“The first casualty won’t be design. It’s the deliverable.” Tommy Geoco backs it with numbers: a recent State of Prototyping survey of 1,478 design engineers finds 80.9% spending most of their week vibe coding, and 59% having shipped their own internal tool in the last six months. ​“The design function isn’t being eliminated. It’s absorbing engineering.”

Tommy Geoco perfectly summarized the debate between Karri Saarinen from Linear and Ryo Lu from Cursor.

I’ve been waiting for this video and kept thinking about it long after watching. To kick off his new series This is taste, Tommy Geoco flew to Kalamazoo, MI, to spend two days with Ridd. His Dive Club interviews show where the puck is going to be for the design industry and have been my most recommended resource for a long time. Tommy did a great job showing the actual person behind the online persona through his environment, family, motivation, and process of building the Inflight and Dive Club. Can’t wait for the future episodes of the series!

Tommy Geoco shows his workflow for building Lorelight with Figma and Claude Code.

Detach is the premier after-party organized by Jesse Showalter, Tommy Geoco, Femke van Schoonhoven, and Soren Iverson on Wednesday, May 7 where the design community comes together to unwind, connect, and celebrate.

What a fun design challenge! Tommy Geoco and Hunter Hammonds came up with a prompt to design a landing page for an AI robotics company and provided live commentary, while Brett from Designjoy built a website in Framer and Henrik built another in Lovable, all in just 45 minutes.