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alecscollon.com

I think I have LLM burnout

I didn’t expect to get so tired of reading LLM output.

getdesign.md

Getdesign.md

Browse independent design system analyses from popular websites. Drop one into your project as design reference for your coding agent.

soullessmusic.com

Soulless Music

A list of AI artists hiding on Spotify and stealing from real artists. An open source project.

seldo.com

AI has torched the market for junior programmers

Junior programming roles are getting destroyed by AI. Meanwhile, millions of non-developers are shipping real software without the job title.

ileivoivm.github.io

InkField Gallery

A gallery of InkField JSON recordings — humans and agents learning from each other.

tomtunguz.com

Most AI work can wait

Prioritize routing over model choice. Most AI work runs on cheap local models.

uxdesign.cc

Never mind the prompts, here’s the thinking

A year rebuilding my studio’s entire design process around AI. It didn’t make us faster, and that’s exactly why it worked.

thinkroom.kieranklaassen.com

Closing the verification loop

How a branch proves itself ready: browser reality, persona eyes, and fixes that carry their own evidence.

anthropic.com

A global workspace in language models

Interpretability research on Claude’s internal thoughts.

bambamramfan.github.io

The AI Compass

15 questions. Two axes. Which of 30 AI archetypes are you?

geoffreylitt.com

Understanding is the new bottleneck

Agents can write code faster than we can absorb it. Here are some techniques for doing that efficiently.

eieio.games

Legibility of effort

LLMs have broken legibility of effort - our ability to tell, at a glance, whether something took a human real work. What happens next?

uxdesign.cc

39 principles for designing human-AI interaction

An applied framework for designing AI interfaces that support appropriate reliance, user control, transparency, and responsible autonomy.

dbreunig.com

The problem is prompt debt

Plain-English prompts make prototyping effortless but specify system behavior poorly. The technical debt builds slowly until apps stall.

airesistlist.org

The AI Resist List

A living directory of ways communities resist AI harms—and build alternatives worth fighting for.

blog.murphytrueman.com

Your design system has a new author

Authored change has outpaced the review model, and that breaks more than it looks.

gerireid.com

Your documentation is still in your Mum’s filing cabinet

It’s kind of wild that we’re still organising knowledge like it’s sitting in a 1970s filing cabinet. People and AI don’t think in folders.

emilycampbell.co

The layers of AI experience

Why designers must move beyond interfaces to shape the systems, constraints, and behaviors beneath them.

lukew.com

The AI steering layer

An intentional steering layer can not only help but is increasingly needed in software today.

ericwbailey.website

The case for vibe coding when all your coworkers are also vibe coding

Am I letting my own personal beliefs and biases affect the outcome I ultimately want?