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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?

tastelab.xyz

Taste: design DNA for AI agents

Abductive reasoning for design. Read any website’s taste: tokens + the decisions behind them. A Claude Code skill.

ursb.me

After AI takes everything

How software commoditization shifts user value from technical production to individual curation.

addyosmani.com

The new software lifecycle

How shifting engineering to intent management accelerates feature deployment.

mcsweeneys.net

AI economics for dummies

A few examples to help the average layperson understand the business side of AI.

aaron-gustafson.com

Can your AI pass the accessibility test?

How large language models handle web accessibility standards. Or don't.

matthewbutterick.com

Extinction-level capitalism

How Big AI need us more than we need them.

terriblesoftware.org

You got faster. Your company didn’t.

AI made you faster. But you’re not more productive; you’re outsourcing the slow part to everyone else.

ailayoffs.rajnandan.com

The AI layoff trap

Interactive simulation: competitive firms over-automate because each captures the full cost saving but only 1/N of the demand destruction.

blog.stdlib.io

What we’re no longer seeing: AI and the invisible newcomer in open source

How AI is absorbing the visible friction that open-source communities have always relied on to see—and welcome—newcomers.

kasperjunge.com

Everyone got excited they can suddenly code, and completely missed the point

Coding agents made software cheap to build. That just exposed the bottleneck that was always there: deciding what to build.

maeda.pm

For most of my career I designed the cockpit

The functional alignment between AI capabilities and human intent.

ui-skills.com

UI skills for design engineers

Discover curated UI Skills for design engineers, including accessibility, motion, frontend craft, and interface quality guides.

nngroup.com

The four design jobs AI created (so far)

“AI design” is one label but has forked into four different types of work.

github.blog

Building a general-purpose accessibility agent

The experimental general-purpose accessibility agent that GitHub is piloting.