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brookslybrand.com

Do frameworks matter anymore?

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

uxdesign.cc

The lie we keep telling ourselves about regulating AI

The excuse for not regulating AI is that nobody can agree how. The people who built the internet would find that laughable.

libraries.dev

Agent skill: Libraries.dev

Teach your coding agent Border beam, Thinking orbs, Gooey, Voice, Bot avatars, Liquid metal and Image.

chrbutler.com

AI is a boring technology

Is AI as interesting as what it helps you do? I don’t think it is, and I mean that as a compliment.

vgpu.sh

The WebGPU library, designed for agents

Fullscreen shaders, compute pipelines, raw WebGPU interop, and read-only source files compiled directly by this docs app.

aymannadeem.com

Plan mode is dead

Earlier this year, I believed planning was going to become the most important part of building software with AI.

youtube.com

How to scale intent, quality, and artistry with Al

As AI makes it easier to build, how do we keep products from becoming generic “zombie UI”?

bit.ly

Productivity for people with back to back meetingsSponsored

You know that feeling when you leave a meeting and immediately forget half of what you agreed to?

lukew.com

Skip the tools, make the outcomes

The pervasiveness of tools may have implanted the wrong instinct in our heads in a world of AI.

voiceinthemachine.com

The fear of AI

When numbers do not match the fear, and where fear should be aimed.

petdex.dev

Petdex

Open-source animated pets for coding agents. Browse pets, preview their animations, and install one with a single command.

nngroup.com

The 3 roles of context for AI agents

AI-agent power users curate 3 kinds of context: global (across tasks), local (task-specific), and ambient (raw streams like email).

addyosmani.com

Audit your agent files

A practical guide to auditing what your coding agent still needs.

anthropic.com

Scenarios for our economic future

The Anthropic Economics Team models the effects of AI on the economy of 2030.

naturalgeneralintelligence.ai

Natural General Intelligence

The case for a nature model that learns the state and dynamics of the planet itself.

bit.ly

The AI notepad for back-to-back meetingsSponsored

Notes, actions and memory. Without a meeting bot.

buzzusborne.com

Designing with AI

How a career of building creative teams and design systems led to AI tools that increase speed without lowering the quality bar.

uxdesign.cc

Five eras of UX design and the lessons to keep in the AI era

Human factors has reinvented itself every decade since Bell Labs, the oldest lessons are the ones pointing the way forward.

martinfowler.com

Maybe we shouldn’t be reviewing all this code

Or, perhaps the problem isn’t that AI has broken code review, maybe it’s that we’ve been using code review to solve the wrong problems

yegge.ai

Seats and sunsets

Understanding agent orchestration economics, model capability thresholds, token burn rates, and structural failure modes.