The internet you grew up on isn’t dying. A commercial veneer glued on top of it is. A visual essay about what actually persists.

AI can produce work that looks expert without being expert. The failure arrives in two shapes, and both are reshaping the workplace.

There is no ‘source of truth’ when everything changes at every moment.

The assumption behind AI design tools is very clear: that design is the act of producing.

What happens when a designer stops waiting.

On quitting, the spread of AI, and the loss of an ideal.

Choose the right tool for each project based on its requirements, not past preferences.

The beast is hairy enough that entire design roles now specialize in wrangling the system itself.

AI output gets inflated into blog posts and LinkedIn thoughtspam, software platforms, omnichannel advertising campaigns, and more.

The handoff problem is finally getting solved—and it’s happening faster than most of us expected.

Prompting an AI model is not articulating an idea. You get the output, but in terms of ideation the output is discardable.

Talking takes time. Consensus is expensive and slow. When speed is the priority, there’s no incentive to improve or invest in the shared system.

Most of us are still running product teams on a model that was designed for a problem we don’t have.

Accumulated thoughts and ideas about AI since the launch of ChatGPT in November 2022.

On rational thinking, taking action, and the courage to choose.

If AI users are becoming 10x more productive, skeptics might reasonably ask: where are all the apps?

When the work you love goes away.

Modern software feels identical because we prioritize speed over craft.

Why UX must move beyond efficiency to address systemic consequences.

Intellectual property theft on an obscene scale; but law is something that is carved and grown as needed by forces of power.