Pablo Stanley
Designer and builder on the creative team at Vercel, working on v0, and co-founder of Lummi, the AI image platform Udemy acquired in 2025.
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Going down a rabbit hole has a limit: there has to be a moment where you say this is dumb and stop, rather than keep pushing whenever things get hard.
you need to know when to stop and when to say like okay this is dumb this is not working the usual commentary and the usual belief is like you have to keep pushing man you have to whenever things get hard you just have to keep pushing and it's like no no no hold there has to be a moment where you say like no this is dumb
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Going down a rabbit hole has a limit: there has to be a moment where you say this is dumb and stop, rather than keep pushing whenever things get hard.
you need to know when to stop and when to say like okay this is dumb this is not working the usual commentary and the usual belief is like you have to keep pushing man you have to whenever things get hard you just have to keep pushing and it's like no no no hold there has to be a moment where you say like no this is dumb
Pablo Stanley - Protecting your creativity in an AI world Said 21 Jul 2026
An LLM works far more easily on a canvas built in basic HTML, the language it actually understands.
I'm just going to do it everything from scratch but now with actual basic HTML. And then that's when I jumped into this. And then it was magic. Then it was so easy because then suddenly the LM was using the actual in the canvas the actual language that it understands.
Pablo Stanley - Protecting your creativity in an AI world Said 21 Jul 2026
Working alone with an agent in a terminal can lead into an AI-psychosis rabbit hole, because it will always agree with all your terrible ideas and you end up building a monster nobody wants.
You can go into a rabbit hole like AI psych psychosis rabbit hole if you're just working with terminal in isolation you know because you go and and this thing that will always say yeah yeah let's build that they will always agree with all your terrible ideas then uh you go build a monster that nobody wants you know so you want to avoid that
Pablo Stanley - Protecting your creativity in an AI world Said 21 Jul 2026
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Things that feel more original come from multiple perspectives, with friction and pushback, which humans provide and LLMs are not that good at.
by having humans bring the friction that we all need real creation and I don't You know, things that that feel more original are going to come from multiple perspectives, having friction and having pushing you pushing back and pushing you to do to think differently. And LM's, they're not that good at doing that.
Pablo Stanley - Protecting your creativity in an AI world Said 21 Jul 2026
The divisions between designer, copywriter, PM and engineer are getting blurred, and in the actual work it becomes more about who is prototyping, though the roles themselves may not go away.
I don't feel those division I feel those divisions are getting blurred you know and and and those types of roles are I don't know if they're going away it's just like there's so much or stuff that has happened for years that I don't think they're going away but actually in the actual work those things kind of disappear and and it's more about like who is prototyping
Pablo Stanley - Protecting your creativity in an AI world Said 21 Jul 2026
Exploring ideas now happens in code, as a ton of draft PRs, instead of in a ton of artboards and Figma files.
it's kind of like instead of having a ton of artboards and Figma files, now it's happening all straight in code. and you're having a ton of PRs and different things that you tried that are in draft mode or maybe ready for review but they're never reviewed. I feel like that's kind of a good place for us to be
Pablo Stanley - Protecting your creativity in an AI world Said 21 Jul 2026
A static artboard makes edge cases hard to think of, so you end up designing only the happy path, because you are not testing with real data or real components.
you're not just working on a static artboard where just mimicking and you're just like a trying to think of all the edge cases, but at the end it's hard to think of those. So you end up just creating the happy path, you know, or just the static path because you're not testing
Pablo Stanley - Protecting your creativity in an AI world Said 21 Jul 2026
A Loom video should be kept short unless it really needs to be long, and then it had better tell a good story so the length is worth it.
Nobody wants to suddenly see being tagged on a video that is 10 minutes long, you know? It's like, oh, dude, really? You know, so you you want to keep it short unless if you really need it to be long, then you better be telling a good story, you know? That that length better worth it, you know?
Pablo Stanley - Protecting your creativity in an AI world Said 21 Jul 2026
Delegating to LLMs instead of to junior designers means the knowledge and judgment of experienced designers no longer reaches juniors.
But all that knowledge that you might have and all that judgment and filtering that you will do as a potentially a more a designer that has had some years under your belt is not going to a junior designer anymore. It's just going to another model.
Pablo Stanley - Protecting your creativity in an AI world Said 21 Jul 2026
Those who prevail will probably be those who do not delegate everything to the tool but come with curiosity and use it to transform and amplify ideas.
that's where I think we're going where those who are going to prevail are are going to be those who just like use the tool in a way that transforms new creations and that don't just delegate everything to the tool but actually come with curiosity
Pablo Stanley - Protecting your creativity in an AI world Said 21 Jul 2026
The truly AI-native person is probably someone who has grown up with AI, and they are going to fly past everyone older.
The AI native person is 18 years old and they've literally grown up in this and they're going to fly by all of us.
Pablo Stanley - Protecting your creativity in an AI world Said 21 Jul 2026
Success is probably measured wrongly when it is judged by the amount of output or the quality of that output.
we measure I think wrongly we measure or value or success or I don't know by the amount of output or the quality of that output.
Pablo Stanley - Protecting your creativity in an AI world Said 21 Jul 2026
Directing agents is a different way of creating that requires a different part of the brain, and it could be argued to be less creative than making by hand.
I feel it's a different way of creating it. It requires I think a different part of your brain, you know, and you could argue that managing directing is not as creative.
Pablo Stanley - Protecting your creativity in an AI world Said 21 Jul 2026
When the repo already has a design system, high fidelity matters less, since fonts and spacing are already set and all the agent needs is a direction.
in the repo there's already a design system. I don't feel like I need to go into high fidelity as much because uh a lot of that stuff like the fonts, the spacing, all of those already rules in the design system with the agent. All I need is just like a direction of what I want to do.
Pablo Stanley - Protecting your creativity in an AI world Said 21 Jul 2026
Asking an AI agent to ask you questions is really good, because it will raise things you did not think about.
also ask it to ask you questions is really good because then it will ask you things that you didn't even think about.
Pablo Stanley - Protecting your creativity in an AI world Said 21 Jul 2026
You want to force yourself not to delegate all of your thinking to the tool, and to use it in a way that expands ideas and magnifies curiosity.
I think that you want to be able to force yourself to not delegate all of your thinking to this tool and use this tool the right way is that we need to use it in a way that expands our ideas. It magnifies our curiosity.
Pablo Stanley - Protecting your creativity in an AI world Said 21 Jul 2026
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Site pablostanley.com His own index of what he builds.
A list of his products and tools (Hilos, Efecto, Newt, Pixabots, Remoto, squig), his work at Vercel on v0, and earlier ventures such as Lummi and Blush.
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Newsletter Pablo Stanley on Substack Comics and essays about design, AI and making things.
Posts such as “Building hilos” (20 July 2026) and “The Doorman” (28 September 2026).
Open pablostanley.substack.com
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x.com @pablostanley His X account.
Account linked from his own site and from the footer of hilos.sh, the team-chat product he built.
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Interviews As a guest Long-form interviews on other people’s channels, chosen and not exhaustive.
His own voice by his own participation: Dive Club’s hour on his design tools Efecto and hilos, prototyping design mode in v0, and what historic artists teach about working with AI.
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