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A Treatise on AI Chatbots Undermining the Enlightenment On chatbot sycophancy, passivity, and the case for more intellectually challenging companions

I've been trying to articulate why the fawning, complimentary responses from AI chatbots feel so insidious to me. I've finally figured out how to explain it.

Wrote a long piece on how current model training and design choices threaten our critical thinking skills: maggieappleton.com/ai-enlighten...

One of my essays with a "Version history" dropdown visible in the metadata showing three different versions with different descriptions of what's been updated. Each version shows a relative date (2 years ago, 6 days ago).

I've wanted versioning on my digital garden for ages. Felt like a critical missing piece.

Making my own dreams come true over here.

Hard but fun to design this. These aren't automatically generated – I intentionally decide when to make new versions. Not every edit = new version. Only major updates

Worked on some onboarding illustrations this morning. #buildinpublic #swiftui

Noise, shadows, gradients and motion blurs

meet Apple Spotlight

tomorrow is Joi Day, aka the 9th of every month. what one feature should we release tomorrow?

→ joi.software

2025 YEAR OF THE WEBSITE

nora.zone/manifesto.html

i have started a job where i have no idea whats going on 90% of the time

it’s rare to have an opportunity to be a beginner again — i am doing a residency as a research engineer at anthropic

New app icon (Still a newspaper)

Reddit native comments view for an r/TodayILearned post

A reddit video inline for a 3d model on r/blender

The 'translate' button on the reader view

new update to feeeed, my 'build your own news feed' app!

🦋 A new look with a new icon, cleaner type and more consistent colors

🧵 Native views for Reddit comment threads and videos (dont tell reddit!)

🌍 Translate a story via the share menu (uses Google translate) & summaries in any language

step 1 of writing a prolog interpreter: have Claude code me a custom debug utility that can visualize what my interpreter is doing :D

already helped me fix so many bugs!

a little experiment in ui: MAGIC WAND

can you tell the computer to modify part of a complicated document by "pointing" at it?

Our 'Open Supernotes' links just got a glow up ✨

@are.na is the closest thing to ‘exploring’ the internet that exists

I had so much fun designing @supernotes.app wrapped, here's mine 👇

the animation that plays when you commit to your plan in semantical.com's Today app, created with rive.app

After seeing @supernotes.app in action on the Galaxy Fold, I'm really tempted to buy one 😍

☀️🌙 🌧️

Weather Widgets that can be customised..

🥑 NEW WORK FOR ALMA 🥑

We worked with the team at Alma to help them bring to life a new kind of nutrition tracker. One that celebrates food, flavor, & culture. One that actually encourages you and gets to know you and your weird lil tummy.

Full case study link below

The touch bar has been turned into a standalone gadget, powered by an ESP32 microcontroller:

little clay things: a rainbow, a calico cat, an apple, a snail, a mushroom, a mountain, an orange, a tulip, and a frog. the background is a bright yellow.

little pals

In a alternative timeline. 🦋

Almost got this design where I want it. Still have plenty of tweaks I want to make and need to figure out the animations on the blueprints page.

I’ll go over and refactor a lot when I get more content in

A revised version of the previous screens that has an improved lockup and a better positioned header

ok i think this is a bit better

A grid of potential designs for Maitsu's WIP screen, particularly in the state where you are being prompted to start a new project

cannot for the life of me figure out what to do with this @maitsu.co screen #buildinpublic #design #swiftui

📆 Jammed with @merycodes.bsky.social on this one!

Designing date pickers is always such a joy!

From the archives - genUI.

sf compute fan art

Almost ready 🌎 To start I’m thinking to limit to 10 users and offer lifetime licence 🔖