The machines are fine. I’m worried about us.
On AI agents, grunt work, and the part of science that isn’t replaceable.
Category: Ai
All CategoriesDesigners finally have a say in the product they design
AI didn’t teach designers to code. It gave them back the decisions that were always theirs.
AI Interaction Atlas
Comprehensive reference for designing AI experiences. 100+ patterns, visual examples, and reusable components.
AI prototyping tools: why control matters as much as speedSponsored
Most AI tools optimize for speed. ProtoPie AI is built for validation. Here’s why that matters for design teams working at a professional level.
The beginning of programming as we’ll know it
Is the human role of “computer programmer” coming to an end? Will the AI bots one day do all the programming for us?
What if AI just makes us work harder?
More multitasking. AI introduced a new rhythm in which workers managed several active threads at once.
The ground is shaking: Why designers must flip the script on AI
Something has shifted in the way the design field operates, and we haven’t yet found the words or identified the exact schema for it.
A mirror test for LLMs
In which we propose a new measure of LLM self-awareness but ultimately decide they fall short.
Your ticket is a prompt
The instinct to break work into atomic tickets was right for human teams. For agents, it reproduces the same fragmentation disease at machine speed.
The first 40 months of the AI era
Accumulated thoughts and ideas about AI since the launch of ChatGPT in November 2022.
Why are executives enamored with AI but ICs aren’t?
Executives have always had to deal with non-determinism, while individual contributors are evaluated by their execution on deterministic tasks.
AI agents could make free software matter again
Free software once mattered deeply, but faded when SaaS made those freedoms feel irrelevant.
AI Coding for Product Designers (New Cohort)Sponsored
Start building with intention and control. Learn the architecture and systems required to build and ship functional products with AI.
Take my job, AI!
The idea of AI replacing product designers isn’t scaring me. It’s actually having the opposite effect: I’m embracing it.
So where are all the AI apps?
If AI users are becoming 10x more productive, skeptics might reasonably ask: where are all the apps?
There are only two paths left for software
Grow 10% or earn 40%, no middle path is left.
What 81,000 people want from AI
How they use AI, what they dream it could make possible, and what they fear it might do.
AI and the Rosetta Stone
How AI turns translation into runtime and why preserving intent between human ambiguity and machine precision is now the real craft.