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antirez.com

Don’t fall into the anti-AI hype

It does not matter if AI companies will not be able to get their money back and the stock market will crash.

rlancemartin.github.io

Agent design patterns

Effective agent design largely boils down to context management.

bit.ly

Vibe Coding Camp: build real products with AISponsored

A hands-on program for designers and PMs who want to actually build—using Cursor, Supabase, Vercel, and AI-first workflows.

nngroup.com

Humanizing AI is a trap

LLMs humanize by design. Adding personality/emotion amplifies risk. Design real tools, not fake friends.

draganbabic.com

Humans "in the loop"

As soon as people are out of the trenches of their work, their motivation for the quality of said work deteriorates.

tool-ui.com

Tool UI

Beautiful UI components for AI tool calls.

mikefisher.substack.com

More efficiency, more demand

The future of software engineers and data scientists is bright.

aidesignfieldguide.com

AI Design Field Guide

Learn techniques from the designers behind OpenAI, Anthropic, Figma, Notion & more.

tomtunguz.com

The done list

How the disappearing middle of work changes everything about planning & productivity.

davekiss.com

Ideas are cheap, execution is cheaper

In a world where ideas are cheap and software is cheaper, what truly matters now?

chrisloy.dev

The rise of industrial software

AI coding is making available paths of production which are cheaper, faster, and increasingly disconnected from the expertise of humans.

uxdesign.cc

A sharp tool can still ruin the cut

When AI answers before you understand.

world.hey.com

Back to the starting line

Programming with AI is still in its infancy, and yet it has already redefined what programming will be about in the immediate future.

youtube.com

Why are people starting to sound like ChatGPT?

Algorithms and AI don't just show us reality — they warp it in ways that benefit platforms built to exploit people for profit.

uxdesign.cc

What I learned from Don Norman

Reflections on the 2025 DNDA Summit and Don Norman’s vision for the next era of design, community, and artificiality.

balajmarius.com

Vibe coding a bookshelf with Claude Code

A side project that went viral on Hacker News recently.

medium.com

The designer’s playbook for AI products

Research, case studies, and experiments to figure out what actually works when it comes to AI.

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.