What speed is doing to my expectations, my attention and the case for startup funding.

On inheriting my mum’s sentences, and watching them read as a machine’s.

Is AI as interesting as what it helps you do? I don’t think it is, and I mean that as a compliment.

How the design industry built the infrastructure of sameness, and called it best practice.

Why reasonable explanations are one of the easiest ways to avoid changing anything.

When numbers do not match the fear, and where fear should be aimed.

With AI tooling, code being the source of truth just makes sense.

And hurt people hurt people.

Or, perhaps the problem isn’t that AI has broken code review, maybe it’s that we’ve been using code review to solve the wrong problems

Debunking AI apocalypse hype and exposing CEO calls for open-source bans as self-serving tactics to protect corporate moats.

Dario Amodei proposes a three-step framework for AI companies to slow capability progress to ensure safety systems.

Exploring how to measure code sloppiness, why correct code can still erode a codebase, and why human intuition and taste still matter.

Work can look finished without being understood. That uncertainty erodes trust, slows reviews, and leaves colleagues doing the missing work.

OpenAI and Anthropic describe agents reaching real systems during evaluations. The capability is here. So is the work of containing it.

How agentic interfaces are changing what designers control, from interactions to agency, orchestration and attention.

She works three days a week. She’s still burnt out. When rest doesn’t fix the exhaustion, the workload was never the problem.

Shared design components aren’t enough to ensure a seamless product experience. Can designers create consistency by embracing simplicity?

Online used to be a place you could leave.

If the world takes the right steps, AI will be a force for good and leave everyone better off.

A quick note about future of computing and indieweb.