The great transition
A mental model for thinking about all the big changes that are happening as a single transition.
A mental model for thinking about all the big changes that are happening as a single transition.
Removing the context-gathering bottleneck for most support work.
LLMs drift, fabricate tokens, and start every session from scratch. Here’s how to feed your design system to AI coding agents so they stop guessing.
Systematic analysis of how AI systems make decisions — from product recommendations to developer tool choices.
Before writing code, dialog with progressive levels of design alignment.
How pressure to deliver fast erodes the deep thinking necessary for truly functional products.
Anthropic’s new Academy transitions from tool-specific tutorials to a mental model of AI fluency.
Four categories of task that you should consider before turning to AI.
Our current neoliberal version of capitalism has built a rent-extraction layer on top of human limitations that agents don't have.
Simply throwing a massive spec at an AI agent doesn’t work—context window limits and the model’s “attention budget” get in the way.
AI is not going to disappear from your life. But the bubble is starting to burst.
Apparently writing code is cheap now. So since the barrier to producing code is gone, the intent behind the code is the most important bit.
AI didn’t create the craft crisis in design—it exposed the technical literacy gap that’s been eroding strategic influence for over a decade.
AI agents didn’t make the SDLC faster. They killed it. All that’s left is context.
Every company building an AI assistant is also building hardware that listens and watches 24/7. Local on-device inference is the only way out.
Things haven’t settled, the ground is still moving, and sitting with uncertainty might be the best position right now.
How are brands using AI? Obello discussed with 100+ design teams and found 3 major trends shaping AI design’s future. Download the report.
The value of human thinking is going down. The value of human attention is going up. Those two facts are pointing in very different directions.