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chrisloy.dev

The rise of industrial software

AI coding is making available paths of production which are cheaper, faster, and increasingly disconnected from the expertise of humans.

uxdesign.cc

A sharp tool can still ruin the cut

When AI answers before you understand.

world.hey.com

Back to the starting line

Programming with AI is still in its infancy, and yet it has already redefined what programming will be about in the immediate future.

youtube.com

Why are people starting to sound like ChatGPT?

Algorithms and AI don't just show us reality — they warp it in ways that benefit platforms built to exploit people for profit.

uxdesign.cc

What I learned from Don Norman

Reflections on the 2025 DNDA Summit and Don Norman’s vision for the next era of design, community, and artificiality.

balajmarius.com

Vibe coding a bookshelf with Claude Code

A side project that went viral on Hacker News recently.

medium.com

The designer’s playbook for AI products

Research, case studies, and experiments to figure out what actually works when it comes to AI.

thomwolf.substack.com

What jobs are made of

Judgment, agency, and the limits of AI benchmarks.

uxdesign.cc

A product manager’s 48 reflections on 2025

The year when AI stopped feeling like just a tool and started to feel more like a mirror.

lucumr.pocoo.org

A year of vibes

A personal recap of 2025 and a year of a new style of engineering.

thealgorithmicbridge.com

The shape of artificial intelligence

They say the shape of things only becomes legible at a distance.

epochai.substack.com

The changing drivers of LLM adoption

Public data as well as our original polling suggest LLM adoption is roughly on trend, but the underlying drivers are shifting.

figma.com

Hard problems are still hard

Figma designer–turned–product manager Nikolas Klein worked on building prototyping tools for seven years. Then AI changed the game.

varchive.ai

V-archive

Varchive is a showcase of AI-assisted builds, inspiration, and how-tos. Itself assisted by AI.

ivan.codes

The art of vibe design

The distance between "I want this" and "this exists" was measured in weeks, budgets, and expertise you didn't have.

figma.com

Prototypes are the new PRDs

Inside Figma Make, product managers are pressure-testing assumptions early, building momentum, and rallying teams around something tangible.

nngroup.com

Explainable AI in chat interfaces

Explanation text in AI chat interfaces is intended to help users understand AI outputs, but current practices fall short of that goal.

msuiche.com

When machines pay machines

The internet was built with a missing piece. Three decades later, that vision is finally materializing.

uxdesign.cc

So your AI wants a personality

Emerging personality patterns that drive differentiation in AI products.

lethain.com

Facilitating AI adoption at Imprint

A side-quest for every engineering leader in the current era.