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dri.es

Software as clay on the wheel

You're shaping the code or text the way a potter shapes clay: push a little, spin the wheel, look, push again.

design.google

Gemini AI Visual Design

How Google designers use gradients, motion, and foundational shapes to build trust and intuition within Gemini.

oreilly.com

AI and the Next Economy

The narrative from the AI labs is dazzling: build AGI, unlock astonishing productivity, and watch GDP surge.

anthropic.com

Claude’s Constitution

Anthropic is an AI safety and research company that’s working to build reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems.

veen.com

On coding agents and the future of design

How Claude Code is showing us what apps may become.

jakub.kr

Using AI as a Design Engineer

Design engineers, a role that's all about craft, thoughtfulness and creativity, should be skeptical of AI. But here's the other side.

staticmade.com

Humanity as differentiator

NRF 2026 wasn’t billed as a “retail & AI” conference, but that’s exactly what it was.

uxdesign.cc

Designers as agent orchestrators

Designers hold the best qualities to get refine AI outputs that’s needed for building successful products.

tante.cc

Software as fast fashion

Clothes have never been cheaper. Same thing is happening with software.

spyglass.org

Hello, computer

With AI and an appetite for new hardware, vocal computing seems primed to take off. For real this time.

intelligence-curse.ai

The Intelligence Curse

This series examines the incoming crisis of human irrelevance and provides a map towards a future where people remain the masters of their destiny.

antirez.com

Don’t fall into the anti-AI hype

It does not matter if AI companies will not be able to get their money back and the stock market will crash.

rlancemartin.github.io

Agent design patterns

Effective agent design largely boils down to context management.

bit.ly

Vibe Coding Camp: build real products with AISponsored

A hands-on program for designers and PMs who want to actually build—using Cursor, Supabase, Vercel, and AI-first workflows.

nngroup.com

Humanizing AI is a trap

LLMs humanize by design. Adding personality/emotion amplifies risk. Design real tools, not fake friends.

draganbabic.com

Humans "in the loop"

As soon as people are out of the trenches of their work, their motivation for the quality of said work deteriorates.

tool-ui.com

Tool UI

Beautiful UI components for AI tool calls.

mikefisher.substack.com

More efficiency, more demand

The future of software engineers and data scientists is bright.

aidesignfieldguide.com

AI Design Field Guide

Learn techniques from the designers behind OpenAI, Anthropic, Figma, Notion & more.

tomtunguz.com

The done list

How the disappearing middle of work changes everything about planning & productivity.