The good news is you’ll be more productive.
Maybe your boss will pay you the same for 2 days work?
“Over the long-term horizon it’s difficult to envision what tasks AI will not be able to do. “
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You don’t need animated backgrounds, spinning text, or glowing buttons to drive conversions.
People forget that the best pages are often the simplest ones.
Check out what brian casel is doing over at instrumentalproducts.com as an example.
The focus is on the copy, a clean look, and minimal distractions.
Thinking of two word brand names and trying to avoid common mistakes.
If you are a developer and you don’t think AI is coming to seriously reshape your industry you aren’t paying attention.
Companies are already cutting back on developer hires as they figure it out.
Learn to pair with AI now. You’ll lose to new hires if you don’t.
Become an expert in a niche that’s harder for AI to take over completely. Knowledge of internal systems by AI is further off.
Improve your front end skills and UX. Generative AI is terrible UI/UX.
This. The gap between the person with the idea and the execution is shrinking.
“More people will become visual creators, and existing designers will be able to create more ambitious experiences than ever before.”
When I joined Microsoft in 2000 working on Visual Studio the vision was always to remove the barriers that stood between the people with the vision and the output.
Meaning.. ideally you wouldn’t need to know C++ to make cool things. You could have a vision for a cool thing and work with simpler tools to make it real.
It’s getting closer to that vision now.
Also good advice for parents. Set good examples and get more trash taken out.
OpenAi was not the first at creating AI personas. But they’ve done it best so far.
The future will be personas paired with knowledge workers optimized for specific tasks in daily workflows.
The job of the worker will be fact checking, refining, and doing the most fun parts of the work.
Meanwhile the paired AI will be refined on feedback from each output and business results.
AI Beatles are coming.
The only question is how the lawsuits will shake out.
Most fitting family costume.
Happy Halloween!
Cold, but pretty day for Sam and I to run.
Sad to see this place (and others) closing. I thought VR arcades had a chance to take off, but they all used expensive computer equipment and never found product market fit.
Meta should build out VR storefronts with arcade rentals as a way to hype the at home versions.
Enjoy life like Lucy dog.
A fun afternoon exploring Vashon island with our new little and fur babies.
Celebrating Sam dogs 4th birthday with a couple of treats.
Testing a new headline and tagline this week.
Thoughts?
You can’t design for everyone.
Two pieces of software can solve the same problems in two very different ways.
Each way could be perfect for one customer sets way of thinking, but terrible for another set.
That’s Ok as long as you know which set you serve.
Purple potatoes?
This also applies to running a bootstrapped SaaS company.
Finally got the Kickofflabs AI campaign builder working for waitlist campaigns and able to draft text on ALL of our page templates!
Waitlist for a company that wants to sell brain teasers for dogs.
It’s also generating the emails, name, legal rules, meta-data, etc etc etc for the campaign.
Is it enough for existing companies to add-on AI or do they need to rethink from an AI-first mentality?
Will they?
It’s not shipping for a week or so, but here is a pass at the KickoffLabs lead based pricing page. How to simplify more?
Over the weekend I had a few minutes so I added filtering to the AI tool (sparks) in Content Spark.
Much easier to navigate now that we have more than a few and support custom sparks for your team.
Has AI gone too far here?
Nah. Just right.