 | Paul Bakaus created jQuery UI — code that's reportedly still running on about 6% of the internet.
He sold a game-engine startup to Zynga, spent close to a decade at Google, and is now a solo founder backed by a16z building Impeccable, an open-source design skill meant to stop AI coding agents from producing "slop."
His actual point in this clip isn't about AI capability.
It's about output density.
Most AI-agent code is too much code. Most AI-written articles run too long. Most AI-generated design is too cluttered or too verbose.
He says the scarce human skill right now isn't generating anything — it's judgment: knowing exactly what to remove.
He even admits he had to rewrite his own product-announcement draft from scratch after an AI first pass.
His closing line: design is an iterative process, and it has to carry a human point of view.
No tool — not code, not design, not writing — one-shots that yet.
If you're shipping with AI agents and everything reads "technically fine" but somehow generic, this is the actual diagnosis.
It's not a tooling gap. It's an editing gap.
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Predictive technology: computational social science