#25 Cursor 2.0, Figma/Adobe/Affinity Standoff, Neo Robots, Google Updates

recordings, but now it's set. Good, good, good. We are live everyone. Good morning, good evening, good night, wherever you are in the world. Oh god, you've gone into darkness, Kavaza. Yeah, I'm just turning on the lights. I'm showing off that everything is uh controlled by my phone, but the problem is it's kind of uh still bad because it's not controlled in one center place. Okay, let's go live on Instagram as well. Hello people on Instagram. Insta gizzle. Insta gizzle. Insta gizzle. Gizzle. I don't know. I don't know what that is. That's just me being can't be good. Cool. Um, sweet. Cool. Let me turn on more lights and we'll start. See, I prefer not wearing glasses, but at the same time, I cannot see.

Absolutely jack Um I I didn't have my glasses for a client meeting today, which I will tell you about uh down the line in the show. And I was like trying to show something in web flow to them and I was like in my laptop because I couldn't and things didn't move uh like best like when you know when you present something things start to break down that literally happened to a in a client meeting. Oh man. Oh, and you get hot and sweaty and it's like, oh, I remember once I remember my first kind of strategic um uh what would you call workshop? Yeah. And I was in Australia and this workshop was and and Australia time zones are so hard to like line up with the UK.

It was with the UK and I think it was like 11:00 p.m. for me or 1000 p.m. for me. And I do not function after 1000 p.m. Like I'm very much an early person. I was up at 5 this morning and like Yeah. So I I did this um I did this workshop and it was just it was just going downhill. I was in an Airbnb and I told the host who was staying at the time, they were in and out but they were staying in the Airbnb at the time. I told the host like just to let you know next week. So it was like a week notice. Next week I've got a meeting that will that will go quite late just to let you know.

Yeah. Oh, fine, fine, fine. Anyway, in the middle of this frigin workshop, she blasts in and shouts at me for like being like, "Can you wrap this up because it's quite late." And I'm like, you know, luckily my phone or whatever I was like on was on mute. And I don't know whether I was on camera. I can't remember if I was on camera, but the point is like no one would have heard them. No one would have heard her except me. And I kind of looked around like what the like g like I told you. I told you would be anyway. So, but I knew and I was getting tired and like and I obviously had this pressure and um I remember like getting my laptop and going into the bedroom cuz I was in the living room going to the bedroom where my my girlfriend at the time was was sleeping and I said like you know I woke up and said I'm really sorry I've got to like it was just a disaster.

The long story short is I wanted to just just curl in a ball and die because it was just I don't know it was going so badly like the workshop uh it was just it was awful and and and by the way so many very very important very very expensive people from their side were on the call like the CEO the CTO all of these big people and it's like I'm wast like every and it was like I'm and I was trying to wrap up this workshop as quickly as possible. But at the same time, I knew I didn't have everything and I knew I hadn't asked them the right questions, but just the mortification inside of me was just just telling me to just run.

I ended up refunding in the money, which by the way was like 250 quid. It was like nothing. That's it was Yeah, I was just just wanted to crawl in crawl in a ball and to die. So to everybody if you're starting that embrace yourself these things will happen and it's it's fine that that's what you learn from. So after today's call I uh I told like my project manager I was like let's uh make our presentations a bit you know faster and then make them a bit more robust. it, you know, but things happen because clients come, they ask questions, and then I'm like, "Oh, I'm going to answer it, and I'm not just going to tell you things.

I'm going to show it to you." And then I show it to them, and it doesn't work the way I intended, but you know, it happens. Anyway, uh let's let's get into things because this week we have quite a lot of stuff. Yeah. Yeah, we do. Um, should we should we go right into it and and and not do the Figma thing? Should we just get into it? Uh, Figma thing. The framer thing. I keep saying Yeah, happy Halloween. Figma and framer. You're confusing these two together and they are probably not very happy about it. Yeah, framer. What was it? Framer. Uh, don't worry about it. Let's crack on and get let's get sight let's do the intro and let's get site the week going.

Don't worry about frame. Yeah. Okay. So the intro for this week is not you know very polished. Let me actually let me just go with it. So this week we had tons of a uh tons of news related to design. We had an update from Figma which now supports slots and components. That that's really big. We have Adobe uh which had Adobe Max and we have some news on uh Adobe related products that might become obsolete because we have a new um a new well not a new product but we have Affinity Photo that is now free. We'll talk about that. And we had a huge cursor update that I'm all about it uh alongside with some uh AI Google AI Studio news.

Right. Google AI Studio. We have the robot. That's really cool. We have a few websites to show you. So, it's quite busy and we can get to it. Cool. Jump right into it. Yeah. Should we start with the site of the week? And I'm going to share my screen. You designers are going to love it this week because it's just there's a few AI bits and bobs, but there's a lot of design stuff that's been going on. if you hadn't been keeping up to date. All right, Right. I'm I'm embracing I'm I'm All right, so this is site of the week. Uh this is designed by Nicolo Miranda. Uh in my believe probably the best web designer out there.

Yeah, the guy is legendary. Uh he's Italian and I believe he's based in Amsterdam or he was at least. and he's just insane. Like you look at his work, it's absolutely insane. And this is like his new work. Uh and I'm pretty sure this is going to win some awards. It's a bit heavy though. Like the website took a good um like a good moment to load, but once it loads, you see it uh took no time to reload. And it has like this really cool slider that auto plays. And we have some video controls. This is, by the way, really nice for accessibility that you can pause it. You can It's mute by default, so it's not bothering me.

And it's about the this meta glasses that are made with this company. This is um I don't know, sport glass company. I'm not sure. Apparently now you have like your smart glasses, you know, for different occasions. For example, in this Yeah, because you had the meta display, right? And these are because Luxology or Luxia or something like that own Oakley and Rayband. So there's obviously Okay, good. Good. By the way, you see this slider? That's really cool. Do you see the the nice small details? That's what I'm all about. I I love these like very tiny details that are out there. Uh I haven't looked into the code but just from here it looks like they are using by the way Adob Analytics.

Interesting. We'll talk about this in a bit. They are using Linux for the smooth scroll. If you are wondering how that is made that's with a plugin called Linux and we have some 3D stuff made with 3JS. I don't see GSAP which is a bit strange but maybe it's not loading correctly because I'm pretty sure they maybe they rolled their own maybe they've got their own I mean what what JavaScript do they I don't know that well I sort of know this tool but like is JavaScript so preact boomerang was it boomerang if you scroll up see the one on the right here the JavaScript libraries yeah this is Boomerang what is Boomerang That sounds like it would be an animation library.

Yeah, that true. Well, let's see. I have no idea what this is. API documentation which is Yeah. No, I don't know. Is a JavaScript library that measures the page load time. So, not that. Oh, interesting. So, this is for your loader. For the loader. So, it's not a dumb loader probably. No, it's probably just an analytics tool, I think. I think it's just an Yeah, I think so. Don't know. Don't know. Okay. Because we have this loading and I I thought that that's what it would be. Anyway, so we have some of these scrolls. Uh, and you see here we have a 3D 3JS stuff. That's cool. Yeah. And this this took like a good minute to load.

This is what was really heavy. And yeah, you got the reflections moving in real time as well. Yeah. And you have like the colors. Oh yeah. You see here it's it's quite slow compared to the Apple website like where you have like the full iPhone that you can like rotate. It's just much much faster than this. Um, even though the iPhone probably is um like a bit heavier, or at least that's how I how I think. Anyway, uh, the site is pretty cool. Do you think you could vibe coat something like this if you had the model? Uh, well, the model would need to be um created, you know, you can't This is a CAD model or something.

real life thing, right? Once you have the model Yeah. I mean, all this is is just, you know, you could probably do this in spline even. It's just a model that uh that you can rotate and whatever. And I I've no doubt that the position and and rotation is probably tracked and you could you just switch the model out. Do you know what I mean? So, you're just you're just loading a new model. you just load. There's probably a way that you can actually trigger different materials which might probably be um performant, but I'm not I'm not great at the 3D stuff, but this seems pretty straightforward, you know. Yeah. Uh well, for a client, we have kind of like a situation where I want to vibe code at least try I just just want to try something um with 3D.

Instead of doing video, I want to do 3D. What is really cool here as I scroll I have this main scroll bar but also I have this contextual scroll scroll bar I think this is like it m it's making it better with these sites that do scroll hijacking and they are like you know typically not known for the best UX but at least they are giving you here a little bit more visual actually like visually they tell you where where they are and uh where you are like you're not lost in uh in it. Yeah. And this part it has some audio that you probably can't hear. Yeah. Oh, so you can like Yeah, immersive audio.

