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mattrothenberg.com

Pure UI in the Agentic Era

I stopped thinking of UI as event handlers that change the DOM and started thinking of it as a snapshot of data at a point in time.

prompt-motion.com

Prompt Motion

A collection of motion videos made with Claude Opus 5.5, with the prompts and skills behind them.

uxdesign.cc

What the AI era owes you

No one is going to save your career from AI.

skills.wheresryan.sh

Anatomy

A Claude skill that draws an idea as the real machine that does it: a live isometric figure you can turn, press and read.

quantamagazine.org

Is AI the end of math as we know it?

Mathematicians are facing the sudden shift with grief, anger, and a desperate search for fresh ideas.

bit.ly

Put your meetings to workSponsored

Meetings aren’t the problem. The challenge is everything that comes after them. Download Granola for free and use it in your next meeting.

constitution.design

The designer’s constitution

A model for rethinking what makes a designer in the age of AI.

armstr.ng

Worth building

What changes when a tool doesn’t have to pay for itself.

jovo.design

AI invasive design

We can all agree ”AI native“ is a little bit bullshit, but does it have to be so dystopian?

liao.gg

Agents don’t need memory. They need documentation.

Why agents need project documentation instead of retrieval from old conversations.

agentic.littleplains.com

Agentic systems are the future of brands

Agentic Brand Systems, a Little Plains research note.

wattenberger.com

Chat is AI’s command line

AI should make us more capable—not just give us someone more capable to talk to.

doc.cc

Prompting as self-portrait

AI installed a distorted mirror where the blank page used to be.

uxdesign.cc

Is Meta’s new AI agent easier to trust because it’s cute?

Muse comes with an avatar you design and a keyring gadget. Few people would hand Meta their passwords, yet it topped the US App Store.

lukew.com

Many agents, many views

You manage agents, they manage more agents, and those agents manage even more agents.

nytimes.com

In defense of the detour

On craft, A.I. and what gets lost when we skip the slow part.

bit.ly

Save time with Wispr Flow (4x faster than typing)Sponsored

The voice-to-text AI that turns speech into clear, polished writing in every app.

uxdesign.cc

How to de-slopify your designs

Tips for anyone who vibecodes.

hitesh.in

Google has the best AI money can buy. Its products still feel broken.

Google’s AI-era products keep breaking an old trust contract with users, and the model isn’t the reason.

brookslybrand.com

Do frameworks matter anymore?

How abstractions constrain AI agents, helping engineering teams evaluate long-term web architecture choices.