Reposted by AhmadSteve Farrugia @fasterandworse.com · 24/04/2026As soon as you defend a product with "it isn't useless" you're doing the thing the maker wants you to do. NOTHING is useless. It's the lowest bar for anything that exists, including a rock. What you're looking for is "it is the best thing that exists for this concrete purpose" then we can talk. 219443
Ahmad @ismailahmad.com · 23/04/2026When they train the model, they forget they’re also training us to recognize its work. I am sure I am not alone in this, AI work is now distinct enough to tell apart Claude work from Chatgpt. 100
Reposted by AhmadRachit Dubey @rachitdubey.bsky.social · 07/04/2026🚨New preprint and our results are rather concerning.. We find the "boiling frog" equivalent of AI use. Using large-scale RCTs, we provide *casual* evidence that AI assistance reduces persistence and hurts independent performance. And these effects emerge after just 10–15 minutes of AI use! 1/ 261533684
Ahmad @ismailahmad.com · 17/03/2026The industry did well enough to make a lot of people accidentally rich, which attracted people who were now expecting to get rich, so they got pissed off they weren't getting rich as quickly as the last group. That's when the problems switched from "what do people need" to "I'm not rich yet.buttondown.comHow to grow strawberriesFeels so good to have a studio again. This week’s question comes to us from Anthea Tawia: I came to San Francisco to visit the company I work for—sadly I was... 000
Reposted by AhmadPavel @spavel.bsky.social · 19/02/2026Once, technology solved problems. People liked having problems solved, so they liked technology. Tech execs started to think of that sentiment as their due. So when they stopped solving problems, and people stopped liking them, they became outraged. "How dare you not love whatever we give you?" 191354369
Reposted by AhmadLynn Fisher @lynnandtonic.com · 08/12/2025You too can make a tiny, fixed-width website in the year of our lord 2025 ⚡️ lynnandtonic.comlynnandtonic.comLynn FisherLynn Fisher is a web designer, CSS developer, and artist from Phoenix, Arizona. 2824139
Ahmad @ismailahmad.com · 13/11/2025Talked a bit about envy. open.substack.com/pub/wndrgrnd...open.substack.comEnvy.I can't stop asking these questions, are my desires truly mine, or a reflections of others influence? 020
Ahmad @ismailahmad.com · 03/11/2025My take on Affinity being 100% free. Of cos I am excited, but I am also skeptical. So I wrote my thought down, and will be correcting my self as time goes and their strategy reveals. open.substack.com/pub/wndrgrnd...open.substack.comAffinity is "free", at what cost?Last year Canva acquired Affinity a professional design tools alternative to Adobe for several undisclosed millions of dollars, it was exciting and comes with a breathe of fresh air for the creative c... 020
Reposted by AhmadSteve Farrugia @fasterandworse.com · 24/09/2025Dispatch #31: Anti-Design Design to compensate for a lack of design Video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=V3eL... Audio: pnc.st/s/faster-and... 1/xyoutube.comDispatch #31: Anti-DesignYouTube video by Faster and Worse 55018
Reposted by AhmadUX How @uxhow.bsky.social · 01/08/2025minihf.com/posts/2025-0...minihf.comOn "ChatGPT Psychosis" and LLM SycophancyJohn David Pressman 021
Ahmad @ismailahmad.com · 04/04/2025Sometimes it’s good to stepped outside and watch the sun and water. Favorite part, waiting for the sunlight 040
Ahmad @ismailahmad.com · 05/03/2025Focusing is hard! Onward, I have decided to just stick with three areas — Business, Software Design and Technology! Because learning is so addictive, you can easily fall into the rabbit hole, biting everything without committing to it! This road leads to mediocrity. 141
Ahmad @ismailahmad.com · 05/03/2025"The hard part isn’t finding proof before you begin. The hard part is beginning, knowing you might not succeed." — Seth 100
Reposted by AhmadJohanna Sneed @johannasneed.com · 25/02/2025TLDR: a personal wiki. They’re notes and ideas linked together by association. Less formal than a blog and embrace the concept of learning in public. M. Appleton’s post on the concept is often cited! Use of gen AI has made so many blogs unreadable for me, so I’m finding gardens refreshing to read.maggieappleton.comA Brief History & Ethos of the Digital GardenA newly revived philosophy for publishing personal knowledge on the web 151
Ahmad @ismailahmad.com · 05/02/2025The word here is not “anti-design.” It’s more like “anti-quality”—speed at the detriment of craft. Love is rarely poured into software these days, except by the crazy ones who defy the odds. Art itself is deteriorating, maybe due to all the new definitions (I could be wrong). 120
Ahmad @ismailahmad.com · 01/02/2025A lot is not going as planned, feels like chaos is all around. But this peace, this peace, where is it coming from. 000
Ahmad @ismailahmad.com · 31/01/2025Human’s clamor for something that’s outside their control, it’s why we invented religion—to yearn, worship, but since that system is flatlining and no longer serving us we seek something fresh, unique relatively owned by us — this generations. 100
Ahmad @ismailahmad.com · 19/01/2025Universe does have a way of keeping scores. Both evil and good are sometimes equally rewarded. I am not talking about karma here. 000
Reposted by AhmadAysha U. Farah @ayshaufarah.bsky.social · 08/01/2025all art is made from spite or horniness, and a computer cannot be spiteful or horny, so a computer should never make art 263163584361