iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

stephanie @sclawr.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

if you are also A Knick, you can try it yourself. I use Tailwind for my site, you can use any theme changer plugin, and the Knicks logo font generator: pixelframe.design/new-york-kni... Note: I do not use ANY ai on my site. all of this was done by me messing around with code and procreate

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stephanie @sclawr.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

👋🏿 it’s been a while. I’ve been on Threads, but I wanted to post here as well: I’ve definitely caught that KNICKS IN 5 energy 💙🧡💙🧡, and made a little update to my website

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stephanie @sclawr.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

New link in bio: contact.slawrencedesign.com I'm currently available for engagements and in-house work, so that means a revamp to my online presence 🎉 You can go here to contact me, view my profiles and projects, or schedule time to meet with me.

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stephanie @sclawr.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

why sign up for a another link in bio service, when i can remix what i already have? I want centralized links AND a centralized process without a billion logins and this way, I keep it under my URL. let's see how this goes.

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stephanie @sclawr.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

no shade to vibe coding! i just remember when you had to walk ten miles one way in the snow to compile some css files, that’s all

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stephanie @sclawr.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

i do not give my frontend skills enough credit. i really did build my whole portfolio site. i’ve done work on multiple sites that aren’t mine. but i always felt weird because i have to look things up and sometimes use templates and boilerplate. but no more, with how y’all are out here vibe coding

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stephanie @sclawr.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

since it is the topic of the hour: if you need someone to help you move away from substack, and set up a blog elsewhere, i can help you. contact me here, or check out my portfolio. or don’t, you have lots of options! so many options! but you don’t have to stay there with tater tot, i promise

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stephanie @sclawr.bsky.social · 08/11/2025

phew…what a week it has been!

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Hipster Vampire Amy @lasrina.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

Reposting because, and I say this with love, some of you are going to see this and go “oh shit, I need to check my bottle” and then immediately forget about it so if this could affect you, go check right now before you even scroll to the next post, I mean it.

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stephanie @sclawr.bsky.social · 26/10/2025

i could have cried when i added that input tag and saw it work i’m still exploring so I don’t know much, but i’m just gonna sit in my little bubble of happy and enjoy it for now, because this is what i wanted

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a man in a suit and tie is making a sad face in front of a window .

ALT: a man in a suit and tie is making a sad face in front of a window .

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stephanie @sclawr.bsky.social · 26/10/2025

why the fuck did none of you tell me that figma lets you add code in your designs now. WHY the final boss of prototyping, putting in functional textboxes, finally defeated. And everyone talks about the AI features instead. this is what makes me beef with ai, it is such a distraction

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stephanie @sclawr.bsky.social · 25/10/2025

and yes i know automation tools have ai integrations, so i am simplifying a lot. the point is that the bar for what is called “AI” moves around a lot, and seems to be based on what is considered too technical or “damn kinda hard to figure out” in that context.

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stephanie @sclawr.bsky.social · 25/10/2025

update on this: i’m messing around with self-hosting n8n, and…it’s automation. one day i will investigate why so much of what gets slapped with an “AI” label is just automation with a chat interface instead of drag n drop nodes.

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stephanie @sclawr.bsky.social · 17/10/2025

on a more positive note: it’s apple season, and i have discovered Somerset apples. I recommend 200% for making apple pie filling, they have the right balance of crispness, juiciness, tartness, and sweetness, to carry the flavor by themselves. Also, they are MASSIVE, the slices are fun to eat.

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stephanie @sclawr.bsky.social · 16/10/2025

a clarification, since I’m realizing this may be confusing: this reply rate is for something like randomly calling numbers for a national survey. Imagine you just pull out a national phone book & call one by one until you get enough ppl to talk to you. Think about the sheer randomness of that.

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stephanie @sclawr.bsky.social · 16/10/2025

at BEST, AI does not pass a null hypothesis sniff test. At worst, it is a robotic troll actively trying to harm people, cancelling out whatever good it might have done. Either one is a nightmare scenario.

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stephanie @sclawr.bsky.social · 16/10/2025

jesus christ i just saw this. this is it, this is what i’m talking about. The numbers are warning us about AI, people are warning us, and shit is already causing obvious problems. bsky.app/profile/eman...

