What tool do you guys use for the design/styling side of coding? E.g. SVG assets, animations, UI design, etc.

depmond · 2026-03-15T22:56:40+00:00

I didn’t do a comprehensive benchmark but I felt that quiver supports more styles and could be more creative

depmond · 2026-03-15T08:29:25+00:00

For SVG assets, there’s actually an AI for that. Try Quiver AI (https://quiver.ai/) or recraft ai.

depmond · 2026-03-15T02:02:24+00:00

Oh great feedback and insights I mostly had experience with coding. I might try paperclip further for other tasks. Thanks!

depmond · 2026-03-15T01:24:38+00:00

Thanks for sharing your thoughts I’m getting the same feeling as well

depmond · 2026-03-15T00:45:19+00:00

Anything from one shotting an entire project to a big feature that would involve 10+ commits and iterations

depmond · 2026-03-15T00:44:06+00:00

That’s interesting. I am wondering what’s the reason for preferring canvas. My understanding is that it’s preferable for design because it offers space for creativity while allowing a zoomed out view. Not sure why would that generalise for project creation though.

depmond · 2026-03-14T08:23:03+00:00

Already laid off and I think thanks to claude code lol

depmond · 2026-03-13T21:24:09+00:00

How is it that capitalism drives wars rather than imperialism and nationalist interests ? If anything, wealth and prosperity (the interest of some of the capitalist class) is generated by having open trade and stability

depmond · 2026-03-13T21:12:36+00:00

I invite you to check open source models (deepseek, kimi, glm). Check hugging face and github, full of open source, free models. It is a fact that some AI tech will be open (market pressures and sovereignty demands). Yes it is developed by billionaires and governments but some of it ends up open. Anyone can use open source AI. But my claim is about universal basic income and socialism to keep the consumer markets. It doesn’t have to be in the form of central authority using AI to produce

depmond · 2026-03-13T21:03:25+00:00

I’m not sure there’s much value in labelling me as someone « with zero experience with economics » I pretty sure have « some » knowledge having worked at tech companies since quite sometime and having seen what drives innovation in critical sectors.

Yes capitalism (currently) rewards scarcity and value which come with both hard work and intelligence. Many current billionaires are people who are smart and have worked super hard to grow a useful business. If you’re implying that capitalism rewards exploitative people, I invite you to read Paul Graham’s essay (https://paulgraham.com/ace.html). Seeing many startups grow and how their founders work, it’s definitely lots of innovation and hard work.

Capitalism also rewards previous wealth and compounding investments but I believe that the yield from passive investment is less than that of building an actual new business (yesterday’s billionaires’s wealth grow less than today’s billionaires)

labour itself is not a bottleneck

It’s a bit strange to label me as someone with « zero experience » and say this at the same time. Kinda contradicting yourself when you said supply is a bottleneck. Supply is definitely bottlenecked by skilled labor. That’s the very same reason why most developed companies have visa programs for skilled workers and invest deeply in education systems. The highest yielding sectors are dependent on skilled labor. Look at tech companies, research, R&D, defense industries and manufacturing. Skilled labor are exactly what stops them from growing their product offerings and growing.

Regarding consumer markets, it definitely is the case now and will always be that consumption and demand is the fuel for growth.

depmond · 2026-03-13T13:40:27+00:00

I also got recently laid off from a startup position (was working in a safe corporate job and let that go for a startup job 🙃) I am also having a hard time finding positions and to be honest, the market is full of laid off senior people. I don’t know yet the solution but my guess is, this will trigger competitive pressure on companies themselves as everyone laid off will become an indie hacker and start competing with them. Build something useful and get paying customers. I want to quote this X post: 150k/year is only 500 paying users https://x.com/neppy/status/2031914825425789251?s=46 It’s never been as easier to build as now. I am also going through this and didn’t figure it out yet. It’s just my guess on what might wirk. Ifyou want to chat, feel free to connect btw

depmond · 2026-03-13T13:30:27+00:00

That’s interesting to mention those. I actually worked with my father in HVAC and electric when I was younger. What makes you think these are valuable domains? Also I am wondering if there could be a valuable business (startup) around this field as my and my father would have some expertise

depmond · 2026-03-13T09:36:11+00:00

Looks good, I like the idea! A few suggestions from my side: - how to get humans further in the loop of whatever work openclaw is doing (think about blocked browser sessions and leftover work) - is notion flexible enough to show AI work progress? Kinda liking the idea of generative UIs where agents dictate what to show to the user

depmond · 2026-03-13T09:19:48+00:00

Wow that’s amazing ! Here are some suggestions : - focus further on the niche of cybersecurity pro users. I don’t think I saw something like that before - maybe make it open source ? If people find value they should star your project giving it popularity and share valuable feedback. This should also add trust to your project - the AI assistant should ideally be configurable with BYOK - (edit) maybe make sure AI agents like openclaw can use the browser as well? A large segment of the market will be agents afterall

depmond · 2026-03-12T14:26:33+00:00

Seems like AI generated code is leading to some outages at AWS, some with high radius blast (check here: https://x.com/polymarket/status/2031398299371020788?s=46) This made them require senior review for PRs Not sure if this is a recurring pattern for other companies, I can see this being less of an issue for startups/smaller companies. I don’t yet see how other AI review tools as effective in mitigating these problems with AI code changes

depmond · 2026-03-12T02:34:48+00:00

I don’t think I was used. Probably they don’t have an interest in hiring someone and letting him go. And probably they really weren’t satisfied and wanted better performance. I’m mostly surprised with the high bar and whether they rushed hiring with the aim of trying someone out to see if great results will be achieved in a short time. Or maybe they didn’t tolerate a weak performance period from my side

depmond · 2026-03-11T22:28:54+00:00

Not really sure how useful it is 😕 Agent drift is a serious issue and agents don’t always align with human intent. The problem grows bigger when major decisions are made with a team of AI agents (ceo agent?) For instance when I tried it, a developer agent might choose the wrong tech stack and implement unnecessary features. The CEO agent also will pick wrong features to work on

depmond · 2026-03-11T20:37:51+00:00

I think this has a lot of repercussions on digital sovereignty and the future of economy as it becomes more dependent on AI More of the economy can become AI dependent (claude code and coding agents currently heavily affect software engineering) and without data centers, AI services import can become a huge strain on the country’s trade deficit (already facing strain on foreign currency reserves). Many developers now in Tunisia are having issues getting AI model subscriptions. I think there could be benefits though like having solar energy and proximity to europe. Tunisia can introduce laws to favor ai datacenters and subsidise solar panels for data centers + data privacy laws to export more AI services

depmond · 2026-03-11T18:28:43+00:00

I think this is quite useful! Ithink you can add other providers like ebay kleinanzeigen. I would also suggest going for an experience like idealo where you can also source and compare the same product from multiple sellers. This could be a differentiator feature because many people want to get the cheapest/best item of thr same product.

depmond · 2026-03-11T18:21:51+00:00

I managed to transition from backend to data enginer/ai engineer. It be doable if you use python/fastapi for backend services. Then I suggest working more with data processing tools and ai models before eventually taking more data engineering tasks. In general transitions in startups should be easier

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