Faster and Worse

Stephen Farrugia

Quick 3-5 minute dispatches which focus on a single idea or concept related to tech product design

  1. Anti-Design

    09/24/2025

    Anti-Design

    Design to compensate for a lack of design

    13 min
  2. Belief Before Purpose

    07/29/2025

    Belief Before Purpose

    The purpose doesn't really matter Support Faster and Worse by contributing to their tip jar: https://tips.pinecast.com/jar/faster-and-worse

    4 min
  3. Tech As Anti-Design

    07/14/2025

    Tech As Anti-Design

    Because the means are predetermined Referenced article: Computers and communication design: exploring the rhetoric of HCI https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/174809.174812 Support Faster and Worse by contributing to their tip jar: https://tips.pinecast.com/jar/faster-and-worse

    6 min
  4. They Are Products

    07/08/2025

    They Are Products

    AI is not a tool or a technology. It is a product.

    5 min
  5. Useful is Nothing

    06/19/2025

    Useful is Nothing

    Useful is the lowest possible bar for any product, let alone a billion dollar, all energy-consuming, one

    4 min
  6. General Purpose is an Accountability Loophole

    06/12/2025

    General Purpose is an Accountability Loophole

    If they don't say what it's for, we can't say if it works

    5 min
  7. Trajectories of Coding with AI

    06/05/2025

    Trajectories of Coding with AI

    Things don't look good if you like making things with code

    11 min
  8. Tangible & Worse

    05/22/2025

    Tangible & Worse

    An LLM wrapped in space-grade aluminium is an amplified slop machine.

    4 min
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Quick 3-5 minute dispatches which focus on a single idea or concept related to tech product design

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    Stephen Farrugia
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