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stephanie @sclawr.bsky.social · 16/10/2025

But I am sure as fuck gonna be pissed about my resume, and demand better of any emerging technology that is being used on a widespread scale for serious things. And I won’t have any trust in it to handle anything until I see actual evidence of its ability. Not just a promise and VC money.

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stephanie @sclawr.bsky.social · 16/10/2025

Fuck scanning my resume correctly, when we already had shit that could do that 5 years ago. Don’t “oops all berries” diagnosing diseases or prescribing medications, and bring the achievement of effective modern medicine to random chance numbers. That’d be worse than balancing humors and leeches.

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stephanie @sclawr.bsky.social · 16/10/2025

they’re riding that light-hearted pushback and optimism to the bank, and burning up fresh water for an illusion of efficiency and expertise, all covered by a “whoopsie-daisy” attitude around accuracy. “give it time” my ass, don’t put it into production until it actually works. don’t fuck with ppl.

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stephanie @sclawr.bsky.social · 16/10/2025

I’m not gonna be “optimistic” about AI when this is what’s happening. I want standards around usage and output, proper guardrails, accountability standards, and regulation. I’ll be a debbie downer, I’m kinda tired of the joking about it now, because the people making money from AI are benefitting

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stephanie @sclawr.bsky.social · 16/10/2025

AI is gonna start to be used more for medical purposes. We can already see how bad it is with diagnoses, but this “progress” is still moving forward. It can’t handle resumes. This is a Bad situation.

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stephanie @sclawr.bsky.social · 16/10/2025

There’s a systemic issue at play, and the impact is worse than you’d expect, even with an economic downturn. AI spewing bs is something we should have taken way more seriously before, but now is the next best time.

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stephanie @sclawr.bsky.social · 16/10/2025

and right NOW people use AI for hiring, and that ai is giving funky results, and maybe it gets better later, but people need jobs In the present for there to even be future jobs. That’s how economies work. There is no “toughening up” or “staying positive” through something at this scale.

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stephanie @sclawr.bsky.social · 16/10/2025

people get fired NOW by employers thinking AI can do their job. People use AI NOW to make things that are poorly built. They’ll realize their error later, but the present doesn’t go away just bc the future can be hopeful. That hopeful future is built on top of the present, and depends on it.

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stephanie @sclawr.bsky.social · 16/10/2025

it’s gunny when we’re talking about weird looking human hands and janky music, but less funny when you talk about people’s lives. And for all of the talk of AI getting better, tell me: how does that happen? And how do we survive until it does? because it is being used NOW and having impact NOW.

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stephanie @sclawr.bsky.social · 16/10/2025

This isn’t a thread about solutions, because that’s kinda the point. AI creates the kind of problems that you can’t solution away, because the system is opaque, and often used by people that did not create it. And the creators are not incentivized to prevent these issues, let alone solve them.

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stephanie @sclawr.bsky.social · 16/10/2025

Because we are all basically dealing with random chance at this point. That, and factors we cannot realistically circumvent. we can plan and do our best, but it’s also ok to realize that things are capital-B Bad right now. the numbers support that.

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stephanie @sclawr.bsky.social · 16/10/2025

there are so many factors involved that candidates have no control over, no matter the advice or tricks available, even ones that worked before. There is something seriously broken in the current system, and AI usage AND error is a big part of it. So be easy on yourself and recognize the issue.

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stephanie @sclawr.bsky.social · 16/10/2025

Bc AI is imperfect, and you cannot plan around its imperfections or errors. Transparently, I have gotten stock rejections for roles, only to be contacted by a human recruiter later. I recently saw an AI scan result of my resume, showing I was “missing” exp that was directly mentioned in it.

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stephanie @sclawr.bsky.social · 16/10/2025

what does that mean? for all of the advice given about tailoring applications, the end result is about the same as randomly applying. and it makes sense, bc AI is being used to filter applicants, and the advice given is for human filtering. and tailoring for the AI is not a guarantee either.

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stephanie @sclawr.bsky.social · 16/10/2025

Another reflection I have on the job hunt: Looking at the numbers of responses to applications, the rates look pretty low, about 5-10%. That is concerning, because that is the rate you expect from sending out a survey to a randomized population. Not a targeted one where you craft and personalize it.

