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agustinbarrientos.com

Building interfaces that understand what we want to do

Chrome is building a Decisions API that runs a decision model on your computer, for free and privately.

anthropic.com

The components of agent memory

For Claude to learn from experience, it has to decide what’s worth remembering before it knows what’s next.

shawnsmucker.substack.com

Please use AI

Be sure to use AI when making.

uxdesign.cc

Otherwise you’re just a machine

AI is getting better at design. Designers should too.

seanvoisen.com

What does design system AI readiness mean, anyway?

Maybe it’s less about machine-legible artifacts and more about where humans stay in the loop.

uxdesign.cc

Everyone is building AI agents. Who’s designing the stop button?

Here’s why the hardest design decisions happen where that autonomy ends.

george.mand.is

Tokenizer Mono

A monospace font that highlights LLM tokens as you type. No JavaScript, just OpenType substitution rules and a color table.

longnow.org

Attention is all you need

A report from the future on AI, attention, and the maintenance of civilization

iamnoman.com

Designing a skill

Skills are becoming the apps of the agentic era. What you learn shipping quality software still applies to them.

uxdesign.cc

Building an AI-ready design system library

Why my design system starts in code, and how I build, check and maintain the Figma library.

seldo.com

How to hire junior engineers in the age of AI

Junior developer hiring has collapsed because nobody knows how to interview for the new AI-assisted job.

bit.ly

The AI Notepad for back-to-back meetingsSponsored

Notes, actions and memory. Without a meeting bot. Give it a try during your next meeting.

doc.cc

Who owns the doubt?

Nobody arrives at their first design job doubting their first idea; they defend it, usually too loudly.

noemamag.com

Now entering: The era of bleh

Airbrain, AI and the homogenization of knowledge work.

benji.org

Stageshow

Create better faux UI with agents. Avoid results often look sloppy and heavy-handed.

texttocad.dev

Text-to-cad

Design physical products with AI. Free, open-source CAD for AI agents like Codex and Claude Code.

the-brandidentity.com

Microsoft’s identity for Copilot positions it as a tool for work

Redefining Copilot via dynamic motion geometry, translating software logic into enterprise productivity.

karlkoch.me

On giving people an undo button in AI products

Designing AI edits people can inspect, accept and recover from without losing the work they wanted to keep.

uxdesign.cc

Nobody asked for the sparkle button

Products ship with the same AI panel; people hunt for the off switch, and spend has outrun returns. Build features with AI, not AI features.

algoroxyolo.github.io

Knowing how is not knowing what

What RL environments need to supply: organizational context, domain rules and connected information.