You can have like music. Yeah, that's it. Uh it's a shop. It's an experience within uh this like whole brand. This is also something interesting. These brands sometimes they have a more normal shop, nor normal website, but for a com campaign, for a product, they launch these like crazy ass websites which uh works great with creating awareness and once people are in and people are interested, they can have a more normal shopping experience. So that website is not destroying the entire like the the rest Yeah, it's just an extra nice experience. Yeah, that's that's what I wanted to do a few years ago, but I just don't have the contacts. Like I got in contact with a few big companies, but no one with any real weight behind it.

But I was like, you know, shopping took the Apple took Apple as a as an example like you always get the the landing p well yeah as you've just described once you navigate to the shopping experience is a very boring straightforward experience. But the the actual marketing side, this stuff is all very and I would love to have done more sites like this. I I think I got in contact with Anchor. I built like Anchor like a you know the battery company. I built them like a thing. Um but yeah, I just couldn't I just could not find the contacts to to break into that market. Interesting. Yeah. But you see how faster this one loaded uh compared to the other one.

So I don't know how much of this is about the models themselves or like how it was coded but this it was instantly loaded when I loaded the page but but the other one took a good while. Anyway, this is website of the w week uh picked by me before it wins award. So you you hear saw here first. Yeah, you saw it here first. Um, it will probably win awards like Nicolo Miranda. He doesn't do work that doesn't win awards. Cool. Excellent. K. Yeah, that's a big one. That's a big one. What's that from? That's from a movie, isn't it? I don't know. But it's like Cursor, too. Um, yeah. So big big release from cursor and some interesting uh things that have happened with it.

First and foremost obviously the IDE. Let me share my screen and we can all go through it together. And I think this is it. Um and for me uh a real move you come on now. Here we go. um for me some real uh move like progressions into like what what might be coming in the future specifically converting those traditional developers into more vibe coders. So basically what you're seeing on the screen right now is this all new agent mode which you can swap just at the top left here. I think this UI could probably be a bit nicer, but the agent mode here is just basically removing the code from the experience which oftent times a lot of people do.

They're just more just vibing out basically. Uh so a really really cool simplified experience here. On top of that, they've introduced their own model, the composer one model, which I've heard mixed benchmarks about. It's debatable. It's using it's it's leveraging an opensource um or open weight model potentially GLM 4.6 but it they've released their own model which performs very very well. It's a very fast snappy model. It's not your big thinking model. It's your fast snappy model. So that's really cool. You can you can do split testing. So you can test three models at the same time and then pick the best result which is which is pretty pretty crazy. You can do more by the way.

Sorry. You can do more more than three more. I know. Yeah. Look look I did like six yesterday and Yeah. How does that work? When you pick like six different models, do they do the same thing and pick the best or do they You send You send the prompt. You send the prompt and you'll get three a split view of three different model or however many models you chose and you just read the results or you read the the thing um uh the yeah the result and you just choose the one you think is the best, you know, and you get a little performance review of like how fast it was and stuff like that.

So that's that's pretty pretty cool. So on top of that as well, you've got work tree, which is again something you can probably do. You can ask your AI to create a new work tree, but this is a way of creating sort of branches on your local machine and running different like you could have a branch for one feature, another branch or sorry work tree, another work tree for one feature, another work tree for another feature and be working on them simultaneously with agents, different agents. So, you know, it's classic when you're locked up and you're you're working in um you're just working in in on a feature and you're letting your AI go and it's like, well, what am I going to do?

Well, you just spin up another work tree and begin working on that one. So, this is just a nice sort of user interface. It's it's fairly abstracted from you what's actually going on. You just work away and then, you know, you create a new agent and then create a new work tree or whatever. But it's just this whole experience here like I've just, you know, I was doing this earlier. I just changed the background. Um, actually my video's gone out now. So I was I was running this on a local LLM and getting it to change the background color or whatever. So that was that was pretty cool. So um, really really cool. I'm going to remove this just for a second.

Go to editor and then click on another file. In fact, let me just double check. Yeah. So, if we go to this here, um the other one which we were playing around with earlier is you've got the the browser. Yeah. uh which you can open up in the which I guess you're probably better off showing because I can't show what's what's um what this app is but you've got an inapp browser which behind the scenes or or the technology that I think is using is the Chrome MCP um because it can open up in a Chrome browser or it can be within the window space in the middle here and you can then interact with it or ask about it or query about it again under the hood using the the MCP and this can really speed up especially design workflows but also development workflows because you can query the console and what's happening as and and various things like that just to make that development more seamless experience.

So really really uh impressive release from cursor here some really interesting um advancements they've made. The only thing to say really is about Windsurf also released their new model which is the SUI 1.5 model again using an open weights model speculated that it's GLM 4.6. Um I use Kilo code. They actually sunseted their model which is called something I wrote it down here but it's not there anymore. They've they've had their own model but they're now encouraging you you to use Grock for fast. So um yeah it's um it's a weird time for for Kilo to be sunseting their model while simultaneously cursor and wind surf both launching their own model. So yeah, it's pretty pretty cool.

But you've been playing around with it too, haven't you? You've been you've been knocking some stuff out. So do you want to take us through that? Yeah. Uh happy happy to show you. Yeah. So this is the new UI that I really like or like the new way of using uh cursor where I have my cursor window here. This is the agent view that I have like very tiny and small on the side of the screen. And then I have this browser instance that is opened and controlled by cursor. So this is just chrome but cursor can see it. It can read the console log. So I don't have to copy paste uh things from the console log to cursor.

It can just basically even uh I believe click in and see the elements and things like that. I really like this view. But I don't only use it from that view. I also like the editor view with the browser inside. So as you see here, we have this browser as a tab. Just like you have the files, you have also this browser window. And here I can you know just do browser stuff or I can like select elements. In this case we just have a canvas not much to select. Uh but we can also toggle the dev tools from Chrome. And here we can see the console and I just added some console log. uh I asked cursor to do it and that that is pretty cool right and I'm trying to I haven't found a lot of success and this is where it gets interesting about the models and the about you know the the multi- aent and multi-model stuff I've been trying since yesterday I have an issue with this project that I can't fix I couldn't fix it before with cursor one and I haven't been able to fix it with cursor uh two either So, I don't know.

The the UI is cool. The new way of working is really cool. I'm really like finding a lot of fun and I'm learning a lot by just doing things in this way. Um, and it's just more cohesive. It's all, you know, together. Especially not on this small window that I have. I put what you see on my screen. I put it on a bigger screen on a 32 in uh display. And then it's just much nicer experience. And I know this is maybe a a wrong comparison, but the way it feels, it feels like Web Flow 2019 to me. Not not the tool. I know the tools are different. Well, there are some similarities. You build for the web.

Um what is interesting to me what like the feeling that I get is this enablement that I can do stuff that I can create stuff that most people can't or think they can't they could if they just you know start prompting I know it's not the highest quality or whatever but similarly like in 2019 I remember when I started using web flow I could just start and create things and yes the code was not like the cleanest but who cares, you know? I I could get the point across. I could start building and get on the train of building for the web and get excited. That's that's my point. The takeaway like here here is the excitement and I'm getting this excitement right now from cursor.

And I think that is what they are doing absolutely right. These people understand the product and they understand even the UI. It's just great that you can have the the developer experience and the more agentic experience. So they are they are allow this is what pros want. They want to have the ability the option to completely control their windows and do whatever they want. And maybe for people who don't want to go all that deep in the code, they can just embrace the vibes and just go to the agent mode and just chat and not even look at anything. By the way, even in the agent mode, you can still open the browser. So you could you could have a situation where you have only browser and agent and the agent does everything.

You see it in the browser and you don't have to touch code. you could do that. So, I'm very excited uh about this and I will get back do more of you know what I'm doing trying to trying to fix this. the the issue that I have, it takes two and a half seconds to load the first frame, but I know it can be fixed and I kind of have found what is causing it, but I can't do it in the right way with without breaking other things. And this is just because of my ignorant because I'm I don't understand uh WebGL and the GLSL um code that I have enough in in order to to fix this.

But yeah, that's what AI is for. Well, hope you understand. So far AI is like the the plan mode has been interesting like giving me plans and I have been able to create to isolate the problem in a different um repo and I'm like doing all of that but I have not found a lot of success bringing those foundings from that other repo to the main one and actually make it work with the rest of the code. But yeah, this is more complex than most people would think. Like with the with the waves and with the 3D and you know with the interactions, it's not the simplest interaction out there. So yeah, it's not made by me.

