design, AI, web dev, data viz, tools for thought ✨ @shv, previously R&D @GitHubNext, design @AdeptAILabs
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really loving this notch extension we're adding to Intent
not having to open the full app to give feedback feels magical
Amelia Wattenberger 🪷 retweeted
new in Intent today:
- Home: all your projects in one place
- list & board views
- search, filter & pin workspaces
- review GitHub PRs with inline diffs
- start workspaces from Linear issues & PRs
- diagrams render in Preview
- export diagrams as SVG
- simpler command palette
- smarter settings search
Amelia Wattenberger 🪷 retweeted
and you can get it now....
steer agents across devices, review their work in browsers, before & after screen shots, diagrams, code changes, etc. run terminals, scripts, custom agents across providers. all from your phone.
intentapp.dev
Amelia Wattenberger 🪷 retweeted
designers, you need a gorgeous mobile app for managing lots of agents across lots of devices to crush important client requests like...
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I'm looking for a kick-ass product person who wants to do two things:
1. Get deep into the operations side of early-stage startups.
2. Completely rethink HCI.
You don't have to be a traditional PM, but you do have to be:
• Product-obsessed.
• Design- and/or engineering-adjacent.
• AI-pilled (though it's OK to hate the term "AI-pilled").
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Reve's next chapter is going to be big, and we're moving fast. DM me to learn more. (No contractors, please.)
we need ways to make it clear what is…
- explicitly specified
- hinted at
- an agent assumption
any amount of the above is fine, but once code is in the codebase there’s no way to tease out what’s what
we've mostly gotten past the slop issue in this new world of working together with AI
the next problem is people keep accidentally undoing functionality
this is happening because everyone is more in everyone else's business. hit an issue? fix it right away without nagging anyone
the problem is it's unclear how intentional the current behavior is and what absolutely should not be rolled back
you can say tests should be this. but they don't capture the fact that you discarded seemingly valid solutions 1-4 and settled on 5. someone later (an agent) might thing "oh 3 is simpler"
any additional document also doesn't feel like it solves the problem because it's yet another thing that can drift
where is the source of truth for how your software is supposed to work?
how do we escape the chat trap? Maybe intelligent interfaces
wattenberger.com/thoughts/ai…
Amelia Wattenberger 🪷 retweeted
1. visual reviews
agents take before & after screenshots of their UI changes and place them side by side letting you judge results without reading code.
you manage agents, they manage more agents, those agents manage even more agents. chat threads break with that scale.
new article on useful views for what agents are planning, what they've already done, and how best to steer them: lukew.com/ff/2165/many-agent…
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This is the future. As “intelligence” (read: ability to turn inputs into outputs) becomes a commodity, the interface is where you can create most value to the user.
we're back at the command line!
there's so much good thinking to mine from from the last time we transitions from terminal -> gui. had some fun writing down a few thoughts
would love to hear what you think
wattenberger.com/thoughts/ai…
Amelia Wattenberger 🪷 retweeted
Excellent piece from Amelia Watternberger: AI is Still in Its Terminal Era.
we're back at the command line!
there's so much good thinking to mine from from the last time we transitions from terminal -> gui. had some fun writing down a few thoughts
would love to hear what you think
wattenberger.com/thoughts/ai…
Amelia Wattenberger 🪷 retweeted
This is my fav way to code with agents right now. Really well built tool.
Amelia Wattenberger 🪷 retweeted
many ways to stay on top of many agents:
new stacks UI in Intent makes seeing/knowing/steering large amounts of agents even easier.
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Put together a page collecting all the tabletop demos so far:
tabletop.grantcuster.com
really enjoying how these interactions turned out!
I put off making these examples until the last minute, but they're what finally convinced me to share. it's a just a small thing, but encourages the thinking that we can have tactile, more direct interfaces while leveraging our AI overlords
we're back at the command line!
there's so much good thinking to mine from from the last time we transitions from terminal -> gui. had some fun writing down a few thoughts
would love to hear what you think
wattenberger.com/thoughts/ai…
the potential to create entirely custom environments for creating is really only held back by our imagination
it took one prompt to add an editing surface directly on the post itself. "let me edit the text and symbols with a keybinding and save it to disk"
we're back at the command line!
there's so much good thinking to mine from from the last time we transitions from terminal -> gui. had some fun writing down a few thoughts
would love to hear what you think
wattenberger.com/thoughts/ai…
Amelia Wattenberger 🪷 retweeted
everybody moved from Terminal UI to combing coding tools with chat clients, but we don’t think dev tools have reached their final form yet.
we're back at the command line!
there's so much good thinking to mine from from the last time we transitions from terminal -> gui. had some fun writing down a few thoughts
would love to hear what you think
wattenberger.com/thoughts/ai…