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linear.app

Output isn’t design

The assumption behind AI design tools is very clear: that design is the act of producing.

frontendmasters.com

AI-generated UI is inaccessible by default

It doesn’t mean you can’t get AI to help with accessible code, you’ve just got to know what you’re doing.

greaterwrong.com

The world can’t keep up with AI Labs

Rapid AI scaling outpaces our ability to build safety guardrails.

gbbns.co

The accessibility problem isn’t design. It’s engineering.

Full-stack hiring, AI-generated code with no context, and a compliance-first mentality have combined to create a crisis hiding in plain sight.

warman.life

The moat or the commons

American capital financed AI on the assumption it would be the next great monopoly.

ky.fyi

Do I belong in tech anymore?

On quitting, the spread of AI, and the loss of an ideal.

github.com

A11Y.md

A context system for building accessible software by default—for developers and AI, with enforceable rules aligned to WCAG.

blog.pragmaticengineer.com

Tokenmaxxing as a weird new trend

Devs are purposefully burning tokens (and money!) to inflate their AI usage and hit AI usage metrics which they treat as targets.

crixu.blog

AI reads my meetings. I take more notes than ever.

Discover why combining AI meeting tools with handwritten notes enhances your insights.

chriscoyier.net

AI & alignment

Raw coding speed isn’t the bottleneck. Alignment is the bottleneck. That seems to be a zeitgeist-y theme lately.

jonnyburch.com

I love AI, but it still can’t design for shit

Without a critical human eye, AI produces slop. The quality bar is yours to maintain.

sidjha.com

Why productivity needs to be redefined

We’ll need to redefine what productivity means in the context of humans. If we don’t, we’re all kind of screwed, and yes, AI will take our jobs away.

jobsdata.ai

Early signals of AI impact

462+ sources, one pattern: AI adoption is accelerating, productivity is climbing, and jobs are changing faster than they’re disappearing.

bradfrost.com

Mouth Coding

Talking websites into existence.

interconnected.org

Headless everything for personal AI

Headless services are quicker and more dependable for the personal AIs than having them click round a GUI with a bot-controlled mouse.

developers.openai.com

GPT image gen prompting guide

Prompting patterns, best practices, and example prompts drawn from real production use cases for gpt-image-2.

tante.cc

AI as a fascist artifact

Our world is built around technological infrastructures that define what we see, who we can talk to and what information gets presented to us.

daverupert.com

I don’t want a screenshot of your Claude conversation

The number of screenshots of Claude conversations is going up in my life and it’s beginning to have an impact on my general mood.

samhenri.gold

Thoughts and feelings around Claude Design

The beast is hairy enough that entire design roles now specialize in wrangling the system itself.

antmurphy.me

The AI chasm

Why most companies are still early in the AI journey—and what product leaders should focus on instead.