It's not also made by AI. This is made by a developer who's not available unfortunately anymore to to help some trying to do it do the rest with AI. Fair enough. I mean it's a good way to learn to uh figure. So, do you do you ever have the code open or are you most I do I no I don't I don't use the agent mode all that much even though I I showed you that new way of doing it uh because I was like trying to understand the console log trying to log out everything that is happening and see when is what is breaking uh but typically I'm in the editor mode trying to understand and a lot of the time I'm in the ask or plan mode.

I try to do agent mode as you know less as possible like I don't want to do it a lot because I want to learn that's my primary goal right now is to understand okay what is like the experiment experience um code like what does do what and this is quite complex for somebody on my level but still still it helps this is not the only project I'm working on. I'm working on a few other projects and um like if I show you like on GitHub I I just started you know pushing previous these are not done exactly by me. These were like my developers telling me to to push something, but right now I'm like these are done by by me.

Like I'm trying to It's It's funny how you you really solidly started using Git because before the call obviously you were like how do I revert and whatever I was like okay do this do this do this and everything was sorted that uh a month ago looking at that graph you wouldn't even have been using git. So yeah. Yeah. And I am now I'm like going from no code to knowing code. It's still early but it's fine. You know to your point of like what year web flow to that whole uh spiel is this is what it should be all about and this is why I hate this gatekeeper attitude that people have about oh these vibe coders.

It's like you know you're really enjoying what you're doing. It's it's it's inviting you to dig deeper. you want to learn shaders, you want to learn 3JS and all this, that, and the other. And it's like, this is where it starts. But people have their they have their back up against all of these tools that enable people to to get on board. I can't I just don't understand why people can't be happier that we have we're we're in an age where tools are getting easier and you can just prompt your way into a website, you know? Well, well, this was this was true about web flow as well, by the way. Like I remember 2018 2019 agencies would not say they are using web flow.

Many would not say it. It was their hidden tool. And now the same is happening with cursor. People are not saying that they are using cursor. Many even if they are using it. Uh there are always these people who are really good as at adopting new technologies and they are really good at learning it. the these people are, you know, early adopters, really fast, really smart. Uh, and some of them they might just keep it to themselves. They just, you know, do amazing things and you look at their amazing work like how the hell did you do that? Like if you didn't know Framer or Web Flow, if you had no idea about it and you would see like a really cool animation.

This still happens to this day. You see these cool animation. I share them on my uh Instagram. People are like how the hell is that even possible? And you know with web flow it's very easy. Well it is easy for me it is easy for you because we know these tools. Um so yeah there are gatekeepers. Uh and equally I believe there are people who are not negative about it but they are just they don't share the tools that they are using because you know it makes them even more special. Yeah. Yeah. For sure. Yeah, but guys, you see it, use use these tools. Like cursor is the the newest hottest one and I'm uh having a hell a lot of fun using it.

Uh just a shout out to Neptune who is he's been in the comments section being like, "Oh, is this live?" Yeah, of course it's live, mate. Of course it's live. Um, and saying that, let's jump into the comments that we've been getting on some of our other videos because I think that's a nice way for us to see what you guys are saying, but also just articulate some of the thoughts I've been having. So, if I find the right um, sorry, I'm just finding the right thing to share here. So, do you want to talk about the comments? Yes, I do. Here we go. Got it. Um, but yeah, so our video, so the Mac M1 or sorry, the Mac video got a lot of eyeballs on it.

A lot of people are loving their M1 chips. Like there are some people in here who are who are still rocking the Intel. I don't know whether I can get on board with the Intel uh bandwagon. Where was it? There was somebody who said something about their Intel and I'm like okay as long as it work and I think this is a really really crucial point like if you there's always this desire to like get the latest and greatest but if you are not encountering any sticking points then you you don't need to upgrade realistically I know it's nicer to have the fastest you know and the latest and greatest but you really really don't and this is the sentiment here we go i5 chip.

There we go. Mini i5. Yeah. Um, and I think that's great. And I'm still very happy with my M1 um, machine. It's still totally fine. And to reiterate the video, I've I upgraded to an M1 like top of the line, which would have cost five grand or four grand if id bought it brand new, but I bought it off a guy down the pub. The point is is it I'm not even capturing that, you know, that um, the full potential of it doing what we do. However, however, I have been doing some research and more specifically in the nature of the show, I've been looking into LLMs and running LLMs locally and how they work.

And I just kind of wanted to piggyback off this episode and and share kind of what I've been learning. And I think I think at low key uh Macs are kind of primed to be a really really um advanced and um what's the word I'm looking for? Basically, it all comes back to unified RAM. Yeah. And the idea, you have your graphics card and that has a level of RAM in it. you know, you you'll get 16, you'll get 92, you'll get 128 gig in that uh in that RAM of that machine. And then you have your normal DDR5, DDR6 RAM chips, which you know plug into the CPU or whatever. Don't know the specifics around what it plugs into or whatever.

Macs have this thing called unified RAM. So, right off the bat, you already know how much VRAM is available to your your graphics card just by buying RAM. Yeah. So, you said something along the lines of 16 gig is the maximum you should go to. When we start talking about LLMs, which again, my my video went out today. I I run cursor using point it to a local LLM and run local um AI to power my agentic mode in inside of cursor, which was really fun. You you need to be very mindful that you need to load in the AI. Obviously, you need the space on your machine. uh let's say for example it's a 20 billion parameter model that takes up you know 17 gig of space or something like that that whole 17 gig needs to be able to load into your VRAMm of your graphics card and if you don't have that you can't run the model it just starts chugging and it just it just fails miserably so if we were to talk about AI if you were to look forward into local AI which I I'm getting more and more convinced by the day that local LLMs will become so so important.

I going back to what I said previously, I think it's preposterous that we are controlling our browser with remote LLMs. I think there's so much that we can do on our local machine. We just need the machines to get faster and the the technology just to get a little bit better as with everything, of course. Yeah. But I still think we're the the graphics will be a bottleneck in all of that. So, what am I saying here? If you are looking into get into AI, local AI, and you are a designer or you are a developer, yes, the M1 will take you very very far. The M1 Pro is the top spec you should probably go for um in all of that.

Not the Max, fine, but it will really struggle if you're running AI LLM and stuff like that. And that's maybe when you should start looking into the more recent models because I reckon I I kind of want to buy the M5 to be honest just to try it and see how much better it is. Um still need lots of VRAM that's the thing but the chip might ex that that will load the model but the speed at which it can um do the AI that you can have a a more reasonable chip like the M5. I just want to kind of try it. But yeah, it was sort of like as I was starting to understand more about Max AI, what these machines are capable of.

I think what we were saying is good if you're strictly development, like old school development using remote AIs and design. That was a long speech, but I just thought I'd share what I've been learning and and that kind of went into the video that I I put in that I released today. Um, so all I'm hearing is um you want a lot of a lot more subscribers so we can both afford M5 Ultra so we can run our local RMS. Yeah, that's what we need, guys. Exactly. Exactly. Yeah. But now, you know, saying all that, I was so happy with my M1 and you know, as we were saying last week and as everyone's been saying, the M1 is totally fine for what we do.

as I start to get more interested in local LLMs and AI in general, like it's like I'm looking I'm waiting for that M1 Pro and I'm like and then I would think M5 M5, sorry. M5. Yeah. Um I would I would completely go completely against your advice. I would max out the RAM because you know I've got I've got 64 gig of unified memory on this machine which can load a fair few amount of models but the the cores the speed at which my GPU is running that I mean I've got 30 core GPU but it's just not powerful enough to actually you know um I need to learn the vocabulary to to talk about this but like the speed at which the AI can run that's where the M1's really really struggle.

I can load the model but can't run it fast basically. Um but yeah, it's been really cool just kind of going on this nerdy journey. So go and subscribe to me and watch that video and give it a like and give it a you know all that sort of lot. Um any thoughts on that before we move on to the other one? No, not much. So the other thoughts I had one one video that did get a lot of attention which Neptune shout out to you uh who joined us through that video is the Figma pricing. So if you go up if you go up and click on popular scroll all the way up. Uh there we go.

There we go. Cool. Okay. Cool. Um shut this guy off. He's uh I don't want to hear what he has to say. Someone says something now. I'm loving what you guys are saying. Like I think people are really, you know, people want framer to come watch our video. I think people are really upset with the pricing. There was one guy actually I just responded to who was like, you might have something to say about this. He he was suggesting that we should be, you know, expensing the price to our clients. But I don't think that's it doesn't matter whether it's your clients or it's you paying. Like it's still an unattractive offer for anyone to have to spend that amount of money.

