We become what we behold
Weekly curated resources for designers — thinkers and makers.
“The sentiment of the change brought on by AI has never been more relevant than it is now. Technology has always accelerated, but it feels like we are at an inflection point. Where AI business innovation, AI automation, and AI-driven technological disruption are shaping us faster than we can behold. Whether you like it or not, our tools are shaping us, and we are complicit in their methods and tricks.”
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Editor picks
The trust-latency gap →
Why the future of UX is intentionally slower.Autopilot, agentic AI, and the dangers of imperfect metaphors →
The words we use have power and meaning.AI, UX, and the factory model →
Strategic orchestration and the industrialisation of user experience.
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Make me think
When moving fast, talking is the first thing to break →
“When you make speed and “moving fast” the biggest priority on a project or in an organization, the first thing to breakdown is talking to each other. Talking takes time. Consensus is expensive and slow. In a pressurized environment there’s no time to schedule calls, get input from subject matter experts, or resolve key differences of opinion.”One developer, two dozen agents, zero alignment →
“At this point, in early 2026, all coding agents are designed as single player experiences. But building software isn’t a single player game. [Here] I talk through why we need collaborative AI engineering tools and show how we’re exploring the problem.”Design and engineering, as one →
“The only problem is that building complex digital products is nothing like shovelling pig iron more efficiently at Bethlehem Steel. Yet over a hundred and twenty years later, most of us are still running product teams on a model that was designed for a problem we don’t have.”
Little gems this week
I watched the Manosphere doc; here is how design is making things worse →
Oh, but there’s one more thing →
Notes from the people building your future →
Tools and resources
Your AI agent doesn’t know your product →
How to feed AI coding agents.Folder instructions →
Instructions for system-level AI.Designing haptics →
How to build a consistent cross-platform solution.
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