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Pavel A. Samsonov

@PavelASamsonov@mastodon.social
mastodon 4.6.0-nightly.2026-03-16

Design is the rendering of care.

💼Problem design, user experience, product, decision-making, software development 🎓CMU MHCI, YSDN 🔵Sick of rectangles.

designing at the intersection of 0 and f(x)=1/x

#ux #design #uxdesign #servicedesign #hci #tfr

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Pavel A. Samsonov
@PavelASamsonov@mastodon.social

Design is the rendering of care. 💼Problem design, user experience, product, decision-making, software development 🎓CMU MHCI, YSDN 🔵Sick of rectangles. designing at the intersection of 0 and f(x)=1/x # ux # design # uxdesign # servicedesign # hci # tfr

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Pavel A. Samsonov
Pavel A. Samsonov
@PavelASamsonov@mastodon.social

Design is the rendering of care. 💼Problem design, user experience, product, decision-making, software development 🎓CMU MHCI, YSDN 🔵Sick of rectangles. designing at the intersection of 0 and f(x)=1/x # ux # design # uxdesign # servicedesign # hci # tfr

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@PavelASamsonov@mastodon.social · 6d ago

Today is MAR 10, aka Mario day. It is also extremely close to the spring equinox.

This implies a cycle of Wario Day (fall equinox), Luigi Day (summer solstice), and Waluigi Day (winter solstice).

Luigi's height and generosity represents the wheat stalk; when we feast upon the harvest we embody Wario's girth and greed.

Waluigi stands for the lean times that come during winter. As the snows melt he is replaced by Mario, whose plumber nature blesses the fixing of pipes that burst from the cold.

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Pavel A. Samsonov
@PavelASamsonov@mastodon.social

Design is the rendering of care. 💼Problem design, user experience, product, decision-making, software development 🎓CMU MHCI, YSDN 🔵Sick of rectangles. designing at the intersection of 0 and f(x)=1/x # ux # design # uxdesign # servicedesign # hci # tfr

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Pavel A. Samsonov
Pavel A. Samsonov
@PavelASamsonov@mastodon.social

Design is the rendering of care. 💼Problem design, user experience, product, decision-making, software development 🎓CMU MHCI, YSDN 🔵Sick of rectangles. designing at the intersection of 0 and f(x)=1/x # ux # design # uxdesign # servicedesign # hci # tfr

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@PavelASamsonov@mastodon.social · 6d ago

I always ask people who want to build some nonsense:
- how will you know that it worked?
- what can you do if it didn't?

The answer is usually: we won't, and nothing. It never occurs to them that the idea might not be an inevitable success, despite ALL prior experience to the contrary.

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Pavel A. Samsonov
@PavelASamsonov@mastodon.social

Design is the rendering of care. 💼Problem design, user experience, product, decision-making, software development 🎓CMU MHCI, YSDN 🔵Sick of rectangles. designing at the intersection of 0 and f(x)=1/x # ux # design # uxdesign # servicedesign # hci # tfr

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Pavel A. Samsonov
Pavel A. Samsonov
@PavelASamsonov@mastodon.social

Design is the rendering of care. 💼Problem design, user experience, product, decision-making, software development 🎓CMU MHCI, YSDN 🔵Sick of rectangles. designing at the intersection of 0 and f(x)=1/x # ux # design # uxdesign # servicedesign # hci # tfr

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@PavelASamsonov@mastodon.social · Mar 09, 2026

People tell me that #AI code is fine, because you can run automatic tests. But tests can only tell you if code is doing the thing you want it to do.

To know what it SHOULD do, we used to have requirements. But now requirements are themselves vibe-coded slopotypes.

People were hoping that this would get them higher velocity, but testing the requirements in production only produces waste and risk.

To test requirements safely, you need a culture of critique.

https://productpicnic.beehiiv.com/p/checking-an-llm-s-work-is-a-systemic-not-an-individual-problem

#LLM #UX

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Pavel A. Samsonov
@PavelASamsonov@mastodon.social

Design is the rendering of care. 💼Problem design, user experience, product, decision-making, software development 🎓CMU MHCI, YSDN 🔵Sick of rectangles. designing at the intersection of 0 and f(x)=1/x # ux # design # uxdesign # servicedesign # hci # tfr

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Pavel A. Samsonov
Pavel A. Samsonov
@PavelASamsonov@mastodon.social

Design is the rendering of care. 💼Problem design, user experience, product, decision-making, software development 🎓CMU MHCI, YSDN 🔵Sick of rectangles. designing at the intersection of 0 and f(x)=1/x # ux # design # uxdesign # servicedesign # hci # tfr

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@PavelASamsonov@mastodon.social · Mar 08, 2026

RE: @RuthMalan@mastodon.social

"UX is from 2014" people are about a century off.