Like it's not it doesn't matter that your client is paying for it. And we shouldn't be so bold to just recommend something just and that costs them a lot of money just because it's easier for you. So it's a cyclical thing. That was just a comment that came in in the last half an hour. But the one sorry will you say something? Uh I want to say something about that comment. Uh I'm going to uh Okay. So I'm going to remove that and show that this I in that video we said that we are going to make a new I'm going to make a video on that. Just a preview of that video and to answer that comment we have like it's a framer template and I have two editors added.

Everything is free right? Everything is free. I'm like editing, designing, three people all. So, editors are free in design mode, too. Yes. Nice. Now, nice. Didn't know that. Now, now, now I go to plans and let's say maybe I want the one with AB testing. It's €100 a month. Or maybe, okay, let's go with the the the cheapest version that I can buy because this is over the limits already. You'd be like, what do you think? like this is going to cost like a few hundred euros uh a year. I press unsubscribe and here it's going to cost me 1,300 per year. Oh my god. And the thing is like editors can come and go.

So I wonder what that means from a perspective of like well I have this editor who I need to work on it for the next month but then then they're done. Yes. You know. Yeah. So you have the seat. Um I I I'm pretty sure you will have the seat and you can give the seat to somebody else but once you bought it you bought it and yeah that so this is just one of the issues and the bigger issue here is I I want everybody and I will have make make sure in my main video everybody to understand this this is per site this is not per workspace so you can have free workspaces free project Everything everything is free until you want to go live.

So I have when I go live for this project for myself and my team that both of my team members in this case are me and myself. For myself and uh my team I have to pay €1,300 and then I have a second website. For that website I have to pay another 1300. You can't transfer that editor across projects, you know, which doesn't it's per it's per project. But in web flow yes we have workspaces but once you pay for a workspace for your team that team has access even to other workspaces. So it's like very very generous in that way once you have the the team even your clients don't have to pay for your seat.

So yeah, this is quite expensive and yeah, your clients shouldn't pay €1,300 n they shouldn't pay €900 for editor seats. That's just ridiculous. It's crazy. Crazy. and and you know this kind of comes off the back as well of the the we commented on the ad which we said it's not it's a very clever and funny ad saying all these other companies say it's free but it's only a taster. This is their version of what exactly what they were joking about like it's free until you need to pay for a site and then it's it's completely I was going to say a bad word. I don't have an issue with it costing money. My problem is it's very unjustified, very ridiculous, ridiculously priced.

So, this is why this is a good segue into this comment here, Web Studio being the way to go. And I don't want to labor on too much about Web Studio specifically, but it's this idea of like, you know, framer and web flow, they are giving you a very good service. They are taking a lot of headache. There was another comment here that said something along the lines of they're all really expensive. And I responded with that's the price of convenience. They're giving you so much. You don't have to worry about maintenance. You don't have to worry about uptime. You don't have to worry about CMS. Some one of these guys responded with the web studio thing.

And this is something if you don't know what web studio is, it is literally just the designer that gives you the website that you can go host anywhere. I think that's the big sales pitch of web studio. And I show you how to do that again on another one of my videos. I show you how to do that. It's an Astro project which is one thing Web Flow have just contributed to as well. So they're pushing for Astro open source blah blah blah. Um and then you can kind of host it wherever you want. Off the surface sounds and and you know just to uh finalize what was saying there is like these are they do have a monopoly.

They do have a lot of say in what they pay because they are giving you a good service and it you're getting so much. It's an all-in-one solution. You're just paying for that convenience and I do think framer just are taking the piss a little bit. However, what can you do? Um yeah and I agree this is convenience. This is the price of a good product you know that doesn't need a lot of maintenance or any at all. Uh but framer has brought it to a ridiculous level and that's what we are calling out. Not the tool itself. The tool is amazing. It's just that the pricing to me is very unjustified and I don't want web flow to you know raise the price uh because framer can get away with it right um I had a client today they are on typo3 I mentioned this earlier before the call.

Typo 3 is a ancient old CMS. It's a very German thing apparently like in Germany it's popular but my CL this lead it's not my client yet. They are trying to come to web flow. Why? Because they want a CMS and an editor that can be maintained by the marketing team very specifically. This is like their need. Why? Because they don't want an engineer, you know, from their engineering team to go to work on typo 3. Why should in 2025, let alone soon 2026, an engineer like a full stack or like front-end engineer go work on a marketing website when we have framer and web flow and tools alike that can do it perfectly fine and they're migrating because of that.

Yeah. Yeah. Um so just to wrap up like the the web studio conversation here as well, I I did at one stage strongly recommend web studio because a lot of people were asking for this. They want the design capabilities of web flow but they don't want to be locked into that system. And I was like web studio is the way to go. And I still do think it's the way to go if you want that. However, when it I I was also, you know, quite pro I would promote like the price aspect of it. This kind of goes back into our conversation and actually we built I built a website with web studio and the CMS was Air Table right.

So the website itself was free to run. Web studio was uh sorry air table was also free to run. However, we were hitting limits very very quickly from the API um from for air table and we I had you know gosh how god knows how many hours I've put into actually building a a a system which caches and does this and does that so that we don't hit web um air table as much as we you know to to exhaust our API limits that cost a lot of money luckily it was for a friend I was more than happy to do it for her um but I if you weren't if if you didn't know how to do what I know how to do, you would probably reach out and pay for air table the CMS which gets what how much that costs 30 bucks a month.

So whilst I'm not paying for web studio anymore, 30 bucks a month goes into the pocket of it just gets offset. So that really solidifies how cheap web flow really is. even with things like web studio, you know, web studio do have now they allow you to host and and this that and the other, but the the CMS uh and also the CMS functionality once you enable it to get your website up and running and reading from Air Table, the moment you stop paying for the CMS functionality, which is a pro feature, you cannot then edit your site at all. So, kind of on Web Studio a little bit here because I'm quite disappointed that they took that feature away.

just exemplifies how cheap Web Flow is is basically what I'm saying. Yeah, web show off the bat isn't as cheap unless you just, you know, you want a designer that hosts a very static website with no CMS functionality, nothing like that. It's just a bog standard website. So yeah, Web Studio again, Web Flow surprisingly cheap coming out on top here. So yeah, contrary to popular belief. There you go. There you go. Um, do did you have anything else to say before we move on? No, we we should move on. We have a long list and we do not a lot of time. Yeah. So, we have we have a competitor to Nur. Did you see?

Did you know? No, I didn't. From Open AI. So, they are calling it uh what's it called? Let me just have a look. Let me just share it with you guys. No, wait. So, he he's just hired a top neurological researcher uh called um Mal Shapiro. He's a award-winning biomecular engineer. He basically pioneered this uh way of re looking at cells with ultrasound. I'm guessing that's something like the Apple Watch where it kind of bounces off. I don't know, more accurate, something like that. So, so Alman has hired him to he thinks there is a way a non-invasive way to read brain activity with ultrasound. So this whilst Neurolink actually drills into your skull and puts stuff in there, this is just completely using ultrasound.

a really interesting um uh advancement that I don't think they've actually done it yet, but Alman has hired him and I sort of felt like this went a little bit under the radar a little bit because it's this is amazing. Like it's really interesting and we'll get into some of the other stuff that Open Air have been doing. But this just did not get any airtime from anyone. So yeah, and I thought because you because you you you love the the the Neuralink. Yeah, I like prior to Elon going crazy, I would say just drill a hole in my skull and install install this. Um, for people who don't know, I I'm not sure if people know Neurolink.

Uh, have you have you seen the Neurolink that the famous monkey video? Um, what from Neurolink? Yeah. No. Have I? Uh, give me a second. I'm pulling it up. Yeah. So, so this is a famous very old video. Oh, I have I have Yeah. Yeah. Four years ago. And just in short, this monkey learns how to use a joystick to play a game and then they obviously they they are monitoring his uh brain activities. And later on in the video, you see that they deattach deattach the joystick and he's just thinking and moving his muscles and they are like basically controlling the computer by this monkey just thinking about controlling the cursor he's not physically controlling it so this is very important to understand and this was four years ago today uh this has been installed on human brain and actually like there are people who can type on their smartphone faster than any other human can type on a smartphone just by thinking without like just a normal iPhone with a neural link um attached to their head.

Now that comes with a big uh caveat and it's it's um mentioned in this video by Cold Fusion very well. I really recommend this video and I think we will add this also to the description. uh you should watch it. So there are a lot of companies doing what Neurolink is doing. Neurolink was like a pioneer or at least they were really good at marketing themsel in that way. Um and the issue with Neurolink is that you have to drill the skull like literally put a hole and then add like micro needles. These are very small tiny tiny wires that literally penetrate your brain tissue. They're inside of your brain tissue and that way they can read and write.

