Which parts of your work do you actually want to keep? By Hannah Baker This one's a few days late; life got in the way. Back to our regular scheduled broadcast next week. For a long time, I was using Claude the same way most people do. As a chat function. A thinking partner. Something to help me get things done. But I kept running into the same problem. Every new conversation, I'd have to re-explain everything, my tone, my formatting, what I needed the output to look like. So I'd stay in the...

7 Tells that a UI is AI-Generated by Jeff Humble Dear Reader, You can see a vibe-coded app from a mile away, if you know what to look for. Here are seven design patterns that scream amateur vibe coder. Learn them, avoid them, and stay above the rising tide of slop, my friends. 1. Neon color palette from IceWhistle If it's vibe-coded, it's gotta be neon. To slop this one up to the max, use 5+ neon colors and never pick a single one to focus. Why AI loves it: Neon-on-dark is overrepresented in...

The brief that keeps changing By Hannah Baker Dear Reader, There’s a particular kind of exhaustion I keep hearing about. It’s not burnout, exactly. It’s not being overworked. It’s something more specific, the feeling of being asked to plan something when the thing you’re planning for keeps shifting underneath you. I’ve been hearing it a lot lately. And more and more, it has AI somewhere in the middle of it. Here’s a version of a situation I keep encountering. Someone is working on two large...