Josh Pollock (@joshmpollock) 's Twitter Profile
Josh Pollock

@joshmpollock

CS PhD Student @MIT_CSAIL @mitvis. Using PL, HCI, and Vis to build better systems. bluefishjs.org @[email protected] 🐟

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I'm so frustrated by AI devs saying "markdown specs" and "plain English" are the future of programming. No they're not. I think in diagrams, in mockups, in whiteboard sessions. The future should be way, way more visual than whatever we're doing right now with agentic chatbots

Ryan Singer (@rjs) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Tools like Cursor hint at where AI-driven user interfaces are going. Chat is only 10%. Most of the output (and UI) is a domain-specific representation of the state of the work. In the case of AI coding, 90% of what you're looking at and thinking about is the IDE, the diffs, the

Tools like Cursor hint at where AI-driven user interfaces are going. Chat is only 10%. Most of the output (and UI) is a domain-specific representation of the state of the work.

In the case of AI coding, 90% of what you're looking at and thinking about is the IDE, the diffs, the
Geoffrey Litt (@geoffreylitt) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Check out this hot HCI paper about autonomous agents! It’s from… wait a sec… 1997? ā€œResearchers and software companies have set high hopes on so-called software agents, which "know" users' interests and can act autonomously on their behalf. Instead of exercising complete

Check out this hot HCI paper about autonomous agents! It’s from… wait a sec… 1997?

ā€œResearchers and software
companies have set high hopes on so-called software
agents, which "know" users' interests and can act
autonomously on their behalf. Instead of exercising
complete
Josh Pollock (@joshmpollock) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Interesting scale issue that most charting libraries seem to get wrong. The y axis doesn’t make sense when you center a stacked area chart (called a streamgraph) Most common workaround is removing the y axis entirely but then you can’t compare relative sizes easily!

Interesting scale issue that most charting libraries seem to get wrong. The y axis doesn’t make sense when you center a stacked area chart (called a streamgraph)

Most common workaround is removing the y axis entirely but then you can’t compare relative sizes easily!
Sivori (@sivori) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Pro life tip: don’t do anything you don’t want to do. It builds resentment and poisons your relationship. I often say there’s always a ā€œnoā€. Like the conservation of mass or energy… the ā€œnoā€ is never destroyed. It either is presented up front or poisons into resentment or

Geoffrey Litt (@geoffreylitt) 's Twitter Profile Photo

# is chat a good UI for AI? a dialogue the pupil was confused. some people on design twitter said that chat isn't a good UI for AI... but then chat seemed to be winning in many products? he climbed Mount GPT to consult a wizard... 🐣: please wizard tell me once and for all. is

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The HATRA (Human Aspects of Types and Reasoning Assistants) workshop deadline has been extended by a week (to July 9th AOE). submit here: conf.researchr.org/home/icfp-spla…

The HATRA (Human Aspects of Types and Reasoning Assistants) workshop deadline has been extended by a week (to July 9th AOE). submit here: conf.researchr.org/home/icfp-spla…
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Ragged Blocks: Rendering Structured Text with Style by Sam Cohen arxiv.org/abs/2507.06460 very interesting method for rendering nested structure while respecting typographical layout

Ragged Blocks: Rendering Structured Text with Style by Sam Cohen
arxiv.org/abs/2507.06460

very interesting method for rendering nested structure while respecting typographical layout