Paul Bakaus

“It is an agent skill that's completely open source. It has lots of subcommands to steer. And then I kind of built a visual iteration mode on top of it and a quality layer that removes slop... it does stop the overfitting of the models.”

“We were launching this GitHub Copilot app that's already in GA... The craft bar is very high now for applications. So we wanted to set the bar with this app... Paul is going to be the first one to be in our integrations of this powerful design skill.”

“Designers when using Claude, as opposed to engineers using Claude, would consistently get better results. And it's because of the language that they use... engineers don't use the words. Things like vertical rhythm or negative space or make this bolder or quieter.”

“In 2022, 2023, everybody thought AI Slop was purple gradients... The models aren't producing purple gradients anymore... Tailwind's default theme has purple. Because of the default theme, the purple gradients were introduced everywhere.”

“Suno is actually a great example of something that started for beginners and sort of vibe sound designers that wanted to just one-shot a quick song. But now it expanded very much into real music production. There are producers using it for all sorts of things now.”

“Steve was one of the greatest editors in the world. He said no to so many things as opposed to saying yes to so many things.”

“When I started jQuery UI, we created a theme framework, a theme roller, and the default theme was orange. I colored the whole web orange overnight, and I learned my lesson.”

“Gemini does a little more — it samples frames at about one frame per second — but even that doesn't really give you the full picture.”