Design Director @ Superhuman // Co-creator of Hello Weather. Ex-Figma, Twitter, and some other stuff. Puns always intended. he/him
🌐 https://jonas.do
🌞 @helloweather.com
Jonas Downey
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I'm writing a post on what's hard about working in tech right now. (The list is long.)
What are you struggling with the most?
Wrote a little reflection on the current (highly chaotic) state of software design:
jonas.do/writing/2026-04-22-d...
One of my favorite Internet pastimes is clicking NO on passive aggressive promotional upsells, to intentionally mess up the metrics for whatever dumb psychological conversion tricks the product team is trying to pull
Trying to work with Al chatbots is basically the same as being a horrible reply guy:
"Actually, you're wrong"
"That's a bad take"
"Is this even true? What are your sources?"
"This writing makes no sense"
"Think harder"
New post: a reckoning on the contradictions of working in tech, when AI is taking over everything.
jonas.do/writing/2026...
I’m writing this post because I want to say out loud what a lot of people are feeling. Working in tech during the AI transition is tough as hell.
The MacBook Neo is such an interesting machine that it coaxed a thousand-word-essay out of me: samhenri.gold/blog/2026031...
Jonas Downey
Jonas Downey
Jonas Downey
words I would be ok with never hearing again
agentic
tokenmaxxing
human in the loop
generative
anything involving a claw
meatspace
you're absolutely right —
Green day
sheesh
oh hey, I'm in the New Yorker chatting about weather apps
www.newyorker.com/culture/infi...
(I hope you don't hate @helloweather.com though)