That's that's very important. They can read what you are like trying to do. That that that's not like for everything. They can't read what you are thinking. But for example, if you want to move your hand, these wires in your head, they pick up that you want to move your hand and it reads it. And not just that, they can also write to it. meaning that you could if you are blind I believe there are like even uh it's not just theory they've been like uh implementing this in um some some to some level of uh success that like there are cameras maybe not as high quality as these cameras but there are cameras that can capture the environment and then they send the signal to to the patient's brain and the in your brain you would see what the camera is seeing And theoretically in the future, we'll be able to have like ultra vision or whatever, you know, zooming and night vision and everything just by attaching these devices to your head.

And this has been something that Neurolink has been very good at. But now a lot of companies, a lot of competitors uh are coming up with, as you said, like other ways without penetrating the skull, without like drilling a hole. Um, other companies are trying to have a device that can read without needing a surgery and Neurolink itself has a lot of issues because it's not very stable apparently. So, it works for a few months and then it stops working or these needles some of them stop working. So, the read speed and the the the amount that you can do with it decreases sharply over like a very short period of time. Still all of that being said, this is very early uh but it is very exciting.

It's in the first stage it's great for people with dis disabilities but soon it will be for practically everybody right you would be able to control communicate potentially and with AI it's just getting more uh wild and it's yeah it's it's very fascinating. So with the open AI uh version, so it's a kind of com because it's hard to think that it's hard to believe that the one that literally is putting needles in someone's brain is sort of failing or not failing, but you know what I mean? It it it stops working and then you've got open AI who's saying they can do it through ultrasound, which is like you think that the thing that going right into the brain is is going to work.

So one part to the open AI one is that they it's a gene manipulation thing as well. So basically it won't be that you well I mean you can but the step one of the journey of using this system is that you start to change your genes that so that they respond to ultrasound. So your cells respond to ultrasound and that will go into your brain and then and then that's how you control it. It's kind of like wireless charging. Yeah. For for for smartphones or whatever. It's sort of like you're you're putting the technology in the blood in the in the in the in the the tissue in the matter. Um and then using a device to then control and and manipulate or read and write and stuff like that.

So again, all very very very interesting. Similarly, let's let's go into Neo. I think this is a good point to bring up the new robot, the new fancy robot. Yeah. But uh where is it? Um let's go with an intro maybe for this one. So uh I didn't write an intro. So do you want to go in? Yeah, just go with you know explaining what it is. So this is a robot that you invite into your home and it does all of your the things that you hate. Washing, drying, folding, hoovering, cleaning of all sorts. Sounds like the dream, right? You hate cleaning. There's a catch. There's a freaking catch. Of course I hate cleaning.

Jesus Christ. Um, so this is Neo. I think that was a pretty good intro just to rattle off. No, it was good. It was good. So this is Neo. Um, and he's a 5 foot67 cm tall soft wow. I say soft body. No, it's a it's a robot. It's metal. But um kind of the soft exoskeleton or costume on that will walk around and we'll do everything that you hope and dream for the mere low low price of 500 bucks a month which sounds pretty reasonable. I looked at that and I was like you know what I could do. Or you buy it for $20,000. You buy it for 20,000 outright. Okay, that's the total price, which you know, if you've got the money, you go for it, you know, but 500 starts to make it a little bit more palatable.

We're starting to get somewhere here. You can maybe the video as we explain control it with your with your um today. You can control it with your phone. So, you schedule it to morning, evening, uh morning, afternoon, or evening to do various different chores around the house. So when you're off at work, it will just kind of do its thing and and do whatever you you set it to do. So pretty pretty cool. Um but what's the catch? Well, there was an who was it? Wall Street Journal. There was an interview that was done with the Wall Street Journal. A demonstration that was done with the Wall Street Journal and it did all of these chores and stuff like that.

But what was happening around the the um around the corner was it was being teleoperated. Everything that it did was completely and 100% teley operated by someone with a with a MetaQuest headset on and a couple of remotes. Uh so it was not AI at all. So this is where we start to crumble. Yeah. So the catch is it can't do any of the things that it's promising to do. It can't do right now. It cannot do anything. You are paying $500 a month or $20,000 to be part of a beta testing scheme, which I think is just preposterous. Like this is something that they should actually get to we're getting to the opinions too soon.

Okay. But you you're basically buying into a beta system where they can use the robot. I don't know how the learning takes place, what where it's learning or do they program it and let it do certain things and then someone interjects when it struggles or something like that. But point is um it is a beta testing period said. Yeah. And there is no known release date either. Okay. There's there's no known release date. So it's not quite the the dream quite the dream. I'm still fairly excited about it. I'm always excited about new technology, but it's it's this and Marcus Brownie put it well. It's it's you know the promise the distance between the promise and what is actually what what you're actually paying for.

Yeah, these 3D shots are fire though. Yeah. Yeah. Um Yes. And the the robot is also quite small and it's not really powerful to do any like heavy lifting. So it can do small things but even the fingers and the sensors are not amazing to do like every like small thing like picking up a cable requires so much precision like we are taking it for granted that we can pick up something small so easily without even thinking about for granted. Yeah. I I think you you suddenly learn how much we take for granted. For instance, just a side note here, when you're talking about something injecting vision into your brain, just picture that you are able to not only see vision and look around, but you're also able to think things at the same time.

Now, does this you know, that's that's multitasking, right? To be able to see something. Your brain is doing that. You you totally take that for granted. Anyway, sorry. Yeah. So the idea is that you pay 500 bucks a month and probably somebody across the world in a country where labor is much cheaper is operating this robot to move in your house. And it's quite different from just having a camera from a company in your like my cat feeder has a camera and it's a Chinese you know product like every other product you know it's quite different for me knowing that that cat feeder camera can be theoretically can be you know operated by somebody and you know they can see it see things compared to a freaking robot that can walk around the house and you know that's pretty creepy in a different level that what I don't like and also that it's it's not great at doing anything that they are uh promising it it can do for example the things that they show the things that supposed to be this robot to be the best at like for example let me show this one it's just so freaking freaking bad.

It's just so clunky. Look at this. It's rewind a little bit. Just rewind a little bit. Yes, it's Well, if I rewind even more, it will become painful. Let's No, no, no. Let's play from where you just had it. Yeah. Let's watch these. This gets like look to open the door of that dishwasher, you have to keep your balance and go back and open it. We take all of that for granted and these robots obviously with machine learning and we've seen a lot of things from Nvidia they can learn a good deal this bit but it's they are just not there the reason the reason why I don't think we should play a lawful lot because copyright so we can't just I no we are like we're like I think this is like uh completely fair use we commentating on this uh precisely.

Anyway, doesn't matter. We got we got stopped before. So, um so we we we have these issues with this robot and have you like look at this again. Have you had a junior like a absolute junior on the team or like anywhere in any team trying to do something and you see how painfully slow and wrong it is and you just take the tool and you do it yourself. I see this and I just think, "Oh, I can't I can't watch the robot do this. I have to just just do it." But if you're stood there watching a robot do this, then you need to you need you don't need the robot. You've clearly got too much time on your hands.

But um the idea is good that it could theoretically of course there's plenty of robots out there that there's plenty sorry there's plenty of companies out there that have built these robots to do this just Neo or 1x sorry they are bold enough to say they've launched something which they kind of haven't and it's a glorified beta testing system which half these companies are doing they're just doing behind the scenes. So, I think they were just like first mover kind of advantage um to just say they're doing something plus get some more money because there will be people who you know I'm not I'm not totally against having someone like I hate being told that we should worry about certain things like honestly there are some privacy things that I just do not mind and if this teller operated thing like they've got so much to lose by being um you know uh malicious about their role as long as they're, you know, you you might worry about it being hacked or or bypassed or something like that, but what one, what really can they do, and two, you know, they've got so much to lose by letting things mess up.

So, anyway, it depends. Yeah. Like, but like in your house, you especially it's a it's a machine with cameras. It's a robot that can move and theoretically it can like I don't know take your stuff and look stuff over. So, it could be malicious, right? It could be malicious. And we've seen like leaked documents uh from Tesla, for example, because they have also cameras and we have leaked documents like internally um people at Tesla looking at footage of random people and you know, joking around you. You know, things happen in people's houses and they send these video clips internally and some of them leak. So yeah, you don't want your data potentially. Maybe you don't have something to hide, but you still don't.

