to analyze and engage purchase-verified consumers, combining familiar research workflows with the capabilities of AI. About @joinpogo: - Helping 3M users monetize their data - 7-figure revenue / employee - 4.9 stars across 120k reviews - Raised $30M from top investors (including @soleio, @scottbelsky, @lennysan, and more) This is a freelance/contract role for now - up to 40 hours per week, with a minimum 6-month commitment. If it’s a good fit, we’re open to converting the position to full-time!

Today we’re releasing DeepSWE, a new standard for agentic coding benchmarks. On public leaderboards, top models often look relatively close in capability. DeepSWE shows where they actually diverge, reflecting the realistic experience of developers in their day-to-day work.

We’re Gridmaxxing → Drag to reorder columns/rows → Automatic positioning → Automatic rows

We raised $250M in Series C funding at a $2.2B valuation, led by a16z. Exa is a search lab organizing the web's data for agents.

happy to share that i've joined the design team @tolanworld! really excited to make experiences that make people's lives fuller & more whimsical :-)

going to the fig apple 🍎 joining Figma as a product design intern in NYC this summer- come say hi :)

Who up thinking of having a maisy mouse summer

linkedin sunnyvale caf food is truly so spectacular because i once brought my brown friend to visit once and she said the dal tasted like her mom's

Aquarium visitors were startled to see a leopard shark trying to bite off another shark’s fin Staff explained it wasn’t aggression but normal… flirting — this is how sharks show interest in each other.

my flight today had this adorable pullout physical controller for the screen- wish we still saw this style of tactile design everywhere!

Applications are now open for the 2026 Paradigm Fellowship: a 4-day retreat for young people who are obsessively good at something technical. For our fourth year, we're expanding to welcome builders across every frontier — AI, robotics, energy, bio, prediction markets, or something we haven't thought of. Last year's cohort came from 10 countries. Some were undergrads, some were dropouts, some were founders, some came from OpenAI, SpaceX, Citadel, and Kalshi. The format is simple: firesides, whiteboarding sessions, and time to hack. What makes it special is what happens in between, and after. Fellows have met cofounders, started companies, and gone on to raise from Paradigm and others. I was a fellow before joining Paradigm, the retreat was a transformative trip for me, and I met some of my closest friends through the program. Apply by June 8th. Retreat runs August 12–15th.

Today, @chris_oka_ and I are proud to share that we've raised an oversubscribed $1.56M Pre-Seed round, supported by @N49PVC, @StandUpVentures,@GarageCapital, @backboneangels, @skanwar, @Wehuns, and @tobi. Community builders are at the forefront of the next big wave of entrepreneurship. We're building the economic rails, professional network, and discovery layer they need to meet the skyrocketing demand for in-person experiences. We're hiring across dev, design, and storytelling -- reach out if you feel there's a fit!!

tis normal

agi is here