> what makes you think that the features that are personally important to you are the same features that other potential users need?
Good question, what's the pitch:
“Vecti is a browser-based UI design tool built from the ground up with one core belief, that creators deserve tools built specifically for them. Better performance, better privacy, and better alignment with their actual needs. A tool that just works, built by someone who genuinely cares about the people using it.”
Hmm. Did founders of Balsamiq or Figma not care about the people using it? And who if not creators were they built for?
“Share & Present - Set viewer and editor permissions at the team or project level. When it's time to present … let your work shine.”
My opinions are my own … but rhyme with this, particularly the final paragraph, with a twist: the strong foundation with in-house mastery that can sherpa an atelier of agents.
> You're no longer developing software, you're doing therapy for robots.
Or, really, hacking in "learning", building your knowhow-base.
> But it delivers enormous compounding gains, and you can use your agent to do significant parts of it for you.
Strong yes to both, so strong that it's curious Claude Code, Codex, Claude Cowork, etc., don't yet bake in an explicit knowledge evolution agent curating and evolving their markdown knowledge base:
Unlikely to help with benchmarks. Very likely to improve utility ratings (as rated by outcome improvements over time) from teams using the tools together.
For those following along at home:
This is the return of the "expert system", now running on a generalized "expert system machine".
The paradox in post is resolved by limiting the planning to Russian doll like nested timeframes and scopes, upgrading from endless 2 week sprints and quarterly or annual "planning" to cycles within cycles, scoped to human magnitudes of time, and JIT re-planned at the Nyquist interval of each cycle by those at the corresponding level of the enterprise org chart who must also be domain leads with mastery at that level and who have retained ability to probe two levels below while practiced at bringing along at least one level up.
The 1970 Royce paper was about how waterfall didn't work, and most "Agile" is a subset of DSDM, each flavor missing a necessary thing or two whether working in large systems or growing them greenfield from nothing. But DSDM wasn't "little a" agile (and SAFE just isn't). There is a middle way.
If you like applying this stuff (e.g. you've chatted with Gene Kim, follow Will Larsen, whatever, sure, but you've deliberately iterated your approach based on culture and outcome observability), feel free to drop me a note to user at Google's thing.
This sounds brilliant, makes too much sense, and suggests a new kind of ad blocker to escalate and reflect retribution back.
Unrelated: Once upon a time it was believed ads should pair with content, not with users. It's been proven to still be more effective. Problem (for advertisers) is reach vs. cost of producing ads that content-align. In any case, Apple has enough reach they could easily bring ad sales in-house. Plenty TV shows, the show owner retains rights to ad slots partly to ensure no brand damage to show and partly to make more money per slot.
The random-clickers have been around for a while, clicking through ads to try to break profiles on users and cost the ad networks more money than it is worth.
They have not been very successful in their goals. I suspect, without sarcasm, that that is because compared to the absolutely routine click-fraud conducted up and down the entire ad space at every level, those plugin's effects literally didn't even register. It's an arms race and people trying to use ad blockers to not just block the ads but corrupt them are coming armed with a pea shooter to an artillery fight, not because they are not very clever themselves but just without a lot of users they can't even get the needle to twitch.
I can't say the AI scripted AI voiced "my wife bet my abs vs. a trip to Paris" and "I ordered this and was going to throw it away but then the heavens opened and angels descended and gave me this Alibaba tchotchke" are harbingers of the idiocracy. Because it's already here.
// Adblock at DNS used to kill these Apple News ads. They're no longer suppressed. Free with their Plus all the things and aggregated my content subs but I quit using it. Had loved Texture, this now sucks.
Good question, what's the pitch:
“Vecti is a browser-based UI design tool built from the ground up with one core belief, that creators deserve tools built specifically for them. Better performance, better privacy, and better alignment with their actual needs. A tool that just works, built by someone who genuinely cares about the people using it.”
Hmm. Did founders of Balsamiq or Figma not care about the people using it? And who if not creators were they built for?
“Share & Present - Set viewer and editor permissions at the team or project level. When it's time to present … let your work shine.”
Oh, right, for the people who pay the creator.
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