josefrichter

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: josef.richter@me.com

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.

As someone who practised tax law for global companies for a few years, I can say that the correct classification of some invoices from the tax law perspective requires a full-blown legal analysis.

That involves full interpretation of the law, which includes "teleology" - that is, understanding the purpose and goals of the law. We are probably (?) not yet at the point where frontier models can do this better than humans.

In other words, it's the same question as when AI will replace judges. Not lawyers, but judges themselves.

No, I can’t. The way you frame your question tells me you’re not seeking enlightenment.

Why so much negativity? I find these projects interesting for learning purposes and exploring new ways. What’s wrong with that?

Product Designers & Product Engineers - how about both in one? What they sometimes call Design Engineer these days - or should I just apply for both? :-D

Design Engineer & Builder, 15y of experience

Location: Czechia, EU Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: No Technologies: Figma, Open Design, Elixir BEAM, Node JS/TS, Python, Swift, Ruby, some Rust, Go Résumé/CV: https://josefrichter.design/cv Email: josef.richter@me.com

I design stuff & I build it. Shipped production apps, agent-ready/agent-first, mcps, apis, agents, loops.. See https://josefrichter.design/blog and https://github.com/josefrichter

Past: Enaia, Medable, T-Mobile, Vodafone — 792 PRs in my current role - "I build" is real.

Sol, Terra, Luna – crypto disaster vibes

It wasn't broken before?