Ravi retweeted
Claude Code is one of the worst named products. It's not just for code.
Watch this Hermès ad.
30 seconds. 8 shots. Voice. Music. Even text branding burned in with ffmpeg. Clopus 4.5 wrote a script, orchestrated ElevenLabs, Google Veo 3, downloaded music and made this from scratch.
Ravi retweeted
.@ryolu_ talks about why "final designs" don't make sense in software:
"The first mock is never right."
"Because AI is really good at composing parts, we need to build good bricks."
Ep. 34: Ryo Lu - It's all the Same Thing
@ryolu_ leads design at @cursor_ai: the ai-enabled coding tool that has become one of the fastest growing startups ever. He has spent his career building great software tools, from Notion to Stripe to Asana.
Ryo is deeply philosophical, but he strongly favors pragmatism over ideology. This balance makes for a great tension of thinking and doing, and leads to prolific output.
He is constantly balancing simplicity and complexity, order and chaos, realness and abstraction.
There is no better example of Ryo's approach than his frequently personal project, ryOS, a (mostly) "vibe-coded" website that is full of soul, not slop. Link below.
Ryo treats software like an organism or ecosystem to be shaped. To him, creation feels less like painting and more like working with clay. He argues that thanks to how far tools like Cursor have come, anyone who makes software should get closer to shaping the raw material: code.
Of course, this is a reminder to any creative to not get too far from their material. And to all of us--in a world of automation--to remember that our distinctiveness is what makes us invaluable. Please enjoy.
Timestamps:
0:00 - Opening
0:44 - Notion & Dialectic' Future
5:30 - Intro
8:57 - "It's All the Same Thing!"
18:37 - Technical and Conceptual Readiness and How AI Helps us Deal with Complexity
22:14 - Designing for True-ness and Inevitability
28:45 - Practicality and False-Compromise
35:01 - Working with Material and Different Ways of Thinking
45:23 - ryOS and Designing for the Full Spectrum of Users
1:00:55 - Allowing for Slack and Some Amount of Chaos in Design
1:06:17 - What is Cursor, Conceptually?
1:12:00 - How Using Cursor Evolves
1:17:16 - Designing for Power While Not Alienating Users
1:21:25 - How Ryo Designs at Cursor: Abstractions, Writing, and Prototyping
1:25:23 - Process, Creating Soulful Things with AI, Refining Taste
1:32:34 - Balancing Agility and Quality, Chaos and Order
1:38:26 - Great Teams and Great Products
1:41:07 - Grab Bag: Human Tech, Why Tools Need Stories, Why Cursor Isn’t a Slot Machine, Notion & Cursor, Steve Jobs, Liquid Glass
1:57:45 - Tenderness & Empathy
Available on X and all platforms, with transcript below.
Ravi retweeted
A photos-only social app won't work now. It succeeded in the 2000s because photos were enough to express ourselves uniquely, but with their abundance and how easy it is to fabricate them, depth has become essential for self-expression. The stories behind our cluttered galleries need to be highlighted. Writing captions was never fun. We should retain the simplicity of our networks while giving more control over whom we share memories with. At @twinememories we leverage AI to create a space where humans stories and connections thrive.
Ravi retweeted
We're building Twine...
...transforming how memories shape identity and connection.
A way to preserve and share the stories, context, and meaning behind our memories. Not just photos and videos.
If this resonates with you, join the waitlist now: forms.gle/F5bJ7D4ZfEhZezzQ7
Ravi retweeted
fun bit of history: early consumer browsers like Netscape had a full visual web page editor
and it was called Composer
Ravi retweeted
Friend unboxing video
@AviSchiffmann cooked on the packaging 👌
This is Apple level stuff
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Introducing Gemini 2.5 Flash Image (aka nano-banana), our SOTA image generation and editing model 🍌
As you might have already seen, this model excels at character consistency, creative edits, and has Gemini's world knowledge!
Ravi retweeted
Nano Banana can create a consistent character across scenes.
Change the environment, camera angle and location whilst keeping consistency.
Extremely powerful, and am impressed how it keeps the same color/filter style.
