Keenan Payne

Keenan Payne

@keenanpayne.com

Pixel-pushing web designer/developer. Currently at Bolt.new, formerly at Asana, freelancing for 18yr. Always good faith and cultivating good vibes. Be kind ✌️

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Keenan Payne
@keenanpayne.com

Everything you put into the world — thoughts, actions, words, etc. — reflects your perspective and what you perpetuate. For every action there is an equal and opposite reaction. I govern my behavior using this guiding principle.

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Matt Henry 🥄
@matthenry.fyi

The US Web Design System is load-bearing infrastructure for thousands of government websites. It makes it easy for small teams with no resources (i.e. most .gov teams) to make usable, accessible websites that work for everyone. Today, it's as close as it's ever been to being replaced with AI slop.

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dax
@thdxr.com

however you feel about the reading code debate as an exercise you should try talking to the LLM and see if you can get to confidence about the code without directly reading the code

Keenan Payne
@keenanpayne.com

I generally agree with this sentiment. Most of my sadness and unhappiness about the automation of software development comes from my genuine interest and passion for the actual coding — understanding the syntax, writing the code, solving problems, etc. Source: x.com/denbvk/stat...

Keenan Payne
@keenanpayne.com

I not-so-fondly remember the days of debugging websites in IE6, but it was nevertheless a revolutionary web browser

WebDesignMuseum@webdesignmuseum.org

On August 27, 2001, Microsoft released Internet Explorer 6.0. IE 6 was integrated into Windows XP and was also compatible with previous versions of the system down to Windows 98.

Keenan Payne
@keenanpayne.com

The good ol' days... kinda.

WebDesignMuseum@webdesignmuseum.org

On August 19, 2011, Web developers Mark Otto and Jacob Thornton of Twitter began creating the CSS framework Bootstrap in mid-2011. The framework was originally developed to help maintain the HTML/CSS and JavaScript code consistency in Twitter applications.

Keenan Payne
@keenanpayne.com

While I understand the sentiment behind this post, I don't think most people have the necessary skills to build a well-designed, well-written, engaging game. These skills take years to develop, and AI can only help so much, unless you're making copycat games. Source: x.com/NickADobos/...

Keenan Payne
@keenanpayne.com

Instead, what seems most likely to me is that the quality bar for game studios will be much higher across the board. Making an average video game will be easier than ever, so I imagine game studios will focus more on providing unique, high-quality experiences.

Keenan Payne
@keenanpayne.com

This post is also a good example of how folks who enjoy prompting/building are not representative of the broader user base. Just because one enjoys something doesn't mean they want to spend their time building it. Some will, but I imagine most will not.

Keenan Payne
@keenanpayne.com

Dax is on point. If you know what you're doing, you should now be able to use LLMs as a helpful partner in many software engineering workflows (esp web dev ones), and you should be able to explore problem domains to produce better solutions. Source: x.com/thdxr/statu...

Keenan Payne
@keenanpayne.com

I think Grady is on point. We already see models like Kimi K3 disrupting the moat surrounding OpenAI and Anthropic. This is a good thing and will continue with further commoditization and increased competition. Source: x.com/Grady_Booch...

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Monteiro
@monteiro.bsky.social

My brother, who did time for dealing, once lost his shit when he found a joint in my niece’s room. I think about this every time a university who made a deal with OpenAI punishes their students for cheating. Or anytime the NBA, awash in DraftKings money, punishes a player for gambling.

Keenan Payne
@keenanpayne.com

Watching Spotify get roasted after this circle jerk is so satisfying 🤌🏻 If Spotify made software worthy of praise, maybe this discussion would be very different. But they don't. As with most companies, they produce slop. And it's slop that exploits artists. Source: x.com/claudedevs/...

Keenan Payne
@keenanpayne.com

I find the narrative of “coding being solved” pretty disingenuous. It’s clearly a marketing ploy designed to rewrite history, as if all that ever needed to happen to build software was “writing code”, which is obviously not the case. I mean, was “coding solved” when compilers were invented?

Keenan Payne
@keenanpayne.com

Absolutely incredible news! Three cheers to unionization ✊🏻

United Wizards of the Coast - CWA@uwotc-official.bsky.social

Today is a momentous day for the workers of Arena! After months of planning, waiting and organizing, our dream is finally a reality; the votes have been counted, and our union of UWOTC-CWA has been officially elected. From this day forward, we have a union!

Keenan Payne
@keenanpayne.com

When good intentions go awry.

Lea Verou, PhD@lea.verou.me

As @una.im just mentioned in her #cssday talk, the CSS WG recently resolved to insert a ⓘ after EVERY SINGLE INTEREST INVOKER on touchscreens. Here’s a mock of what this would look like for bsky. This is the issue to let the CSS WG know what you think: github.com/w3c/csswg-dr...

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Keenan Payne
@keenanpayne.com

Software creation is undergoing the largest shift I've seen in my career. We're living through it in real time, and many of you are helping shape what comes next. The distance between idea and implementation is collapsing, and people are designing, building, and using software in entirely new ways.

Keenan Payne
@keenanpayne.com

Bolt has been at the forefront of this shift, helping redefine what software creation looks like in the AI age. Having spent nearly two decades building software — and increasingly thinking about how more people can build it themselves — I felt it was the right place to be.

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Keenan Payne
@keenanpayne.com

Now, I spend my time answering bigger questions: ➡️ What do we build? ➡️ How do we provide simple solutions to complex problems? ➡️ What does great software look like when anyone can build it? That so many of these questions remain unanswered is what makes this moment, and my role at Bolt, so exciting

Keenan Payne
@keenanpayne.com

Early in my career, I focused on solving implementation challenges: creating frameworks and libraries that made developers more effective, architecting design systems that improved consistency and velocity, and building content platforms that scaled with growing organizations.