... Last Christmas, I thought so. I built a simple Letters to Santa app - write a letter, get an AI reply. ~200 people used it. Then my niece asked Santa for a "purple flying unicorn." She got a text reply. She smiled. But something was missing. That's when I realized: AI generation isn't magic. Presence is. A text reply can't hold space. It doesn't listen. It doesn't surprise you. So I scrapped everything and started over ... ... Santa writes back and leaves you a voice message Day 2: Talk to Santa Real-time voice calls with Santa, right from the North Pole Day 3: Find Your Wish A search engine that understands "I want a purple

... adamwathan , the co-founder of @Tailwind CSS , joked on X that his decision to make every button bg-indigo-500 five years ago seems to have caused every AI-generated UI on earth to default to a shade of purple. It's a perfect example of a tiny butterfly effect creating a huge trend. Of course, for this to become a real trend, it has to resonate with people on some level. I think the reason it stuck is that ... ... purple

... When it comes down to hardware my X feed is filled with two types of designs. Retro/nostalgic 2000's hardware that was defined by Gameboy translucent purples, Colorful macs, Sony's beautiful eclectic electronics, and embracing colors that pop like pink, purple