Joonas Virtanen
@joonasvirtanen
Design/AI at @airbnb in 🗽/ 🇺🇸 / 🇫🇮 / 🗺️ prev. @wealthsimple. building @interfacefuture
Tried @lovable_dev for the first time last night and vibe coded an interactive graphic wall art generator that reacts to current time & weather
I’m blown away by the lack of any long term vision, mission or actually any narrative behind ai companions that are now popping up. The level of thinking is literally “well men are lonely and can’t get laid so we will make an ai gf” or as Zuckerberg put it “people have demand for…
This is phenomenal. Whoever convinced the board “No seriously, this is how you play it” is an all star I want to know: -Who was the agency that pitched it? -Was the board all in or did it take work? -Did they already have Coldplay Ex-wife Paltrow onboard when they pitched?
Thank you for your interest in Astronomer.
Mostly true but we work remotely.
The Browser Company is what happens when you get too many designers in a room with no adult supervision
Whoever they paid for PR should make twice as much
Thank you for your interest in Astronomer.
Technology has already ushered us into an atomized dystopia where no one wants to go out and socialize anymore. Now imagine how much worse it’ll get when people realize every creep is secretly filming them.
introducing Waves, camera glasses for creators. record in stealth. livestream all day. pre-order now.
looking at the replies to this and thinking about how artists tend to feel strongly about ai because it implies a seismic self-narrative / identity level disruption to sense of self … this will happen to other fields too (see: people feeling grief and conflicted over AI winning…
this AI gen tweet is going viral, lots of "we need games that look like this!" but they cant articulate why. its not the artstyle or anything, its scale. modern games do a bad job of evoking a feeling of sublimity literally just take the castle in your skybox and scale it up
Such a wild time to be making software. Every time I have a second to catch my breath I’m just in awe of this moment. The computing paradigms we grew up with are gonna start melting away… very quickly. I keep reminding myself to be bolder. We can finally rewrite the rules!
ughhh could the adults please get back into the room
LIQUID GLASS IS BACK
gonna start declining meetings with people who wear glasses
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If you're a designer in your 20s, a couple of years at Pentagram, Wieden and R/GA as head of design will 10x your career more than any degree.
If you’re in your 20s in tech right now, a couple of years at OpenAI, Anthropic or a great AI startup will give you 10x the career juice of any MBA or graduate degree (and a lot less debt).
I am such a fan of @TheOceanCleanup. Real impact.
Some news
Class act from Google DeepMind. Much respect 🫡
Second in the series! @sanchitsawaria and I made a music visualizer for ‘Submission,’ the second track of @Kavya_Trehan ‘s new EP ‘hyperreal.’ Composited live action (shot by @KsheetijSaini) and AI-generated videos
Old inequality: "I have access to knowledge, you don't." New inequality: "We both have infinite knowledge. I know what to do with it."
brute forcing through the shitty first 100 hours of learning anything is the cheat code. most people never make it past 10.
FINALLY! 😍 Too bad the app itself is still a disappointment. It kills me bc it COULD be the best-designed most wholesome beautiful app in the world and it just.. shit
not enough people are talking about the goodreads rebrand
tired: viral memes. wired: viral mini apps based on the memes.
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
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
to anyone who used groups over frames: grow up pls, respectfully
How it feels like to use Frames instead of Groups in Figma