That's what I mean. If you've got if you've got something to hide, then you should not be buying this. Yeah, but you know, but I don't and even if you don't, you know, um I don't know is what I'm saying. So different strokes for different folks. I'm not about to tell anyone they shouldn't worry about it, but I guess Yeah. Would you let this robot to be in your house if you had the money to spend or if you That's what I'm saying. Probably would you probably if I had the money? Yeah, that's what I'm saying. Like even if it can't do much. Um yeah, I'm into helping beta test or whatever. I I mean, you know, there's many many more questions you you ask me.

Like I don't think they should be b you should be paying to beta test this thing. Um, but you know, it would I would depending on what it's like in a in a few in a year's time or whatever. But yeah, it it like the the fact that Okay, let's reverse the question. If this was not teleyoperated at all, like would you be happy with this in your house? Yeah, I'm I'm I will be on the line to buy a robot like right after the show. I have to clean up the the space because I will have guests over. So you know I'm I'm not really looking forward to that but uh this is my issue is not only the tea operability but also like mostly it seems like from the video it seems like it's not really helpful.

It can't do the things that they are promising to do. Yeah. Um let's move on because we've got loads to get to and I'm just mindful of the time. Let's talk about similarly let's talk about this live stream that open AAI uh made some interesting revelations sorry if you can hear that made some interesting revelations and some optimistic predictions one of them being robotics which I thought it was quite appropriate but some interesting this was a very informal the camera is completely out of focus it's focused on this MacBook here completely informal thing which I think would be they want to try and aim to do this every month they want to try and do this informal thing every month.

They were trying to give insight into where things are going and they answered some really brutally honest questions like will you just finally admit that chat GBT is a disaster and this and that and the other lots of questions about GBT40 etc etc. So very raw, very uh very honest apparently. But some key things that I picked up on which were quite interesting is that Sam alluded to uh no sorry he didn't even allude to he put a chart here. See this little grayed out thing here. They've alluded to devices. Now we know about the uh pin or whatever it is that that he's working on with Johnny IV. That's a device. This is devices which allude to an idea of multiple things they're looking at.

Now we know that chat GBT are throwing everything at the wall and seeing what sticks. They are they are trying to prove that AI is not a bubble and that they can get some money from somewhere. No, no two bones about it. But this was quite interesting for me. Um we spoke about well he did they did actually say robotics so that may or may not be another device don't know so devices could be uh could be a thing it's interesting as well how Atlas is very much a prominent thing here they this is does this make sense to you this kind of stacking that I was thinking about this yeah but third party applications kind of like taking this the rest of the space doesn't make much sense So what they're saying here so what third party it's saying third party applications can touch various stages of their platform.

Yeah, it can touch data centers, energy and racks. It can touch models. It can open AI account. That's what that means. Yeah, I understand. Oh, sorry. Generally speaking, it does. Generally speaking, it does make sense. Uh CH GP Atlas being an item that is also shows that they are um trying to bet big on it. Tons tons of like products like different products, different levels. And so another kind of tidbit from this uh stream that I picked up on is that they are predicting AGI by 2028 which no way like a it was like a a question from the audience type of thing and it was just you know he spent quite a while thinking about it but uh AGI by 2028.

Now, just a reminder, AGI is is completely self-learning AI that can take a brand new and novel challenge and be able to figure it out. Whereas, right now, we're working with an AI that has to learn and it just regurgitates information that it's already learned. Whereas, yeah, AGI and I what's it called? Artificial general intelligence. Yes. is that so very much human like developmental and we're talking about a conscious intelligence and I'm not even um consider maybe the like maybe I'm getting too spiritual but I don't think AGI will ever re consciousness but I think everyone has their different you know it's a spectrum that people no yes it is a spectrum and we won't like you know like it's not like movies that we have software And then we have a conscious uh intelligence.

It's not like from that from this to that overnight. It will be like a gradual learning uh for the systems to get intelligent. But to me, AGI has been and always like the definition will be it is intelligent and it is conscious to the point that it is at least similar in some ways to human intelligence. It doesn't have to be, you know, the same tissue and the same logic that we have, but it needs to operate fundamentally on logic. It has to be intelligent in that way and be able to store memory, you know, get basically read and write memory. Uh, and these systems that we have are not that at all. Like we have essentially just a prediction machine.

These uh LLMs are just a huge like very very very big and advanced prediction machine and they are just not I I don't I'm not convinced that with the current architecture we can reach AGI. I'm not convinced. Maybe we will and I will be happy to see that but we are not there. That's one point. Another point that I would love to ask and see what you think. If Sam Alman can get us AGI, why would if you can get a h get access to AGI? Why would you share it? If it's a super intelligent that can let's just stay at building software. If it can build software on demand, why would you share it?

Why don't you just rebuild all the software in the world and just give it you know to people for a very small subscription and at the end you are making like all the money in the world because you have bas you have all the intelligence you have like you can do anything you are in the god mode why would you share the god mode with others it's a weird analogy but it's it's it's how money changes people Okay, people always say like, "Oh, if I had all this money, I wouldn't change and I would do this and I would do that." And then when they finally win the lottery or they finally come into money, most people change like that, right?

They because they don't anticipate the impact that it has on them, the the power it has over on them and all of a sudden you start to see people's personality change. I think this bit might be the same thing that Sam Alman and the team encounter AGI. They suddenly realize, "Holy crap, we can literally in a split second write a complete framework for governments to manipulate and control the the the um the the the planet in a way where they'll never this is a a very very uh it's not even simple. It's actually probably the worst thing you could probably do with AGI is just completely manipulate the world with this intelligence um in a way that we never even understand.

That's so like if that's not already happening, which it probably already is to be honest. But anyway, so question to me, why would you share it? I, you know, I'd like to have faith in people. I like to, you know, and I want to know I want to, by the way, this is very very separate to do I think we should share it. That's very separate. That's a different uh question. But like I like to believe that people are good and they want to empower the rest of of the world. By the way, I just want to shout out to Austin who who's given us a shout out and he's also saying, "I think AGI will follow the same use case as self-driving.

First see some small use cases, then we'll scale over a few years." Agi 2025. Absolutely. And that comes from a safety aspect of like what do people do with it? And that goes back to what was kind of I was going alluding to is like, you know, if you sell AGI at, you know, 200 bucks a month, you're get you're literally giving the keys to terrorists to do some awful awful things. I don't think AC AGI should be publicly available. I think it's just it's wild to give AGI to make AGI publicly available an abstracted layer which is what Austin's saying this gradual process we should roll it out and just see what people do with it the moment people start doing crazy with it we we take it back a pay because yeah but it's it's very you're getting me scared now I think we should move on yeah it's the genie uh out of the box that um we can't put back right that's the thing uh Go on.

Uh, one last thing that I want to mention is I'm watching this video. I'm going to just uh show it on the screen for people who might be interested. I'm in the middle of it. It sounds very very interesting. Uh, Hank Green, like huge YouTuber. This video called Chet GPT isn't smart. It's something much weirder. And they talk about what AGI could be. they are talking about like what is being smart and you know if we are on that path again I'm in the middle of it it's very enjoyable um I highly recommend watching this and there are some explanations from very simple going into quite a bit more technical than I uh thought it would but they go into this technicality of explaining how we get from com from GPUs you know sold by uh Nvidia to a computer that speaks back to us, how we go from that to that.

So, highly recommend uh watching it. Cool. And yeah, just the last one here is they're looking to build a 20 gawatt a week factory with each of those gigawatts costing $20 billion. So, that's 20 billion a week. Now, I know, well, I don't know actually. I've heard that that a lot of these companies are looking to nuclear energy to you know where this energy comes from is is not specul is not said here but this is crazy and they want to get that price down obviously like $20 billion a week is just crazy crazy crazy but just some tidbits that I picked up on this uh stream that I thought was was um interesting to share just to let you know go on 20 kilowatt uh gigawatt gigawatts 20 gigawatt per day.

Per week. It's on the screen. Per week? Yeah. Oh, yeah. Sorry. I I was looking at my screen. Uh just asked I asked Google how much a city uses. I I mean it varies from city to city. Uh obviously. Mhm. But it says like a city uses two kilowatts per day. A city. Yes. So this is like insane. So, so we are we are talking about like soon AI will uh consume a good percentage of the the total energy that humanity uses but we are not there by the way yet and it's we're not even close it it's using a lot of electricity uh but AI is lo using less electricity than most people would probably guess or like media tries to show.

Same with water. I've seen that um that there are like a lot of people being scared of the amount of water these um infrastructures use, but it's not nearly as close as you know to to some like football stadiums or facilities use. Um so yeah. Yeah. Um, we won't get into it just because of time, but like you you've seen Stargate, which is a plan to put GPUs and compute in the in space, which would be very very cold, but uh yeah, wild. It's very cool. It's very cool. I like I love the idea like putting those in the space with like big big solar uh panels. But we will have like a lot of issues.

