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Conn McQuinn
Jul 4
First, if we don't have sufficient in-brain skill and knowledge, we won't know what to ask the AI to do or how to interpret the products it creates. Second, if we turn over our thinking to AI, we are doing ourselves harm. I don't mean that in the metaphorical sense. Our brains are like muscles, and the harder they are used, the... See more
Jul 4
First, if we don't have sufficient in-brain skill and knowledge, we won't know what to ask the AI to do or how to interpret the products it creates. Second, if we turn over our thinking to AI, we are doing ourselves harm. I don't mean that in the metaphorical sense. Our brains are like muscles, and the harder they are used, the... See more
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“I think there's a whole class of people who are allergic to code...they don't even want to know it exists...and Val Town is not the product for those people. The product for those people is Claude Artifacts or Github Spark.”
🎧 Do 60-minute Coding Tasks in 60 Seconds—With AI
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🎧 Do 60-minute Coding Tasks in 60 Seconds—With AI
Steve is the cofounder and CEO of Val Town, a cloud-based platform for developers to write, share, and deploy code directly in the browser.
🎧 Do 60-minute Coding Tasks in 60 Seconds—With AI
Design to code is about automating beautiful visual designs into clean code that matches the designed look. It takes a collaborative approach between designers and developers to get it right, which ultimately turns days of work into minutes. But how did we get here, and where is it going?