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tonsky.me

Needy programs

We used to use software; now software started to use us.

chrisloy.dev

The AI coding trap

Software development is fundamentally a practice of problem-solving, and so, most of the work is done in your head.

doc.cc

To grow, we must forget… but now AI remembers everything

AI’s infinite memory could endanger how we think, grow, and imagine. And we can do something about it.

uxdesign.cc

Bridging product design and AI thinking

The shift in product design with the advent of AI and a potential generative experiential future.

longform.asmartbear.com

Mission, vision, poTAYto, poTAHto

Mission, vision, purpose, BHAG. Are they useful north stars, or academic nonsense?

ethanmarcotte.com

Against the protection of stocking frames

“Artificial intelligence” is a failed technology. It’s time we described it that way.

chrbutler.com

The fundamentals problem

Anyone can make something that looks designed, but that doesn’t mean that design has happened.

alearningaday.blog

Everything is television

How the cause for the global decline in intelligence could be attributed to the fact that we now get to carry this box in our pocket.

vsanchezgomez.substack.com

We’ve all bought into technosolutionism, but we can opt out

Dismantling a culture that idolizes privately owned tech as a method of social progress.

world.hey.com

When design drives behavior

In some cases, design is what something looks like. In other cases, design is how it works. But the most interesting is when design changes behavior.

drobinin.com

Designing software for things that rot

Why building for rot is nothing like building happy-path apps.

frankchimero.com

Beyond the machine

Frank Chimero is back again with one of the most spectactular pieces of design writing I've read in a while.

anildash.com

The majority AI view

We're in an unusual situation where the most common opinion about AI within the tech industry is barely ever mentioned.

yusufaytas.com

Most of what we call progress

Reflections on why good judgment outlasts tools, and simplicity always wins.

rosswintle.uk

Software can be finished

You probably don’t want to build “finished software”. But what can we learn by thinking about it as a concept?

uxdesign.cc

The “£532,000” dot job

Why did a tiny logo change cost GOV.UK so much?

phirephoenix.com

Choosing friction

Convenience is all destination and no journey.

suffsyed.com

Designers have to move from the surface to the substrate

Designers once controlled 85% of UX through UI and interactions. Now, with intelligence moving beneath the surface, that control has collapsed to 5%.

mechanicalsurvival.com

Team dynamics after AI

So much of the discourse around AI assumes an inevitability to adoption, seeing quality as the only barrier to that.

bharath.sh

Vercel vs Cloudflare: two philosophies of building for developers

Neutral observations on the Vercel vs Cloudflare race to win the edge and developer mindshare.