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hidde.blog

Who wins when we filter the open web through an opaque system?

When people stop visiting websites directly, they're filtering content through an opaque system.

developers.openai.com

Building an AI-native engineering team

How coding agents speed up the software development lifecycle—a guide by OpenAI.

philippdubach.com

Is AI really eating the world?

The range of outcomes spans from “just more software” to a single unified intelligence that handles everything.

allthingsdistributed.com

Tech predictions for 2026 and beyond

In the coming year, we will begin the transition into a new era of AI in the human loop, not the other way around.

eleganthack.com

UX is your moat (and you’re ignoring it)

AI companies act like their next model release will make users switch. They announce benchmark improvements like they’re declaring victory.

chrbutler.com

What AI is really for

Best case: we’re in a bubble. Worst case: the people profiting most know exactly what they’re doing.

zehfernandes.com

The folded world

That is the heartbeat of contemporary AI. The models are creating meaning, yet their pathways remain opaque.

scatterarrow.com

All your coworkers are probabilistic too

LLMs, humans and the old tricks that still work.

android-dreams.ai

Android dreams

A prediction essay for the next 20 years of intelligent robotics.

chrisloy.dev

The AI coding trap

Software development is fundamentally a practice of problem-solving, and so, most of the work is done in your head.

doc.cc

To grow, we must forget… but now AI remembers everything

AI’s infinite memory could endanger how we think, grow, and imagine. And we can do something about it.

uxdesign.cc

Bridging product design and AI thinking

The shift in product design with the advent of AI and a potential generative experiential future.

claude.com

Claude use cases

Practical examples across research, writing, coding, analysis, and everyday tasks on how to collaborate with Claude AI.

tympanus.net

Building a real game as a designer using AI

A look behind a design-first diabetes education game, built by hand-crafted pixel art and powered by an AI that mostly knew what it was doing.

lukew.com

How design teams are reacting to 10x dev productivity from AI

When software development teams experience huge productivity booms, how do design teams respond?

stratechery.com

The benefits of bubbles

We are in an AI Bubble: the big question is if this bubble will be worth it for the physical infrastructure and coordinated innovation that result?

den.dev

You need to become a full stack person

AI tools are commoditizing single-skill roles. The future belongs to people who can think, build, and ship across the entire stack.

mckinsey.com

The state of AI in 2025

Report by McKinsey on agents, innovation, and transformation—and how companies are in the early stages of capturing value with AI.

nngroup.com

AI prototyping in real design contexts

Good from afar, but far from good.