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davesresearch.com

Self-fulfilling projects

The projects that defy clarity and specificity.

chrbutler.com

Cynicism is a luxury; hope is a necessity.

One’s ability to ignore politics is a product of functional system that shares your worldview.

addyosmani.com

The orchestration tax is you

More agents running doesn’t mean more of you available—your cognitive bandwidth doesn’t parallelize.

bernste.in

Everyone’s a thought leader. Almost no one is thinking.

Thought leadership got cheap. Thinking didn’t.

crookedtimber.org

The text is not the product

Texts as products, or texts as means to something very different.

terrygodier.com

The boring internet

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.

nooneshappy.com

Appearing productive in the workplace

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

mattstromawn.com

Design from the inside

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

linear.app

Output isn’t design

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

permissionless.krispuckett.com

Field notes from the in-between

What happens when a designer stops waiting.

ky.fyi

Do I belong in tech anymore?

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

karlkoch.me

On the right tool for the job

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

samhenri.gold

Thoughts and feelings around Claude Design

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

mattstromawn.com

Expansion artifacts

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

medium.com

What Claude Design actually changes for designers

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

marginalia.nu

AI makes you boring

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

daverupert.com

When moving fast, talking is the first thing to break

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.

matthiasott.com

Design and engineering, as one

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

lzon.ca

The first 40 months of the AI era

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

doc.cc

Perspective

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