Dive Club 🤿 Meng To - How to build your ideas with AI
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Nov 6, 2024 
Meng To, a designer and educator with a decade of experience teaching coding, discusses his journey from designer to tech builder. He shares insights on creating Dreamcut, an AI-powered video editor, emphasizing practical coding skills for designers. Meng reveals his favored AI tools like Claude and Cursor and details how to kickstart projects with effective prompts. The conversation dives into the balance of design and coding, the ease of using AI in the creative process, and the evolving landscape of tools that empower designers today.
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AI Coding: Power and Persistence
- AI coding tools are powerful but require persistence for good results.
- Coding with AI excels in specific areas like writing and is becoming increasingly potent for design and development.
Build for Your Needs
- Build products that solve your problems and align with your daily use.
- This approach creates meaningful, market-fit products and helps stand out.
Skipping Figma
- Meng To skipped Figma for Dreamcut, finding AI's functional design sufficient.
- He views AI as a technical co-founder, focusing on function over aesthetics initially.