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Pavel A. Samsonov
@PavelASamsonov@mastodon.social

Design is the rendering of care. 💼Problem design, user experience, product, decision-making, software development 🎓CMU MHCI, YSDN 🔵Sick of rectangles. designing at the intersection of 0 and f(x)=1/x # ux # design # uxdesign # servicedesign # hci # tfr

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Pavel A. Samsonov
Pavel A. Samsonov
@PavelASamsonov@mastodon.social

Design is the rendering of care. 💼Problem design, user experience, product, decision-making, software development 🎓CMU MHCI, YSDN 🔵Sick of rectangles. designing at the intersection of 0 and f(x)=1/x # ux # design # uxdesign # servicedesign # hci # tfr

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@PavelASamsonov@mastodon.social · Mar 06, 2026

You load 16 server racks, what do you get?
Another day older and deeper in debt
St Peter, don't @ me 'cause I can't go
I owe my soul to the company store

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2026-03-06/the-700-billion-ai-data-center-boom-is-fueling-a-boom-in-man-camp-housing

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Pavel A. Samsonov
@PavelASamsonov@mastodon.social

Design is the rendering of care. 💼Problem design, user experience, product, decision-making, software development 🎓CMU MHCI, YSDN 🔵Sick of rectangles. designing at the intersection of 0 and f(x)=1/x # ux # design # uxdesign # servicedesign # hci # tfr

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Pavel A. Samsonov
Pavel A. Samsonov
@PavelASamsonov@mastodon.social

Design is the rendering of care. 💼Problem design, user experience, product, decision-making, software development 🎓CMU MHCI, YSDN 🔵Sick of rectangles. designing at the intersection of 0 and f(x)=1/x # ux # design # uxdesign # servicedesign # hci # tfr

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@PavelASamsonov@mastodon.social · Mar 06, 2026

cracking open a stafford beer with the boys

the purpose of a pilsner is what it does

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Pavel A. Samsonov
@PavelASamsonov@mastodon.social

Design is the rendering of care. 💼Problem design, user experience, product, decision-making, software development 🎓CMU MHCI, YSDN 🔵Sick of rectangles. designing at the intersection of 0 and f(x)=1/x # ux # design # uxdesign # servicedesign # hci # tfr

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Pavel A. Samsonov
Pavel A. Samsonov
@PavelASamsonov@mastodon.social

Design is the rendering of care. 💼Problem design, user experience, product, decision-making, software development 🎓CMU MHCI, YSDN 🔵Sick of rectangles. designing at the intersection of 0 and f(x)=1/x # ux # design # uxdesign # servicedesign # hci # tfr

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@PavelASamsonov@mastodon.social · Mar 06, 2026

im in ur base invalidating ur cache

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Pavel A. Samsonov
@PavelASamsonov@mastodon.social

Design is the rendering of care. 💼Problem design, user experience, product, decision-making, software development 🎓CMU MHCI, YSDN 🔵Sick of rectangles. designing at the intersection of 0 and f(x)=1/x # ux # design # uxdesign # servicedesign # hci # tfr

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Pavel A. Samsonov
Pavel A. Samsonov
@PavelASamsonov@mastodon.social

Design is the rendering of care. 💼Problem design, user experience, product, decision-making, software development 🎓CMU MHCI, YSDN 🔵Sick of rectangles. designing at the intersection of 0 and f(x)=1/x # ux # design # uxdesign # servicedesign # hci # tfr

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@PavelASamsonov@mastodon.social · Mar 02, 2026
The claim "you won't be replaced by AI, but by a person using AI" is nonsense. The Block layoff victims were some of the most productive, #llm pilled people in the company, but it didn't save them, because that's not what layoffs are about. The layoff script goes, as always: - overhire - lay everyone off - pretend it's because of #AI productivity gains - stock go up There is no individual solution that will protect you from bad leadership and cost cutting. https://productpicnic.beehiiv.com/p/ai-layoffs-like-block-s-are-a-race-to-the-bottom-that-have-nothing-to-do-with-productivity #tech
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Pavel A. Samsonov
@PavelASamsonov@mastodon.social

Design is the rendering of care. 💼Problem design, user experience, product, decision-making, software development 🎓CMU MHCI, YSDN 🔵Sick of rectangles. designing at the intersection of 0 and f(x)=1/x # ux # design # uxdesign # servicedesign # hci # tfr

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Pavel A. Samsonov
Pavel A. Samsonov
@PavelASamsonov@mastodon.social

