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AI and the Beauty of Human Flaws
We're living in an era where AI can generate polished designs, code, and writing with a single prompt—but something crucial is being lost. Willem Van Lancker argues that “productive friction”—the struggle of learning through trial, error, and critique—is essential for developing true expertise and taste.
One of the most gratifying aspects of web design and development is the lateral thinking involved. There is rarely ever an objective and singular correct way to go about achieving something. You have to consider all the different contexts a user will encounter on your site, how you want them to interact with it, what you want to elicit in t
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On another, we might peer into the machine itself. After all, as it stands today, one of AI’s greatest strengths is in highlighting its own weaknesses (and thereby, illuminating those qualities that we’re uniquely suited to as living, breathing thinkers and makers). We might consider our imagination a strength, or our capacity for recursive thought... See more
Our Centaur Future - A RADAR Report
Our interfaces should facilitate prose-sculpting, meaning-architecting, memory-augmenting, and inspiration-harvesting—all grounded in sources we love and trust. Just as calculators shifted math from rote computation to conceptual exploration, AI can nudge creative work toward the things humans are uniquely good at: thinking and feeling deeply.
Sari Azout • The End of Productivity
But when it comes to setting up things that have to be perfect, machine learning just isn’t the way to do it—much as humans aren’t either.