carly ayres
@carlyayres
@airesidency
Been working on something new: @AIResidency—an accelerator for early-stage, design-led, culture-forward teams. Based in NYC. Apply to Cohort One:
AIR is live. Applications for Cohort One are now open. $500K for 10%. 10 weeks in NYC. Design-led. Culture-forward. Consumer AI. Apply by May 26 → air.collabfund.com
i'm hiring a "design engineer" to work on a new social app from Some Of The Guys Who Brought You Vine. job fun. pay good. dm or email for info.
THEY SAID WE CAN DO WHATEVER WE WANT DANGER TESTING X @DIABROWSER NEXT WEEK
1. go to @dangertesting hq 2. film for half a day with no real plan 3. give @downloadlos and @marcgmbh the footage 4. ???
THEY SAID WE CAN DO WHATEVER WE WANT DANGER TESTING X @DIABROWSER NEXT WEEK
Thanks for swinging through! See you back there Friday!
Pulled up to @AIResidency in Brooklyn to meet with the @8LABHQ team. We talked product, monetization, ICP. Even the program founder stopped in. AIR is a 10-week NYC program backed by @collabfund and partnered with @fictivekin. This energy is my element. Might be time to build…
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:
Hey! 🩺 Looking for a senior product designer to help architect & build a next-gen AI preventative health platform from 0 to 1 with a solid AF team + @littleplainsxo. Would start mid August, and run through ~ end of the year. DM me!
“As generative tools become faster, more aesthetic, more automatic, “creation” starts to feel like consumption. Creative tools stop behaving like neutral platforms and start acting more like media, like watching YouTube or playing a game.”
trying something new - sunday writing: creation becomes consumption what if the next generation of creative tools felt more like authored experiences than blank canvases?
Me and who?
Wildlife photographer Sha Lu captures the perfect moment a small animal looks at the camera while being caught by a predator.
this is what i mean when i say software moves at the speed of culture now
i vibe coded a little game called Coldplay Canoodlers you're the camera operator and you have to find the CEO and HR lady canoodling 10 points every time you find them 👇link
Designers: should we really be training AI models, or have we gone too far? I talked with @jstn about AI as a design challenge, knowing your tools, making space for uncertainty, and why sometimes, fuzziness is a feature: carly.substack.com/p/should-desig…
yall know i got a lot to say about AI but i agree with this, we should all be learning how these things work firsthand, above a consumer level understanding
come & yap tomorrow night @ @index_space_org
We’re hosting another show-n-tell back at @index_space_org this Thursday, featuring: Neha Halebeed @destroytoday @wendexed @ljmacfadyen @darefailed @CherriHartigan & @Belente lu.ma/fvq2tjxf
Anyway this was great
Lineup for the @AIResidency cohort this week. Can already tell it’s going to be a banger... our first salon-style session ft. @kelin_online @_EricHu @emmettshine
Seeing all this talent reminds me why I love hiring. If you’re at the top of your game and ready to build something special, HMU Currently looking for: → Brand Designer (Web) → Brand Designer (Core)
God I love New York. Where else can you get an iced coffee.