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I think one of the nice examples is agentic design systems.

On one hand, you set some boundaries on user interface layout, flow, allowed components, etc. so that the interface looks & feels like belonging to the same product every time.

On the other hand, you may decide to leave more "creative freedom" in some other areas. The fun part comes when you let it work in semi-realtime in production, and get sort of generative/organic UI. I enjoy experimenting with that these days.

Hmm I'm thinking:

- I'd hire someone who keeps building even when jobless.

What you build is your CV/Cover, and your learning opportunity. These days, you have to know LLMs inside and out, which means using them heavily to learn.

- The subscription is probably below or around the daily rate, so it pays off quickly.

I'd argue that it's an investment in your education - not only learning to work with LLMs, but also using LLMs to teach you almost anything (even beyond tech).

It's surprisingly good, especially after lunch. But it's generally older men's thing, not very common among youngsters.

Senior Design Engineer - Design Systems

Location: Czechia, EU

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: Figma, Paper, Claude Design, Open Design, Elixir, Phoenix, LiveView, Hologram, BEAM, Node, TypeScript, React, Next.js, React Native, Swift, Swift UI, Ruby, some Rust, Go

Résumé/CV: https://josefrichter.design/cv

Email: [email protected]

Equal parts designer and developer (not vibe coder)

Focusing on agentic design systems these days - full validation loops, smarter governance, proper testing, etc. Building some design factories, experimenting with genUI - check the latest snippets at https://www.linkedin.com/in/josefrichter/ too, and https://josefrichter.design/blog

Past: T-Mobile, Vodafone, Medable, Enaia, various fintech

You ought to sue. It's a matter of principle. It's bigger than you.

I’ve been a designer (and developer) for 15+ years now. AI can produce better design than 80% of human designers already. Those we scream “AI can’t replace me” the loudest are those whom it already did.

it's not thinly veiled

Even at MVP startups that's not true anymore. It's now easier to build native than to deal with RN quirks.

You can pivot to design systems. I believe they’re 80% development problem and just 20% design problem really.

bill gates, I want my time back!

Nobody really cares anymore, right? All this nonsense will be reversed the first day his successor steps into the Oval Office.

Surprised it’s not banned there yet. It’s banned in Czechia, so I was expecting it to be the same across the whole EU.

Tracks in Czechia are mostly missing. It’s known as a country with the most dense railroad network in the world.

Centering a div? Impossible.

LLMs are like fire: great servant, terrible master

Senior Design Engineer

Location: Czechia, EU

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: Figma, Paper, Claude Design, Open Design, Elixir, Phoenix, LiveView, Hologram, BEAM, Node, TypeScript, React, Next.js, React Native, Swift, Swift UI, Ruby, some Rust, Go

Résumé/CV: https://josefrichter.design/cv

Email: [email protected]

Turns out "design engineer" is the new name for what I've been doing for 10+ years. Product/ux/ui design of complex Saas and mobile products. Full-stack development in Elixir, JS/TS, Swift,.. Shipped production apps, agent-ready/agent-first, mcps, apis, agents, loops..

See https://josefrichter.design/blog and https://github.com/josefrichter

Past: T-Mobile, Vodafone, Medable, Enaia, various fintech

Fabulous! I studied Air Traffic Management. Kinda like Lift Traffic Management, just with airplanes :-)

Tailwind requires a certain mental shift. That typically comes on a project where you feel like "there needs to be a better way", then you read https://tailwindcss.com/docs/styling-with-utility-classes and feel like BINGO!

Using @apply totally KILLS Tailwind - that's the clearest tell that the author didn't have that moment yet. Hence the other arguments in the article that feel somewhat petty.

lol great thread

Side note to author: the web renders really bad on mobile

BEAM, the Elixir runtime, happens to be the perfect choice for agents and orchestration of multi-agent systems. I’ve written about it e.g. here https://josefrichter.design/blog/crowd

There’s an app called Obi that does exactly this.

https://rideobi.com/

It’s been around for years now. The great thing about it is it works worldwide - so if you come to a country and have no clue which company operates there, you just open Obi.

Wait, I am not aware that I've done ANY of those setup steps, yet I'm building iOS and macOS apps without XCode. Both Claude and Codex handle it just fine and didn't ask me for any setup steps.

he's sharing an idea, not "text". text is just a medium.

you can use LFE (Lisp flavored erlang) = lisp on BEAM runtime.

you get a snippet from LLM, compile it to module, and hot-load it into the running node. the module lives in the node's code table, so it persists and every other agent can call it. not just the one that wrote it.

the agents themselves are seaprate supervised processes, so if one crashes - e.g. because the snippet was crap, it doesn't take down whole system.

of course you can do that in just elixir too, the lisp is just cosmetics really.

is that wrong though? you write all your code with AI already, but you still need to supervise and steer it. same with blog posts - as long as you steer it towards converying your point, it doesn't matter the text itself was written by AI rather than typed by you, does it?

Is there a catch? If not, this would be super useful.