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.
Category: Career
All CategoriesFast 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.
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.
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Calculate, visualize, and compare taxes across countries. See how your income is taxed with interactive charts and insights.
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.
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.