Designer using twitter. Seeking responsible tech. Wrote https://teapawt.net/t.co/dGxTJFdyxb Design @imbue_ai
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Joined October 2013
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If you are:
1. using coding agents (or want to)
2. have appetite to try out a new agent orchestrator (ADE)
3. and willing to report at least 10 bugs
hit me up, have something super cool for you to try out
as a designer who didn't used to code (beyond CSS), this transition for me is wild 🤯
in the last week, I designed and shipped a notes panel, @ mention system, and CMD K palette
(just designing CMD K by hand would have taken me the same amount of time)
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Deep learning works extraordinarily well. And we still largely don't know why.
A new paper from @learning_mech, @KuninDaniel, and 12 co-authors argues that a scientific theory of deep learning is emerging, and coins a name for the emerging field: learning mechanics.
We sat down with Jamie and Dan on Generally Intelligent to talk about what a physics of deep learning would actually look like, why now, and what's left to figure out.
3:05 Learning mechanics as the physics to mechanistic interpretability's biology
4:13 Why deep learning needs a theory
7:07 Why deep learning is uniquely hard to engineer
12:11 How a week in the woods became a paper
25:59 The barrier to theory isn't opacity, but complexity
36:26 Deep learning's first gas law
47:22 Why more particles makes the problem easier
56:22 The discretization hypothesis
1:01:50 The strongest signal that a compact theory exists
1:05:07 The Platonic Representation Hypothesis
1:15:41 Why learning mechanics and mech interp need each other
1:25:29 Theory as safety infrastructure
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Yesterday we launched Bouncer to put users in control of their Twitter feed.
Today, we open sourced the Chrome extension.
We believe software should align with your interests, not the company that built it. We built Bouncer for us, now go make it yours.
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220 employees of OpenAI and Google Deepmind have signed this letter urging their leaders to stand with Anthropic. That leaves... ~8780 to go.
Friends at OpenAI and GDM, please join them!
notdivided.org
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Excited to share what we've been working on!
We barely missed out on having an ARC-AGI-2 public high score (congrats @BingBongBrent and @bankminer78 ), but I'm most excited about our underlying approach: Our open-ended evolutionary method can optimize agentic systems end to end.
I love that Imbue is hosting more and more events
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Had the honor to host a group of 30 design leaders, founders, and product folks at @imbue_ai this week and one thing is clear: I enjoyed myself a lot!
Ping me if you want to join the next one
more photos here teapawt.net/imbue_ai/status/202204…
What conversations happen if you gather product leaders from companies like Anthropic, Figma, Gamma, and Stripe for dinner and a fireside chat with @joulee and @kanjun?
Here were the top 3 highlights:
1) The roles of engineer, designer, and PM will converge, but taste will be the differentiator.
Taste often seems ambiguous, but the core of it is understanding your user's needs. Traditionally, product managers have overseen coordination between designers and engineers. But as prototyping becomes easier than ever, ideas can now be evaluated through demos made in an afternoon.
2) You probably don't need more than 3 people to ship a successful product.
Small startup teams have the advantage of decision-making speed, and AI expedites this even further. In January, we leaned into this at Imbue: we reorganized into multiple small project teams, each with a directly responsible individual (DRI) taking ownership of outcomes. Four weeks in, we're preparing to launch multiple end-to-end products. Our engineers now have the autonomy of founders, and are more energized than ever.
3) To preserve craft while balancing the speed of AI, carve out more time to think. Execution is no longer the moat; ideas are.
While engineers have 10x-ed with AI, a designer's main challenge was never the speed of rounding corners in Figma, but the thinking behind making products useful and beautiful. The more designers are able to reflect about the user's needs, the stronger their intuition will be; increasing the conviction of their design decisions and subsequently the impact of their products.
now with video! teapawt.net/imbue_ai/status/202422…
Had a lot of fun teaching my co-workers @imbue_ai about Figma yesterday
Their minds were particularly blown when I showed off some of the smart alignment tools. Things may or may not have kept escalating as the lesson went on, nearly had a revolt on my hands by the end 😂
If you write code, you are going to want to check out what I have been working on for the last year. Sculptor is such a seamless way to write code with AI and integrate it with whatever workflow you are already using.
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Generally Intelligent is back—and now in video!
Our first guest is our very own @mattboulos, who leads policy at Imbue. He and @kanjun discuss:
- how AI shifts power
- lawless digital spaces
- bottom-up vs. top-down automation
and more.
Full episode and transcript in thread:
Trying to calibrate for a brand design hire...
I am looking for examples of exceptional brand design portfolios. Any favorites?
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Have you ever had a client say the words "I'm not a designer, but..." ?
Get ready to practice the hardest skill in design. Link to my full #Config2025 talk below.