We will have also we need to uh take care of the what's it called like the in like on earth we have we don't have issue with the solar winds but up there we have and we need to we're talking about like that level of GPUs up there and also I I believe that the the lifespan can't be over like um a few years up to a decade maybe so yeah there are a lot of problems s that need to be solved to make that happen. So soon we will get uh the Dyson sphere by the way. So that's the path to Dyson sphere. Yeah. So um just want to give you a shout. If you are on YouTube right now, give the video a like.

That would be great. And if you're not on YouTube, scan that QR code, come over to YouTube and uh give us give us a like over on the video because we could really do with the support. Anyway, that's the AI part of the show over. Not intentionally because this week has been a completely designfilled week starting with Affinity and Canva. Now this uh they've made it completely free. The redesign is sick and they've merged all the tools into one. Basically, if you don't know, Affinity Designer, Affinity Photo, Affinity Layout or something like this, they've called it layout. Now, I don't quite think this is nipping at the heels of Figma. However, I think Adobe definitely has got to be worried.

So, first of all, what do you think of this this design they're going with right now? Absolutely beautiful. You like it? I love it. Yeah, I love it. I've got some more design questions for you later on because there's another Yeah, I love all of their designs. It's very bold. It's uh I like I like their new brand and it's it's not Adob like like have you seen like Adob website? It's just so bad. They're so corporate. They're just too Yeah. Um, this is interesting, right? This this thing here because I have not I've got a And by the way, I'm jumping the gun right now because I haven't even taken you through it, but I've got a note to say.

I don't see any collaboration, whereas this gives me collaboration vibes. Anyway, this is Yeah, this is the first thing I thought about when I saw Affinity combining all their three apps. So you have pixelbased like um Photoshop, you have vector similar to Adobe Illustrator and you have layouts like uh Adobe Inesign all in one app. And I the first thing I thought was like are they also going after Figma? Because that would make sense. Why shouldn't they? They they have Canva backing them. Well, they they are owned by Canva. So maybe it's only it's only because um I mean there's no reason why they shouldn't. Absolutely. It would be interesting to see where they go.

But obviously, you know, these they're obviously they took shots at Adobe during this presentation. By the way, let me uh let me just quickly share that tab. Um, yeah, they are they talk about bloat and it would be very bloaty if they were to take a a web design tool into their one tool. I don't know. I think let's see how they get on with web design is very very different to graphic design. think the graphic design is and publication is what they're really going for here rather than but still like why not have um a canvas that can be shared with others collaboration that oh no absolutely collaboration is very different I'm talking about web design I'm talking about yeah like the actual creating of a website but yeah collaboration again if this website is just this is anything to go by I wonder if that's you know why do you need someone's name as the mouse you know maybe that's a clue saying all that.

I didn't hear anything about collaboration in this. It might they might have said something. Let us know in the comments. Um Austin saying, "Crazy production quality. Deaf get a like." There you go. Boom. Good quality. Good production quality is there. Let's um let's talk about a few other things then. So, yeah, the it's now completely free. This was a one-time purchase, which made me a lover of Affinity. I I moved on to Affinity and years and years ago. Uh I'm very happy to see that it's gone free. Now the iPad version is coming, but that Adobe uh sorry Adobe uh photo 2 and illust uh the designer and the publisher too. They're all free on iPad, but the new app is yet to come.

I think they even say it here. Um there's one format. So it's a file. They had a lot of fun with that on stage. infinite canvas which you can zoom in like a they said a million or something six million yeah six million% or something and what is really cool with the the format that they have that AF format that you can call your files cool yeah yeah and the most interesting thing the most interesting thing I think here which is why it's free is and what I'm actually quite excited about is that they've got Canva AI features built into these tools. So, they got AI tools built in for your the classic extending a photo like retouching things like that.

AI fill that is what's going to set you back £13 or100 uh pounds a year uh for that. That requires a Canva premium subscription, but it gives you the AI features here. So, it's this interesting thing that it's that free gateway that Framer are doing that you pay off the back end. However, 13 quid, not too bad. Um, and yeah, you could probably dip in and out of that quite easily. So, really interesting going after um Adobe here and a real uh positive thing to come out of the acquisition by Canva. So, I'm here for it. I'm excited. I I didn't think like we all thought okay Canva bought this cool app and now they are going to charge just like Adobe but they did the absolute opposite of that and the the keynote was really fun because on the keynote they said uh what what was like the exact quote that Adobe they didn't call call it they didn't say they just said about bloated software charging what they want And they said because of they charged what they want and they said there was one choice and that one choice they charged they meant Adobe they charged whatever they want and they said because of corporate greed they literally said it and that that was really fun and the audience really liked that because Adobe is like that you you used to get a monthly payment uh you could like buy ADO product for a monthly payment but you couldn't cancel it.

it was a yearly subscription you that you couldn't cancel and if you would have to cancel you would have to pay I believe like 50% of the remaining uh time for the software that you don't want to use. Now I want to to tell you something very embarrassing that um how can I say this? It's really hard to say it. I've been paying for Adobo Photoshop just on its own. Just Photoshop because I I need it from time to time and I just never cancel because it comes in again and again that I need it. That is going to end today. Yes, I knew about it but I'm just I'm Yeah, I'm pretty like decent with Photoshop.

Like I know my way around Photoshop really well. is I still have hiccups with affinity. Like I'm I've used Photoshop for years and years, you know, contrary to popular belief, if you're part of my nano banana LinkedIn discussion, um I've used Photoshop for years and I I I miss the AI stuff, you know, the the fills and things like that. I'm very much like you just know my way around Photoshop, but I just refuse to pay um for it. There you go. today. I'm going to Yeah, I'm going to absolutely cancel it and not look back. And yeah, I I regret spending every uh bit of money on ADO because of all the time that it crashed on me and all the pain that I've been through and every single time that I can't even cancel easily.

Like I'm trying to find a cancel. I can't I don't know how how can I cancel like it it's not in the payment. I don't know. change you. Cancel your plan. There you go. And I'm trying and I'm sure they will like toss in like not I've been logged in. Why do you want me to log in to cancel my plan? They deliberately make it difficult to cancel. They have tons of like these like very greedy tactics to not let you go. And I just don't like that. Don't appreciate it. Uh another uh so where how should we move on to the uh Adobe news? Should we just continue here? Well, we've been talking because it's not much.

Yeah, go for it. Go for it. Go for Adobe uh Yeah, Adobe Max stuff. So, speaking of Adobe, uh we have a few Adobe news. Uh we had Adob Max, which is the yearly uh conference by Adobe. I haven't watched much of it, but I checked a few things about it. And we have a bit more AI in uh Photoshop. And what seems like people are very interested in there is an AI assistant inside of Photoshop. So you can tell Photoshop, hey, can you do this thing for me? And it does it for you. Uh it can also rename your layers. I mean, yeah. Didn't that come to Figma recently as well? That that was in Figma.

Yes. But now you have it in Photoshop as well. Uh but there are things about Adobe uh that are really good. Believe it uh or like it or not, Adobe doesn't just own Photoshop. Adobe owns the whole distribution of essentially ads and content and marketing. So from the creation of it, the moment you take a picture, Adobe owns that pipeline all the way to delivery and even analyzing how your campaign went. And this is what's very it's much less known about Adob. So when if you are doing anything like with serious photography, uh you have to use Adob Lightroom. There is nothing even close to Adob uh Lightroom. It's that good. Um, and you can you can do like crazy stuff with it.

And now with AI, and we don't I don't mean like the this slop generated nano banana AI. With like proper AI um like machine learning in Lightroom, you can do like noise reduction and like light changing and things like this like never before. So these things are really powerful. And then when it comes to distribution, Adobe even owns like CMS. They have a CMS of their own that many companies use and they have analytics tools and for campaigns for your ad campaigns. So yeah they they h they own that vertical and Photoshop and After Effects and these tools are being like a small part of that and these are being the part that they start like getting people in.

You get in because of Photoshop and then you continue you know because of their other tools. Uh, and it seems like Affinity is essentially doing the same thing by making it absolutely free for everybody. I can imagine new students just go with Affinity instead of anything else. Um, and that looks very uh exciting. So yeah, very cool. Adobe has some like very the point being like they have some tools for professionals that there is no other tool that can do the same. That's why they are so popular. It's they have a tons of tools, but they are also a very greedy company with dark UX everywhere and trying to charge money for everything and and not really being they they don't have a lot of competition.

