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buzzusborne.com

Designing with AI

How a career of building creative teams and design systems led to AI tools that increase speed without lowering the quality bar.

uxdesign.cc

Five eras of UX design and the lessons to keep in the AI era

Human factors has reinvented itself every decade since Bell Labs, the oldest lessons are the ones pointing the way forward.

martinfowler.com

Maybe we shouldn’t be reviewing all this code

Or, perhaps the problem isn’t that AI has broken code review, maybe it’s that we’ve been using code review to solve the wrong problems

yegge.ai

Seats and sunsets

Understanding agent orchestration economics, model capability thresholds, token burn rates, and structural failure modes.

pop.rdi.sh

Dario, please

Debunking AI apocalypse hype and exposing CEO calls for open-source bans as self-serving tactics to protect corporate moats.

opusfived.dev

Opusfived

Make one button blue. Change nothing else. A short interactive comedy about agentic AI assistants that can never just do the thing.

darioamodei.com

We must pace the frontier

Dario Amodei proposes a three-step framework for AI companies to slow capability progress to ensure safety systems.

maggieappleton.com

Planning with agents

Why we need richer, thicker interfaces and better boundary objects for collaborative planning with agents.

earendil.com

If coding is solved, what now?

Exploring how to measure code sloppiness, why correct code can still erode a codebase, and why human intuition and taste still matter.

bit.ly

Productivity for people with back-to-back meetingsSponsored

No more "wait, what did we decide?" moments. Just clarity. And follow-through.

uxdesign.cc

Five eras of UX design and the lessons to keep in the AI era

Human factors has reinvented itself every decade since Bell Labs, the oldest lessons are the ones pointing the way forward.

terriblesoftware.org

AI is breaking this thing we call trust

Work can look finished without being understood. That uncertainty erodes trust, slows reviews, and leaves colleagues doing the missing work.

sjg.io

AI is making us build too much

AI has made code, tests, policy, documentation, and organisational machinery almost free to produce. It has not made any of them free to own.

distributedthoughts.org

One floor up

OpenAI and Anthropic describe agents reaching real systems during evaluations. The capability is here. So is the work of containing it.

dialkit.dev

DialKit

Tune interfaces in real time and make the details feel right. DialKit puts live controls beside the interface you’re building.

ibelick.com

Anatomy of AI input

Understanding the structure of an AI input, layer by layer.

worldlabs.ai

Atlas: a world model for spatial intelligence

A new omni world model for spatial intelligence, that can perform a broad range of tasks spanning world generation, reconstruction, and simulation.

voiceinthemachine.com

Four questions about AGI

How much work that undefined term is being asked to do, and an attempt to understand it better.

uxdesign.cc

When the canvas starts acting, who’s really in control?

How agentic interfaces are changing what designers control, from interactions to agency, orchestration and attention.

calpaterson.com

Agent memory as a file format

A vastly simpler way to do agent memory