Pavel A. Samsonov
Design is the rendering of care.
💼Problem design, user experience, product, decision-making, software development 🎓CMU MHCI, YSDN 🔵Sick of rectangles.
designing at the intersection of 0 and f(x)=1/x
2025: AI is cheaper than a human worker! It will help your business cut costs!
2026: if each one of your developers isn't also paying a full senior developer salary to an LLM, you are a fool and a child. AI writes 70% of our code which also happens to be our service uptime ratio.
The reason there are no more good ideas in tech is that every office has these "low odor" whiteboard markers. Ten years ago, every Design Thinking session participant was way more creative because they were strung out on marker fumes.
Baffled that there are people who still share AI-generated images with a sense of pride rather than intense shame
A ladle is rarely counted among a witch's famous implements, but how else are they going to dole out potions from a steaming hot cauldron?
Plus, you can whack a goblin with it if they try to get rowdy.
Demand better from your books, movies, and video games. Demand equippable magic ladles.
justifying why the ai didn't work, call that vibe coping
Execs are confused: we forced you to use all these powerful AI tools and yet our profits aren't 10x! What gives?
Individual productivity is always downstream of strategy. And the same "more, faster!" attitude that creates incremental improvements in delivery speed means that leaders rush through strategy formation.
If the tasks don't add up to anything meaningful, no amount of model improvements will help you.
https://productpicnic.beehiiv.com/p/even-with-a-silver-bullet-you-still-have-to-aim
Happy pride to the super bisexuals
Due to a need for budget austerity, we are now means-testing the benefit of the doubt
who called them AI CEOs and not large language moguls
Execs think that AI can magically fix all their org's problems: their data problem, their PDLC problem, their PMF problem.
But AI is not magic. It's just a technology — and like all novel technologies, incorporating it into your process only expands the number of things that can and will go wrong.
https://productpicnic.beehiiv.com/p/ai-is-not-a-substitute-for-knowing-how-to-run-software-projects
"sure it doesn't work TODAY but the technology is getting better every day!!" was a more compelling argument when you were actually allowed to use the better technology
“Amazon, Walmart, Cisco, Uber and Meta are among early adopters that have introduced caps, discouraged wasteful use or pushed employees to cheaper models in a bid to keep AI spending under control.”
https://www.ft.com/content/1d37cc08-e0aa-45a4-a45d-4ad282529314
Paris aims his shot perfectly, striking Achilles straight in the heel. But Achilles stands up unharmed — the arrow was deflected by the lucky cigarette case he kept stuffed in his sandal
Who called it "Q Branch" and not 007-Eleven
"What doesn't mog you makes you maxxer" —ancient Gen Z saying
the name "godzilla" implies an even more enormous lizard monster called a godza


