ai

Blasted the newsletter yesterday, and heard back from a few friends with life updates. Andre shared this, which if the AI quality is true, is fairly astonishing and frightening

In a local friend tech iMessage group, rumours confirmed Anthropic is opening, or at least hiring people in Vancouver! Sort by BC - anthropic.com/careers/jobs

It’s monsoon, rainy af… worked super late last night, trying to ship v0 of new landing pages, but ai copy never feels human, or like my tone of voice. Rewriting the copy manually, and will a/b test it.

Came across this hilarious portfolio with lol CTA hover -> iamarnob.com

Don’t shoot the messenger: besides manus, the AI wave in Singapore and SE Asia is moving at roughly 30% of North America’s pace.

today / wip

• spending 20-30 minutes per day in Figma, rebuilding graphic design muscles
• looking for new swipe file systems (help?)
• invited a few friends to Ship10, and despite the inner cringe, I’m committing to writing daily logs alongside it, at least for the next 10 days
• prototyping a mini app, hoping to ship / send that by monday am

It’s day 8 post mouth surgery and my neck has a huge gnarly bruise. Walked down to Granville Island to Ellipsis to regroup plans for my personal website + presence.

Yesterday I was hoping to avoid Figma entirely for the rebuild, but I’m rethinking it. Might make sense to create a lightweight style guide first (created this with Claude a few hours ago, rough - kenny.is/style-guide) and use Figma as a scratchpad, not the source of truth. I guess moving fwd, the internet is source of truth (copy, design, agents, etc), not offline docs, linear, or figma files.

On the walk I couldn’t help but think; have we outsourced soul to the CLI? Or are we in the process of doing that? Or… what’s actually going on here.

More importantly, the wifi is pretty soft, so I’m in planning / writing mode for now.

2 meetings with founders this afternoon and hoping to touch grass before sun runs away.

setting up small ship 10 group on wa and project planning. Digging into linear agents + website plan + survey.. Cramming in some work before 1230 meet.

anyone want to join a Ship10 challenge? an excuse to ship + learn ai tools for 10 day sprint

• build a new side quest, feature, or skill
• ship something (big or small) once per day with a proof of work link
• miss a day = booted
• small private group (WA), low effort, no need to chat, feedback optional, mostly for accountability

dm if wanna join

Instead of focusing on the process of unlearning to adopt ai, I’m thinking about offline neuroplasticity-maxxing in parallel.

Building ai digital neuroplasticity skills feels different? Do we need to lean into new offline skills to protect the mind and encourage non ai pathways?

Anyone gone deep on this subject? Who? Keen to read and learn more.

it’s exciting, but the software industry has traded uptime and stability for speed and AI deployment

everyones answer is ship moarrr

so when best practices and craft are thrown out in favor of a ship-at-all-costs mindset, we’ll end up with far more outages, data breaches, and downtime