The AI layoff trap
Interactive simulation: competitive firms over-automate because each captures the full cost saving but only 1/N of the demand destruction.
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All CategoriesThe architecture of focus
Most companies default to a schedule designed for managers that systematically destroys the cognitive capacity for the work they actually need.
Vibe Coder vs Software Engineer
Vibe coding is useful for discovery, but software engineering starts when generated code has to be reviewed, owned, operated, and safely changed.
The four design jobs AI created (so far)
“AI design” is one label but has forked into four different types of work.
Soleio — The geometry of luck
The closing talk from Tokyo Design Forum 2026. The first piece in The Forum Library.
AI job grief
AI-driven displacement is producing an emotional category that most closely resembles grief, and the institutions causing it have no language for it.
Fast is better than slow
About 10 years ago, I realized all the best programmers I had worked with had something in common: they were fast.
Don’t outsource the learning
Right now, it’s too easy to let AI write the code while you skip the learning.
On being a designer in the most interesting, exhausting moment of our careers
Prioritizing mental clarity over speed to maintain high craft standards.
Do I belong in tech anymore?
On quitting, the spread of AI, and the loss of an ideal.
Why productivity needs to be redefined
We’ll need to redefine what productivity means in the context of humans. If we don’t, we’re all kind of screwed, and yes, AI will take our jobs away.
Early signals of AI impact
462+ sources, one pattern: AI adoption is accelerating, productivity is climbing, and jobs are changing faster than they’re disappearing.
There are only four skills: design, technical, management and physical
What determines whether someone is capable of relatively quickly acquiring expert-level performance in other domains?
Good taste the only real moat left
The real edge comes from pairing judgment with context, stakes, and the willingness to build.
Actually, people love to work hard
When effort stems from purpose, agency, and trust, rather than oversight.
Should designers "code"?
There’s a question that never goes away in design: should designers code?
AI fatigue is real and nobody talks about it
You’re using AI to be more productive. So why are you more exhausted than ever? The paradox every engineer needs to confront.
The machines are fine. I’m worried about us.
On AI agents, grunt work, and the part of science that isn’t replaceable.
The design engineer symptom: what a rising job title reveals
Trying to define Design Engineering today, and why the confusion around it turned out to matter.