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vandelaydesign.com

Why AI-generated UX still feels off

Human skills in anticipatory design and user flows are crucial to combat the ‘uncanny valley’ of AI UX.

passo.uno

New habits for tech writers in the age of LLMs

Any LLM can put together plausible docs with some context and a simple prompt.

buzzusborne.com

Designing AI experiences people actually use

AI doesn’t just add intelligence — it redistributes it. Here’s how that shift can make or break a product.

seldo.com

Do AI-enabled companies need fewer people?

AI-native startups are doing more with less — 40% smaller teams, 6x higher revenue per employee — and the data confirms it’s not just hype.

sequoiacap.com

Services: the new software

The next $1T company will be a software company masquerading as a services firm.

conor.fyi

Accessibility and AI agents

Accessibility was designed for humans, but the surface it exposes in your apps can benefit your agents and save you money — if you populate it.

bit.ly

ai.to.design: Prompt → Editable FigmaSponsored

Generate editable Figma designs from AI — GPT, Claude, Gemini, you name it — without leaving Figma. Real layers. Real auto-layout. Not a screenshot.

anthropic.com

Labor market impacts of AI

Report by Anthropic reveals how AI has been narrowing the "front door" for new talent.

blog.raed.dev

Agentic workflows are not conversations

The chat interface is fine for users. The flat message model behind it is a bad fit for agentic systems. Here’s what it erases.

danielmiessler.com

The great transition

A mental model for thinking about all the big changes that are happening as a single transition.

cursor.com

How technical support at Cursor uses Cursor

Removing the context-gathering bottleneck for most support work.

dropleaf.app

AI Taxonomy

When someone says "AI", ask: "Which category?" Force specificity.

hvpandya.com

Expose your design system to LLMs

LLMs drift, fabricate tokens, and start every session from scratch. Here’s how to feed your design system to AI coding agents so they stop guessing.

amplifying.ai

What Claude Code actually chooses

Systematic analysis of how AI systems make decisions — from product recommendations to developer tool choices.

martinfowler.com

Design-first collaboration

Before writing code, dialog with progressive levels of design alignment.

rosipov.com

Are AI productivity gains fueled by delivery pressure?

How pressure to deliver fast erodes the deep thinking necessary for truly functional products.

anthropic.skilljar.com

Anthropic courses

Anthropic’s new Academy transitions from tool-specific tutorials to a mental model of AI fluency.

joshbrake.substack.com

The prompt you’re missing

Four categories of task that you should consider before turning to AI.

thoughtshrapnel.com

Agentic commerce is a catastrophe for brands who rely on friction

Our current neoliberal version of capitalism has built a rent-extraction layer on top of human limitations that agents don't have.

oreilly.com

How to write a good spec for AI Agents

Simply throwing a massive spec at an AI agent doesn’t work—context window limits and the model’s “attention budget” get in the way.