»LLMs drift, fabricate tokens, and start every session from scratch. Here’s how to feed your design system to AI coding agents so they stop guessing.«
Expose your design system to LLMs by Hardik Pandya.
»Yet, I want to know these tools, these new tools of increasing weirdness and danger. So I use them, daily, amid a constantly fluctuating state of bafflement and delight and horror (pessimistic, optimistic, manic). Over the last couple of months I’ve continued to use mostly Claude to work on a bunch of projects.«
Author Craig Mod wrote about his most “Recent adventures in using LLMs”. For example sending out A Swarm of Blood Robots, to learn more about his ancestors based on his adoption papers.
I would love to deep-dive into the specific use cases that great creative people come up with for this technology more often. Any other interesting recommendations?
»Fast learns, slow remembers. Fast proposes, slow disposes. Fast is discontinuous, slow is continuous. Fast and small instructs slow and big by accrued innovation and by occasional revolution. Slow and big controls small and fast by constraint and constancy. Fast gets all our attention, slow has all the power.
All durable dynamic systems have this sort of structure. It is what makes them adaptable and robust.«
Lately, I’ve found myself repeatedly coming back to the concept of Pace Layering as laid out by Stewart Brand years ago in an essay for the Journal of Design and Science (JoDS), a sadly discontinued joint venture of the MIT Media Lab and the MIT Press.
more work-in-progress documentation on instagram.com/ldtlab
»Macht schöne Dinge. Macht Dinge, die man benutzen kann. Macht einfache Dinge. Hütet Euch vor zu viel Kunstfertigkeit. Hütet Euch vor zu viel Wissen. Das Werk sollte gesund sein. Achtet die Handarbeit. Seid darauf bedacht, den Preis niedrig zu halten. Macht Gefäße, die Ihr selbst gern benutzt. Das Werk sollte bescheiden sein. Innere Klarheit ist die Grundlage der Schönheit. Beachtet die Eigenschaften des Materials. Beobachtet die Natur intensiv. Das Gefäß zu formen entspricht der Formung der eigenen Persönlichkeit.«
»Self-publishing on the internet is a rewarding and powerful experience – you can very quickly produce work that is accessible to billions of people for very low cost.
Building websites is often seen as an uncreative, mathematics-based task undertaken by coders. This library encourages you to learn how to design and build interactive experiences and to consider this a tool in your design toolkit.«
If you want to publish something online for the first time, this is a great starting point. As a matter of fact, even if you’ve been building websites for a while already, you might learn something new from the linked external resources.
Unfortunately, its author Jake Dow-Smith hasn’t updated the website in almost a year, but it’s still well worth a look.
»Take the power back. [ … ] We need to write on our own domains. [ … ] Own your writing. [ … ] And on your domain, send people to other domains you like, outside the usual black holes, if possible.«
This claim to Take the power back on the Internet by Oliver Reichenstein, the founder of Information Architects (iA), feels more relevant than ever, doesn’t it?
»The internet was built on websites that linked to one another. The concept of congregating in walled gardens owned by pedophilic fascist speed freaks who actively block the sharing of links in an effort to keep people scrolling on their platforms is very new. With any luck, it will pass sooner rather than later, and every time someone creates an actual fucking website, that day gets a little closer.«
Have a Fucking Website!