emily manges
@Emily_Manges
EIR at @AIResidency ✶ gallerina turned operator ✶ vibe coding by night ✶ Prev HBS, MoMA, Artsy
Vibe coding started as a way to learn. Now it’s something like a practice. Some thoughts on building with intuition. Thanks to @AIResidency for encouraging this kind of work.
another instant classic from @Emily_Manges
Foundation models are blocks of marble. Prompting means revealing form, not forcing it. On Noguchi and building with AI systems:
The process becomes the product. The constraint becomes the style. The toolmaker becomes the artist. Maybe the next Casey Neistat isn’t a filmmaker. Maybe they build the experience you film inside. Maybe they design a story that writes itself with you.
trying something new - sunday writing: creation becomes consumption what if the next generation of creative tools felt more like authored experiences than blank canvases?
nyc is electric this summer. There's energy here right now and people are wanting to stay put/noticeably less people traveling in August
Sent out invites for two events for August this morning. Not a single person has said "I'm out of town/on vacation." Bullish.
What this misses is that CEOs hire McKinsey as an insurance policy; i don't think MBB is going anywhere anytime soon. Management is outsourcing the liability of high stakes decisions/problems to a credible source.
R.I.P McKinsey. You don’t need a $300k consultant anymore. You can now run full competitive market analysis using Grok 4. Here are the exact 3 mega-prompts I use to replicate McKinsey-style insights for free:
Quality content from quality people. Feels so refreshing. Super excited for this.
I talked to legend @hipcityreg about decades, persona play, design as a realization of values, relationships + more Announcing EP 1 of ETTO TALKS, a new video series exploring style as a technology for the self — intimate conversations with great creatives, stylists, & makers.
I've recently shifted from using gpt to brainstorm to doing my own thinking first, and then using gpt to push back or refine...I am already noticing an increase in my writing quality and mental agility (probably close to the pre-gpt era when I was reading ~100 dense pages per day…
Update: after several back and forth we have agreed this task is it's responsibility
My agent is making me add debug logs to several files and I am genuinely offended it won't do it for me, I think it's revolting....
My agent is making me add debug logs to several files and I am genuinely offended it won't do it for me, I think it's revolting....
Seeing a lot of people (mostly men) rebrand by deleting their entire instagram grid...empty grid is new status symbol
Actually so fun to make camera roll collages with my favorite duo's new drop @dangertesting
We're cooked
Guys…. Why is Vogue doing ads for nutrigrain bars…
but to be honest… i enjoy the discourse. imo the best art is divisive and confrontational and often evolves into truly interesting culture rather than being like kind of ok, easily understood and sort of forgettable.