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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.

mattstromawn.com

Expansion artifacts

AI output gets inflated into blog posts and LinkedIn thoughtspam, software platforms, omnichannel advertising campaigns, and more.

andrewmurphy.io

If you thought the speed of writing code was your problem, you have a problem

AI coding tools are optimising the wrong thing and nobody wants to hear it.

thoughtshrapnel.com

The AI adoption spiral

The journey that people go on with any new tool.

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.