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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.

answer.ai

So where are all the AI apps?

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

seangoedecke.com

I don’t know if my job will still exist in ten years

When the work you love goes away.

lmnt.me

Have we forgotten how to design?

Modern software feels identical because we prioritize speed over craft.

jonkolko.com

A design turn

Why UX must move beyond efficiency to address systemic consequences.

blog.fallible.net

Why we hate AI

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

ratfactor.com

A programmer’s loss of identity

That lost identity was "computer programmer" and it was arguably one of the biggest.

jonnyburch.com

Life after Figma is coming (and it will be glorious)

As code becomes source of truth, design tools become interfaces on code, not the other way round.

ilyabirman.net

Design is dead, it’s all evolution now

There’s no design in digital products anymore. It’s been replaced by evolution.

quinnkeast.com

What, then, are we paying for?

Software is problem ownership.

chrbutler.com

Progress without disruption

There’s nothing about progress that inherently requires disruption—except our inability to cooperate for stability.

terrygodier.com

Phantom obligation

Why RSS readers look like email clients, and what that’s doing to us.

itsnicethat.com

Faking ‘realness’ on a computer doesn’t get us anywhere new

What does “analogue” actually mean when most things are made, shared, and consumed digitally?

randsinrepose.com

Sometimes your job is to stay the hell out of the way

A take on the mythical 10x engineer, except that they aren’t a myth.