Mike Monteiro on designers having AI shoved down their throats.

Tell ’em.

(P.S. If you don’t know Mike, he’s a super-smart dude. And he’s cussy like me. And we’ve shared a stage twice. So I like him.)

https://buttondown.com/monteiro/archive/how-to-use-no-as-a-complete-sentence/

#AI #Design #No #MikeMonteiro

“Right now there is someone firing up ChatGPT because it’s cheap. Right now there is someone writing a prompt in Claude because it brings him closer to his co-workers. Right now there is someone walking a co-worker through his agentic workflow, in the same way we attempted to impress one another by blowing smoke rings. Right now there is someone parking a Cybertruck on your street, believing that leaving his divorce where everyone can see it is somehow impressive. We have always been good at ignoring the warnings that came with the pack.”

https://buttondown.com/monteiro/archive/how-to-smoke/

Via @rb3n

#BigTobacco #BigTech #AI #MikeMonteiro

#MikeMonteiro has a "shitty pulp edition" of his wonderful second edition "Design is a Job".

https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/design-is-a-job-mike-monteiro/1146561698?utm_source=monteiro&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=how-to-fight

#design #DesignIsAJob

Great advice here for creatives and freelancers from Mike Monteiro. There's very little to protect small creatives from bad clients in the absence of a solid contract.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jVkLVRt6c1U

#Freelance #CreativeWork #FuckYouPayMe #YouTube #MikeMonteiro

#MikeMonteiro

Solid.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jVkLVRt6c1U

"Fuck You, Pay Me" is still as valid today as it was in 2011 when #MikeMonteiro first asserted it; #artists and designers of every stripe deal with this dryshite, and if you are a potential client thinking of stiffing a creative professional, there are some of us happy to make that attempt as painful and subsequently as 'scorched earth' to your reputation as a client, as possible. SaaS = Spite as a Service.

https://vimeo.com/22053820

The Graun on 1 year of Elmo rule @ #twitter:
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2023/oct/27/elon-musk-twitter-x-one-year-anniversary

Also, a #MikeMonteiro piece from 2017 on Jack Dorsey, i.e. why one would want to steer clear of #bluesky
https://monteiro.medium.com/merry-last-christmas-jack-dorsey-59f82c06f02b