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here's my portfolio website btw
preetsuthar.me
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Subtle reminder that you're supposed to feel overwhelmed.
It means you're doing something new. You're taking a new path. You're learning. Growing. You branched into the unknown. It will be frustrating. You will feel lost. It will be painful, but staying the same is even worse.
the most underrated part of vercel's ui-sdk: your components become actions an ai agent can call.
no screenshots, no clicking pixels. just snapshot() and act().
wrote a hands-on guide with webmcp.
hextaui.com/blog/ui-sdk-webm…
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vercel shipped ui-sdk yesterday. the components come unstyled.
time to publish them on hextaui
- color picker, date picker, tree
- token input, rating, image cropper
- copy-in with the shadcn cli
cc @shadcn @shuding
hextaui.com/docs/ui-sdk-colo…
how shapes melt into each other
preetsuthar.me/writing/how-s…
How browsers break lines.
preetsuthar.me/writing/how-b…
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this is pretty cool!!
Where does your AI keep everything you’ve told it?
The 2am stuff. The passwords you typed while an agent was running. Your browsing history.
Right now the answer is “on a server somewhere.” Agents are finally good enough to actually run your errands, and the price is that your whole life goes with them. We didn’t love that trade.
So we built a computer your agents can live on, at home.
Otto is a little box that sits on your desk. The agents are already on it when it arrives. You plug it in, tap your phone to it, and that’s the whole setup!
Everything they read, type and remember stays in your house.
- Agents set up before it ships, nothing to install
- 2,000+ apps with one tap, passwords stay on the box
- Thinks on the box, uses the cloud only if you tell it to
- Check in and approve things from your phone, anywhere.
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Preet Suthar retweeted
Where does your AI keep everything you’ve told it?
The 2am stuff. The passwords you typed while an agent was running. Your browsing history.
Right now the answer is “on a server somewhere.” Agents are finally good enough to actually run your errands, and the price is that your whole life goes with them. We didn’t love that trade.
So we built a computer your agents can live on, at home.
Otto is a little box that sits on your desk. The agents are already on it when it arrives. You plug it in, tap your phone to it, and that’s the whole setup!
Everything they read, type and remember stays in your house.
- Agents set up before it ships, nothing to install
- 2,000+ apps with one tap, passwords stay on the box
- Thinks on the box, uses the cloud only if you tell it to
- Check in and approve things from your phone, anywhere.
a small detail for ai chat
when the user hits stop mid answer, keep the half sentence and mark it as stopped.
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i can generate ten hextaui blocks in an hour now.
usually two ship.
the other eight look fine in the screenshot and fall apart on: empty data, a 40 character label, keyboard only, or a slow network. agents get the happy path right almost every time. the rest is still the job.
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the two that ship are the ones in hextaui blocks.
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everyone's sharing design.md files for agents this week.
mine for hextaui fits on one screen:
- 6 color tokens, no raw hex
- spacing scale, nothing off it
- the one primary button
- states every block needs: empty, loading, error
- a banned list: gradients, second spinner, icon buttons without labels
the banned list does more work than the rest.
what's on yours?
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i've seen the same split on ui work.
the model that writes the cleanest component api isn't always the one that gets the states right. for hextaui blocks i care more about the second. a pretty block that forgets the error state fails review anyway.
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states over api polish is the review bar for hextaui blocks.
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i think quantity still works for posts and experiments. it stopped working for the thing people install.
with hextaui i can generate ten blocks in an hour now. the ones that ship are the ones that survive empty, loading, error and keyboard. most don't on the first pass.
have always fought for:
quantity > quality
counter-intuitive but that's how you get the highest quality imo
with AI I'm not so sure anymore
your reputation is one of the most important thing to protect - so don't ship slop
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that's the bar every hextaui block has to clear before it ships.
hextaui.com/blocks?utm_sourc…
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