It was never easy to predict the future, but at the moment it feels near impossible.

Most of what we call ‘design’ is groping around a dark room looking for a black cat.

Software used to be made like a painting, one layer at a time. With agents, it’s closer to sculpture, and the hard part is seeing what to keep.

Be sure to use AI when making.

Exploring the hidden cost of producing good, fast and cheap creative work.

Airbrain, AI and the homogenization of knowledge work.

Code is cheap now. What's still expensive is deciding what to build and how it should feel. I think that's the part the factory is missing.

People look at the roadmap and their commitments, and success is about how much of those they actually shipped.

Code review was always meant as a verification step: does the code produce the outcome we want?

What the 2026 numbers say about privacy and control, and guesses for where the privacy business goes next.

Designers are skipping steps of the process in a rush for faster outputs. But the contest that really matters is stakeholder alignment.

Established products have a problem. They assume they’re the center of someone’s universe, and everything should feed through them.

If you haven’t accepted that these things are smarter than you, even in your own domain of expertise, I’m sorry.

Lessons from four years of building AI products at PostHog.

Mood: Wanting to throw a $30,000 prototype into a lake.

If you're reading this, I regret to inform you that I finally published an update to my personal site. I guess I made it.

Over the course of a year, I went from having a planned future to worrying about applying for disability.

We can all agree ”AI native“ is a little bit bullshit, but does it have to be so dystopian?

There’s that person in your job who is the one people call for all kinds of tasks that only “they can do.”

I am in a very weird place right now when it comes to design.