UX

Bringing AI coding tools into today’s software ecosystem is like bringing a talented sous chef to a food court. If you’re used to purchasing meals from a menu, a skilled chef can’t do much to help you. Similarly, if you’re using closed-source software from an app store, an AI coding assistant can’t do very much to help you as a user. To fully take... See more

The obvious outcome is that a smaller team of human designers is governing a system of systems, curating the brand, designing and developing core elements of the product experience, all while automating the rest to agents in a synthetic design process.

As this happens and all brands optimize for efficiency, competing on process and execution,... See more

For each case where we’ve applied branching to a new domain (writing, diagrams, and spreadsheets), we’ve quickly found useful ideas for applying them. This suggests branching is a powerful general primitive for all kinds of creative work.

The Internet is still a place, but it’s been overdeveloped and undergoverned. Like cities that have prioritized cars over people, visiting the internet now entails controlled apps and search engines, designed for extraction. There’s nowhere to rest because the benches are covered in spikes. All we can do is sink into the feed and run along the... See more