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stephanie @sclawr.bsky.social · 15/10/2025

i’m at Kinference today, if anyone wants to say hi

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brent 🌹🗽 @therealbrent.bsky.social · 06/10/2025

Heads up there’s an ICE checkpoint in Harlem right now apparently

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stephanie @sclawr.bsky.social · 02/10/2025

who benefits from everything being seen as AI? the exorbitant energy usage? from AI being seen as the new cool kid on the block? from it being used to automate code AND images AND books AND jobs vs just parts of jobs?

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stephanie @sclawr.bsky.social · 02/10/2025

and to really put on an extra layer of critical thinking when it comes to thinking about what AI is and isn’t, the impact it is having versus what it actually needs to have, and ask harder questions about it why the conversation has gotten so muddled and messy. Who benefits from that?

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stephanie @sclawr.bsky.social · 02/10/2025

It’s nice to see a push towards AI tools basically being rebranded automation. Or just slapping the word “AI”on an app with any kind of feature at all. To move away from creating an earth guzzling text box. But it’s important to realize that the AI conversation is the way it is for a reason.

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stephanie @sclawr.bsky.social · 02/10/2025

Nowadays, you could scan the forms and have the data entered with reasonable accuracy and for little/no extra cost, but some manual cleaning would still need to happen. Doing data cleaning and entry can make you a better, more aware analyst. But not THAT. Use AI for THAT shit.

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stephanie @sclawr.bsky.social · 02/10/2025

I had my own office, covered in paper. I watched multiple generations of geese and ducks grow up outside of my window. There was a pond. A lot of it was as streamlined as possible, using tools to automate as much as I could at the time. But I spent YEARS typing in addresses and phone numbers.

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stephanie @sclawr.bsky.social · 02/10/2025

fun story: i once spent YEARS entering survey info. From a paper form. YEARS. Made a whole process for it, and so much of it was digitized, but some wasn’t. And that meant years of my life reconciling all of the data. Just entry and cleaning, not even complex analysis.

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stephanie @sclawr.bsky.social · 02/10/2025

or even better, go back to doing all of these things without calling it AI, so the conversations about actually harmful AI usage can actually be useful and targeted and actionable.

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stephanie @sclawr.bsky.social · 02/10/2025

Save the earth burning energy for trying to cure cancer and making new medicine. Not writing the prototype for another fart app, and then the code is so bad it drains a phone battery in 10 minutes. have AI do a K cluster analysis for me, and renew my LLC registration.

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stephanie @sclawr.bsky.social · 02/10/2025

Don’t automate one of the earliest ways that human beings used to communicate, tell stories, and live beyond our short snap of time on this planet. Automate renewing drivers licenses, and laptop battery consumption, and analyzing financial reports for smbs. Run it on a spare old computer.

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stephanie @sclawr.bsky.social · 02/10/2025

AI where you don’t even need to talk to it or say “thank you” to it? Great! Fresh water gets to stay around and not be wasted for on elaborate google searches? even better! Automate filling out forms and shit no one likes to do, not the things people dedicate their life to doing for fun

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stephanie @sclawr.bsky.social · 02/10/2025

but back to AI on personal devices and enablement. I heard an ad on a podcast basically talking about a laptop that optimizes its performance based on user behavior and tbh…that’s fine. Cool. that actually makes sense, and isn’t even that new of a concept. Call it AI if you want.

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stephanie @sclawr.bsky.social · 02/10/2025

It’s weird how AI and conversational interfaces have become synonymous, when it is a distinct decision that many think is “easier” because a lot of dev culture assumptions about the “GUI vs code” wars has carried over without thought in the big AI rush.

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stephanie @sclawr.bsky.social · 02/10/2025

And please no more conversational interfaces, computers are not ppl and it is harder to write sentences that it is to click on a button. Buttons are one of humanities best inventions. Clicking is awesome, too, I promise.

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stephanie @sclawr.bsky.social · 02/10/2025

Personalized automation on a specific device? why not, it’s your laptop. As someone that does design and data analysis, i’d much rather use AI to clean data and set up my analyses in STATA, than use it to make a UI for me. Things that are much more useful to automate, and take up much more time.

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stephanie @sclawr.bsky.social · 02/10/2025

My weird AI take: i hope it transitions from a world burning generative tool, to a personalized streamlining enablement process. Using AI to make an image is silly and bad. Using it to run an analysis on some data makes way more sense, and should not use nearly as much energy.

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