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medium.com

What Claude Design actually changes for designers

The handoff problem is finally getting solved—and it’s happening faster than most of us expected.

chrbutler.com

Red-lining AI

Blanket AI bans mistake the tool for the problem, Thoughtful integration of automation, ethics, and creative work offers a better path forward.

marginalia.nu

AI makes you boring

Prompting an AI model is not articulating an idea. You get the output, but in terms of ideation the output is discardable.

daverupert.com

When moving fast, talking is the first thing to break

Talking takes time. Consensus is expensive and slow. When speed is the priority, there’s no incentive to improve or invest in the shared system.

maggieappleton.com

One developer, two dozen agents, zero alignment

Why we need collaborative AI engineering.

acolorbright.com

Aesthetics of AI

Observations on the visual identities of standout AI brands and the trends shaping them.

robonomics.substack.com

Org design in the age of AI

Everyone is adding AI to their workflows. Almost no one is rethinking why the workflow is shaped that way in the first place.

theyseeyourphotos.com

They see your photos

Upload a photo to find out how much an AI sees. Spoiler alert: more than you think.

nngroup.com

Handmade designs: the new trust signal

In an era of AI-generated-everything, AI-fatigued users want designs that look like they were made by a person.

factory.ai

How missions work

Agent sessions work well for focused tasks, but most real projects are too broad and complex for a single context window.

perevillega.com

Building agent memory that survives between sessions

Two practical approaches to the same insight: memory is a design problem, not a tooling problem.

anildash.com

Actually, people love to work hard

When effort stems from purpose, agency, and trust, rather than oversight.

mitchellh.com

The building block economy

How "building blocks" thrive by letting AI and niche users handle the customization.

greaterwrong.com

My picture of the present in AI

A scenario forecast, but for the present (which is already uncertain) rather than the future.

siddhantkhare.com

AI fatigue is real and nobody talks about it

You’re using AI to be more productive. So why are you more exhausted than ever? The paradox every engineer needs to confront.

youtube.com

Bernie vs. Claude

Speaking to Anthropic’s AI agent Claude about AI collecting massive amounts of personal data and how that violates our privacy rights.

chrbutler.com

Craft is untouchable

AI doesn’t threaten craft—the temptation to skip iteration does.

ergosphere.blog

The machines are fine. I’m worried about us.

On AI agents, grunt work, and the part of science that isn’t replaceable.

uxdesign.cc

Designers finally have a say in the product they design

AI didn’t teach designers to code. It gave them back the decisions that were always theirs.

ai-interaction.com

AI Interaction Atlas

Comprehensive reference for designing AI experiences. 100+ patterns, visual examples, and reusable components.