carlyayres

AI startup Friend.com plastered ads all over NYC subways and people keep ripping them down. Danger Testing built a site that recreates the posters online, letting anyone graffiti them and see what others have done.

How you do anything is how you do everything, especially as a company

Everyone talks about “craft” and “taste.” But what happens when AI lets anyone make something that looks finished in seconds?

When we got “create anything” and all made the same thing

At RISD, industrial design students with zero coding experience are deploying functional applications in days. They're using Claude, etc to handle technical implementation while they focus on rapid iteration and user testing. Their projects must reach 100 real users, forcing them to tackle deployment, databases, and real-world technical constraints. The instructor's philosophy: forget traditional design education and let students with fresh eyes figure out what's possible with new tools.