I wish there was like a better tool than Lightroom, but there is not. Yeah, for me nothing can replace uh After Effects. I've tried Apple Motion like After Effects is just incredible. But yeah, it is what it is. Exactly. Um so designers rejoice again. Uh we have some updates from Figma too, which is uh wild. So they acquired a company called Weave. Now I don't know what the hell this is. Maybe someone else can figure it out in the comments, but I it obviously your prompt it's like a workflow. It reminds me of um uh Comfy UI, although I don't know how to use Comfy UI. It's a pipeline generator for motion graphics. It says it down here.

Image generation, video animation, motion design, V effects. This is this is big. And how this and how this integrates with Figma, I don't know because obviously we're used to pixel well I guess it's all pixels really but like videos and things like that. This this looks really cool and they call it Figma Weave. So keeping in the theme of Weaver, which is the company they acquired looks like a really exciting tool. Um there you go there. So that's building for the next generation. In under a year, we has built an amazing community under a year. Does that mean they've only been running a year and have been acquired by Figma? Crazy. Um yeah, there is a company we haven't spoken about who got acquired by OpenAI and they've literally just released one video.

It's called Sky and it's literally just a UI like they've they've created like a a clean floaty looking UI. They released one like video building apps and then they got acquired by open like crazy stuff about that. Um but anyway that's that updates also to Figma make uh scheme this is wrong Figma make basic go or or just schema it's not just Figma make like it's just called schema 2025 maybe oh I see design systems for a new era so go on you you take us through this okay so we have even a bigger update uh in maybe I don't know if I if we should start with this and end with the other one in the edit.

So we have this big update from Figma called schema. Uh and there is one part of this that is very interesting and Sam I know you will love this one. It's slots Figma components have been very powerful. You could do a lot of variations but that was also the issue. if you wanted to to combine like different variations, you really couldn't. So, you had to make even more variations. Now, with slots, which is something that we had in Webflow, and this is something that we have in programming, you can define areas where you can put other components in. So imagine you have a component of a card and inside of that card you can add images or text or whatever like for a blog or something else and you can nest these inside of one another and I don't know actually how many layers of nesting you can do.

Uh but essentially this is components within components and this was missing a lot in Figma and I'm very very excited to see it. Very cool. I guess I guess they like ex like they're responsive basically. Is that right? Well, you can make the component itself responsive, right? And then it will be responsive inside of uh that component essentially as well. Uh but the point being that you couldn't put different component sets inside of one another, but now you can and you can have like variations within variations, which is really cool. M and and just to be clear is this Figma or Figma make? This is Figma. Okay, but this is what I wanted to say.

This is probably going to come to Figma make as well which will be very interesting for creation of websites because this is a huge part of how we work with Webflow right now. It's big. It's really like nice to have slots inside of Webflow and having this in Figma make would be also quite nice. Uh they also have this extended collections that I'm not really sure what it is about. I'm not that big of a Figma user. uh but it seems like we like you have a main brand and then the extended collections are essentially like a subset of that brand that can be defined uh more granularly. So on the top level maybe you you define some level of the aesthetics of that brand like like for that big company your foundation.

Exactly. And then the subset like has different so it's like for sister companies that would make a lot of sense or like similar brands under the same main brand. Uh and we have a few other like smaller uh updates that I'm not really sure about and they have like improvements to the performance as you see here uh like the before and the after it happens immediately while before it took some time. Uh they also talked about I'm not sure about the code connect UI. I haven't checked that but they have the Figma MCP server. They already had this but apparently there are some improvements to the uh workflow there as well. Um let's have a little look.

Brings Figma component. You can now add guidelines for how AI models should adhere to your design system. Very cool. Very cool. Um so on the on the AI side then the other thing they released is uh design systems inside of Figma make. So again with that extended collection thing you can I guess I guess it's a huge use case to have and and I can already actually see it now that you have um businesses and organizations having this foundational design system and then lots of subsets as you say. So, this seems to be a big thing that they're going after right now. And it sort of alludes to maybe more of a corporate and I don't mean that in a bad way.

I'm just meaning that a lot of businesses are requiring that sort of functionality which they're trying to um facilitate with a lot of these updates, you know. Yeah. So, very cool. Uh, another update, this is for you. For teams who already have a design system in their codebase, we will allow you to import your React components. H. So interesting. I wonder in make. Is that in make or is that in Figma? This is in make. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Very cool. So it's like web flows dev link thing type of thing. So yeah, very cool. I wonder if the react components need to be a certain way or need to be formatted or included or it's just straight up dump of a React component.

But either way, um, very much looking forward to digging into that. They also have the importing and exporting variables. This could Yeah, this could get really interesting with probably also with other apps like Web Flow uh like Figma to Web Flow app. Maybe like a syncing maybe we can have like two-way sync of variables. That would be really nice. Um yeah. Um so that kind of wraps it up. I had one other thing that was more tech focused, design focused that I wanted to run past you that I thought was quite nice. Yeah. Uh unless you have anything else you want to go through. No, that that's pretty much it. Cool. So, do you know the the car company Rivian?

Yes. Yes. So they actually released or have announced this bike which looks wild. Um it's it's uh what do they call it? Um it's driven by wire which means that there's no traditional uh g gears and chain on this thing. You pedal to charge the battery which then powers the motor. So there's if you run out of battery in the middle of the sticks, you ain't getting anywhere because it's all done by battery. You have this hot swappable battery. Interesting design. Looks pretty cool. Uh it's called also. I'm guessing it's I don't know subsidiary of Rivian or something like that. But what I thought was quite nice and you're starting to see elements of it of it right now.

And I wondered what your thoughts are because I know it's very divisive is this neo brutalism design aspect. You know, you've got this eye is a classic one here. And this carries forward. You see it there. This carries forward to a little screen. There you go. Pedal, puzzle, pedal. Yeah. Um on the actual bike on the front. And I just thought this was really nice and a nice I don't know. It's just nice to see this out in the open. I don't know whether that's the right way to explain it, but I was really I just really liked it. Um yeah, Rivian is great at UI and in design. Like they are they've been killing it with with their designs.

Maybe their their cars, the look of their cars is not for everybody, but I do actually like the look in their cars. And if I could get one, I probably consider it. Yeah. Um, but the bike, I'm not I'm not a big fan of this bike. This is more like motorcycle than a bike. It looks like a bike, but but it's not really a bike because it, as you said, this is not connected physically to the uh tire. So yeah that you it's like a Flintstone powered bike basically you got to run to to power it but Exactly. And I'm pretty sure this because of like these extra gears it's going to be heavier than a normal bike and I'm not really looking forward to that part either.

But the design of it is really cool and I wish it was, you know, connected just like other bikes. Um, like had a wire and a chain. A chain would be really nicer than, you know, what is it called? Like wire. What did you say? Like Well, it's called steer by wire in the truck. But this is like steer by wire. Step uh Yeah. Either way, you you you I know what you mean. Exactly. Yeah. That's That's what I'm not a big fan of. That's really nice. Yeah. How much? Four and a half grand. Okay. That's actually not as much as I thought they would charge for this. I I saw a comment on someone's video saying that they just paid four grand for a, you know, a bike that has sort of half the features of this.

So, this is apparently not too bad. I don't It's out of my budget. Um, but yeah. Yeah. I I paid uh three and a half grand uh euros for an electric bike from Cube. I don't know if you know Cube. And it's not a smart bike. It's a It's a very powerful um electric bike. It has like a really good I I don't know like everything about it is kind of like top. But I didn't buy like the the most expensive cube bike because like some of the more expensive cube bikes cost about like six, seven, even I believe closer to 10k and this being just four and a half, it's it's not too bad, you know, especially having be being smart.

It seems like it it knows it has some stats and it connects to your smartphone probably. It will have an app and things like this. The bike that I got for three and a half is it just has, you know, the controller to to change the the speed and things like this. It's not a smart bike. Um, yeah. So, it sounds pretty reasonable then. So, yeah. I mean, the reason why I bring it to your attention is just this this app design, I thought it was really nice. And this does carry forward to the app. I I haven't found a picture of someone using the app, but it's like the app looks like this neo brutalism as well.

And I know a lot of people don't like it, but it's uh yeah, as I say, it's just nice to see. It's bold and it kind of carries through to the design of the bike, you know, but uh yeah, just thought it was quite cool. It has elements of Rivian as well, like you know, the light. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Cool. Well, that'll do it then. Cheers for tuning in this week. Uh thanks for joining us on this uh mad old journey. And I haven't written down the outro, so I've completely forgot what it was. But this is all we've got time for. Tune in next week for our live show. You'll obviously see all of the clips go out.

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