Design is the rendering of care. 💼Problem design, user experience, product, decision-making, software development 🎓CMU MHCI, YSDN 🔵Sick of rectangles. designing at the intersection of 0 and f(x)=1/x # ux # design # uxdesign # servicedesign # hci # tfr

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@PavelASamsonov@mastodon.social · Feb 24, 2026

Before you ask a diffusion model to barf up a banner image for your article, please consider searching one of the many existing sources of fine & free media:
• Public Domain Image Archive
• Openverse
• Wellcome Collection
• Digital Bodleian
• Getty Open Content Program
• Wikimedia Commons

#publicdomain #substack

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Pavel A. Samsonov
@PavelASamsonov@mastodon.social

Design is the rendering of care. 💼Problem design, user experience, product, decision-making, software development 🎓CMU MHCI, YSDN 🔵Sick of rectangles. designing at the intersection of 0 and f(x)=1/x # ux # design # uxdesign # servicedesign # hci # tfr

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Pavel A. Samsonov
Pavel A. Samsonov
@PavelASamsonov@mastodon.social

Design is the rendering of care. 💼Problem design, user experience, product, decision-making, software development 🎓CMU MHCI, YSDN 🔵Sick of rectangles. designing at the intersection of 0 and f(x)=1/x # ux # design # uxdesign # servicedesign # hci # tfr

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@PavelASamsonov@mastodon.social · Feb 24, 2026

Tech Company: At long last, we have created the Torment Nexus from classic sci-fi novel Don't Create The Torment Nexus.

FOSS nerds: the Torment Nexus cannot be ethical until it is Open Source

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Pavel A. Samsonov
@PavelASamsonov@mastodon.social

Design is the rendering of care. 💼Problem design, user experience, product, decision-making, software development 🎓CMU MHCI, YSDN 🔵Sick of rectangles. designing at the intersection of 0 and f(x)=1/x # ux # design # uxdesign # servicedesign # hci # tfr

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Pavel A. Samsonov
Pavel A. Samsonov
@PavelASamsonov@mastodon.social

Design is the rendering of care. 💼Problem design, user experience, product, decision-making, software development 🎓CMU MHCI, YSDN 🔵Sick of rectangles. designing at the intersection of 0 and f(x)=1/x # ux # design # uxdesign # servicedesign # hci # tfr

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@PavelASamsonov@mastodon.social · Jan 28, 2026
A 14th century parable about agentic #AI transformation: Tamerlane was looking for someone to teach his donkey to talk. Nobody wanted the job. Finally the wise man of the dunes, Hodja Nasreddin, took the position and promised to teach the donkey to talk in 10 years time. - Are you crazy? his friends asked him. - Not really, Nasreddin answered. The money is good the job is not hard and in 10 years a lot might happen: I might die, or Tamerlane might die or surely enough this old donkey might die.
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Pavel A. Samsonov
@PavelASamsonov@mastodon.social

Design is the rendering of care. 💼Problem design, user experience, product, decision-making, software development 🎓CMU MHCI, YSDN 🔵Sick of rectangles. designing at the intersection of 0 and f(x)=1/x # ux # design # uxdesign # servicedesign # hci # tfr

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Pavel A. Samsonov
Pavel A. Samsonov
@PavelASamsonov@mastodon.social

Design is the rendering of care. 💼Problem design, user experience, product, decision-making, software development 🎓CMU MHCI, YSDN 🔵Sick of rectangles. designing at the intersection of 0 and f(x)=1/x # ux # design # uxdesign # servicedesign # hci # tfr

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@PavelASamsonov@mastodon.social · Jan 27, 2026
All the same people boosting LLMs today were boosting NFTs five years ago. It's not a coincidence that AI POWERED is an anagram of APE WEIRDO
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Pavel A. Samsonov
@PavelASamsonov@mastodon.social

Design is the rendering of care. 💼Problem design, user experience, product, decision-making, software development 🎓CMU MHCI, YSDN 🔵Sick of rectangles. designing at the intersection of 0 and f(x)=1/x # ux # design # uxdesign # servicedesign # hci # tfr

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Pavel A. Samsonov
Pavel A. Samsonov
@PavelASamsonov@mastodon.social

Design is the rendering of care. 💼Problem design, user experience, product, decision-making, software development 🎓CMU MHCI, YSDN 🔵Sick of rectangles. designing at the intersection of 0 and f(x)=1/x # ux # design # uxdesign # servicedesign # hci # tfr

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@PavelASamsonov@mastodon.social · Jan 13, 2026
#agile #scrum #tech #softwaredevelopment #meme #funny
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