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thomwolf.substack.com

What jobs are made of

Judgment, agency, and the limits of AI benchmarks.

uxdesign.cc

A product manager’s 48 reflections on 2025

The year when AI stopped feeling like just a tool and started to feel more like a mirror.

lucumr.pocoo.org

A year of vibes

A personal recap of 2025 and a year of a new style of engineering.

thealgorithmicbridge.com

The shape of artificial intelligence

They say the shape of things only becomes legible at a distance.

epochai.substack.com

The changing drivers of LLM adoption

Public data as well as our original polling suggest LLM adoption is roughly on trend, but the underlying drivers are shifting.

figma.com

Hard problems are still hard

Figma designer–turned–product manager Nikolas Klein worked on building prototyping tools for seven years. Then AI changed the game.

varchive.ai

V-archive

Varchive is a showcase of AI-assisted builds, inspiration, and how-tos. Itself assisted by AI.

ivan.codes

The art of vibe design

The distance between "I want this" and "this exists" was measured in weeks, budgets, and expertise you didn't have.

figma.com

Prototypes are the new PRDs

Inside Figma Make, product managers are pressure-testing assumptions early, building momentum, and rallying teams around something tangible.

nngroup.com

Explainable AI in chat interfaces

Explanation text in AI chat interfaces is intended to help users understand AI outputs, but current practices fall short of that goal.

msuiche.com

When machines pay machines

The internet was built with a missing piece. Three decades later, that vision is finally materializing.

uxdesign.cc

So your AI wants a personality

Emerging personality patterns that drive differentiation in AI products.

lethain.com

Facilitating AI adoption at Imprint

A side-quest for every engineering leader in the current era.

sh-reya.com

On the consumption of AI-generated content at scale

“I might be going insane because half of what I read now sounds like ChatGPT.”

terriblesoftware.org

AI can write your code; It can’t do your job

The companies building AI are spending billions to acquire engineers, not replace them. Here’s why your job is safer than you think.

designprompts.dev

AI-powered design style explorer

Explore 31+ design styles rendered from the same data. Get AI-ready prompts to recreate any aesthetic in your own projects.

nngroup.com

Prompt to design interfaces

Create better AI-prototyping designs by using precise visual keywords, references, analysis, as well as mock data and code snippets.

replaceyourboss.ai

AI CEO

Algorithmic thought leadership, with instant decisions, and zero ego. Replace your boss before they replace you.

figma.com

What does it mean to be a designer in the age of AI?

As workflows shift what happens to job titles—and the ways of working and sense of identity that comes with them?

aeon.co

Generative AI has access to a small slice of human knowledge

Huge swathes of human knowledge are missing from the internet. By definition, generative AI is shockingly ignorant too.