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ingrids.space

What Google Translate can tell us about vibecoding

Turns out the number of jobs for translators and interpreters has actually been increasing.

benholliday.com

Design is care (and sensing carelessness)

Why design is care, and how the experiences we shape and deliver will be defined by how people sense that care in the future.

blog.singleton.io

Coding agents have crossed a chasm

Somewhere in the last few months, something fundamental shifted with autonomous AI coding agents.

invertedpassion.com

Life as a physical process

Everyone has their favorite definition of life. Here's a good one.

charity.wtf

How long it takes to know if a job is right for you

"I took a senior management role at this company six months ago. But it’s just not clicking."

chrbutler.com

The designer’s hierarchy of career needs

Success is subjective. It means many things to many different people.

hvpandya.com

Liquid glass

Thoughts on the UI paradigm shift Apple just introduced with Liquid Glass.

stackdiver.com

The grammar of independence

When machines can generate responses that increasingly resemble thought, thinking for oneself becomes about maintaining our cognitive sovereignty.

blog.glyph.im

I think I’m done thinking about genAI for now

In this particular instance, however, genAI has defeated me. I cannot make it make sense, but I need to stop thinking about it anyway.

thereader.mitpress.mit.edu

Supply chains are us

Every purchase we make ties us to a vast, hidden network of people, machines, and resources — whether we see it or not.

deplet.ing

The copilot delusion

We shared a keyboard, but not a brain. Lord, not even close.

linear.app

Why is quality so rare?

So many things feel unfinished, broken, or forgettable – why?

fly.io

My AI skeptic friends are all nuts

My smartest friends have bananas arguments about LLM coding.

longform.asmartbear.com

More or less

You must select between three pricing strategies, and fully commit to their implications.

endler.dev

Reinvent the wheel

One of the most harmful pieces of advice is to not reinvent the wheel.

steveklabnik.com

I am disappointed in the AI discourse

Why is all of the discussion online around AI so incredibly polarized?

manuelmoreale.com

On browsers, AI, and the web

What in the world did The Browser Company just do?

dcurt.is

Thoughts on thinking

Every time I sit down to do something, I come to the same realization: in the context of AI, what I’m doing is a waste of time.

doc.cc

Consistency

On compounding patterns and the art of divergence.

lethain.com

Stuff I learned at Carta

Will Larson's learnings from being Carta's CTO for the last couple of years.