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Charles Wu

@charleswu.ca

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Thoughts on product, tech, design, and AI. Currently @Asana, Enterprise.

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Charles Wu @charleswu.ca · 13/02/2025

On the other hand $NU trying to push through some resistance. Bullish on it long term though

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Charles Wu @charleswu.ca · 13/02/2025

$HOOD popping off this week. Soft ceiling reached or will it keep 🚀?

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Charles Wu @charleswu.ca · 13/02/2025

How are product designers incorporating AI into their work (if at all?) Beyond just the sparkly iconography— I’m wondering if there’s like an AI-specific design system

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Charles Wu @charleswu.ca · 01/02/2025

Does Bluesky remove exif data from photo uploads?

Sunset in California, looking over a forest into the ocean

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Casey Newton @caseynewton.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

DeepSeek took off in part because, in a first, it offered a reasoning model that explains to you what it's doing. Its success shows how little AI product teams have done so far to make their products appealing to normal people: www.platformer.news/deepseek-des...

How else could chatbots be made more appealing? The popularity of r1’s chain of thought suggests that they should communicate more about their process, and in particular offer the user guidance on how to refine their queries when they don’t get the answer they’re looking for. Just telling users how a chatbot understood their question seems to build an outsized amount of trust.

I also think there’s something appealing about r1’s humility — in conveying its own lack of certainty, it sounds less like the authoritative robots we have come to expect and more like Star Wars’ C-3PO. That’s somewhat counterintuitive — I don’t know many people who think the final form of superintelligence is a bumbling droid — and yet too often we forget how alien and unapproachable these systems remain to all but the most devoted AI nerds.

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