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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.

hughhowey.com

The AI bubble is bursting

AI is not going to disappear from your life. But the bubble is starting to burst.

zknill.io

If code is cheap, intent is the currency

Apparently writing code is cheap now. So since the barrier to producing code is gone, the intent behind the code is the most important bit.

doc.cc

Why AI is exposing design’s craft crisis

AI didn’t create the craft crisis in design—it exposed the technical literacy gap that’s been eroding strategic influence for over a decade.

boristane.com

The software development lifecycle is dead

AI agents didn’t make the SDLC faster. They killed it. All that’s left is context.

cianfrani.dev

Designing in English

Components are dead. Use your words.

juno-labs.com

Every company building your AI assistant is now an ad company

Every company building an AI assistant is also building hardware that listens and watches 24/7. Local on-device inference is the only way out.

mynameismartin.co.uk

How I’m dealing with the pressure to adopt AI as a designer

Things haven’t settled, the ground is still moving, and sitting with uncertainty might be the best position right now.

bit.ly

The State of AI Design 2026Sponsored

How are brands using AI? Obello discussed with 100+ design teams and found 3 major trends shaping AI design’s future. Download the report.

elliotbonneville.com

The only moat left is money

The value of human thinking is going down. The value of human attention is going up. Those two facts are pointing in very different directions.