
50 Years of Thinking Different
Read a letter from CEO Tim Cook as he reflects on 50 Years of Apple.
apple.com

Jack Dorsey Says Block Employees Now Bring Prototypes, Not Slides | Ceowire
Block CEO Jack Dorsey says employees build prototypes instead of slide decks for meetings, joining Bezos and Jobs in the anti-PowerPoint movement.
ceowire.co

The Creative Infinite
I want to set aside the usual conversations — IP concerns, job displacement, college kids lazy term papers. All of that is real, valid, and concerns around it all are shared by me. But here I want to focus on this fact: never before in human history has it been possible for anyone to simply ask for something to exist, and then it just…exists. Where the inputs can be anything, the outputs can be anything, and the whole process can be repeated, iterated, combined, translated, and chained together indefinitely. I found myself using the phrase "the Creative Infinite" when I'm talking about AI as a design material. I keep coming back to it because I don't think we've fully grasped what this technology actually is, what it can do, and what it means for human cre
bradfrost.com

How Autonomous Agents Will Transform Legal | Harvey
Autonomous agents are transforming engineering. Legal is next.
harvey.ai

From Hierarchy to Intelligence
How Block is using AI to eliminate hierarchical bottlenecks, building the first company organized as intelligence rather than hierarchy.
block.xyz

From addiction to agency: taking advantage of dopamine’s plasticity window
Why cravings are a blessing not a curse
hereisyourbrain.substack.com

Your sign-up form is a weapon | Bytemash
How bots used our sign-up and forgot password pages to bomb real people's inboxes, and what we did to stop it. A practical guide to subscription bombing for founders and developers who think CAPTCHA is an "I'll do it later" task.
bytemash.net

What is an LLM agent? A developer's guide - Vercel
Learn how LLM agents work, the frameworks for building them, and the production challenges you need to solve before shipping.
vercel.com

The curse of the cursor – Unsung
The Parc mouse cursor appearance was done (actually by me) because in a 16x16 grid of one-bit pixels (what the Alto at Parc used for a cursor) this gives you a nice arrowhead if you have one side of the arrow vertical and the other angled (along with other things there, I designed and made many of the initial bitmap fonts). Then it stuck, as so many things in computing do.
unsung.aresluna.org

Claude Code Unpacked
What actually happens when you type a message into Claude Code? The agent loop, 40+ tools, multi-agent orchestration, and unreleased features, mapped from source.
ccunpacked.dev

How to Make AI Serve the Public - One Project
Rethinking AI power: why the public must govern the systems shaping our lives.
oneproject.org

Fedware: 13 Government Apps That Spy Harder Than the Apps They Ban
The White House app ships with a sanctioned Chinese tracking SDK, the FBI app serves ads, and FEMA wants 28 permissions to show you weather alerts.
sambent.com

The Trust Wall: Why AI’s Next Billion Users: Will Come Through Trust Networks
Lessons from YouTube’s Global Expansion
a16z.news

Forget your “lovable” products; the real leverage point was always learning.
Creating the products and services we always wanted to build was never about changing the definition. It was always about learning early so…
uxdesign.cc

What AI exposes about design
What we lost when design became mainly UI, and what AI gives us the chance to reclaim
uxdesign.cc
Sorry, designers, we don’t decide the future of design
From making things to deciding things — how AI is forcing a renegotiation of what being a designer actually means.
uxdesign.cc

The design engineer symptom: what a rising job title reveals
Trying to define Design Engineering today, and why the confusion around it turned out to matter.
uxdesign.cc

MD UI: a Typeface for Interfacing
The process behind MD UI, a typeface that projects the International Typographic Style one step into the future. A neo-grotesque fine-tuned for maximum performance at every scale.
mass-driver.com

How we use AI at HEX — Ayush Soni
A few weeks ago, we launched a new brand for Cotool (cotool.ai), an agentic security platform. Half of the assets on their site were generated by a tool we built ourselves: a vibe-coded web app that maps any image or text onto the dithering system we designed. We made it in a day, and spent another few days tweaking, testing, and expanding.
x.com

Aposto | Haritası olmayan bir eşik: Orta yaş deneyimleri nasıl değişiyor?
Daha önce tanımadığım üç kişiyle bir odadaydım. Her biri, benim de iyi bildiğim bir ruh hâlini ifade ediyordu: "Eskiden herkes bana 'ne kadar şanslısın' derdi," dedi 47 yaşın...
aposto.com

Best MCP Servers for Claude Code: Replace Your Workflow, Keep Your Brain
Research, sell, build, publish, debug — without breaking your chain of thought.
buildtolaunch.substack.com

Yapay Zekâ ve Yaratıcılar: Candaş Şişman • Bigumigu
Çok disiplinli sanatçı Candaş Şişman, yapay zekâyı yalnızca üretimi hızlandıran bir araç olarak değil, düşünceyi genişleten, olasılıkları çoğaltan bir yaratıcı ortak olarak görüyor.
bigumigu.com
Coinbase’s bet on agent-first development
Chintan Turakhia is the Head of Engineering for Base App and leads AI acceleration within Coinbase. Over the past year, he’s been pushing agents deeper into every layer of product development. By early 2026, he felt something had shifted underneath them. Agents had become genuinely capable, and the workflows his team had built around the previous generation of tools were already holding them back. We spoke with Chintan about how he got there, and what he did next.
linear.app

A human approach to Agentic AI. One person. One text file. Five agents.
How I built my own AI team with nothing but text files, a conversation in Claude Cowork, and a lot of character.
christinevallaure.substack.com

What Is Practical AI Building?
The shift from AI user to AI builder isn’t about learning more tools. Here’s what it really looks like, and why your existing expertise is already the starting point.
buildtolaunch.substack.com

There are only two paths left for software | Andreessen Horowitz
Grow 10% or earn 40%, no middle path is left
a16z.com

What 81,000 people want from AI
Last December, tens of thousands of Claude users around the world had a conversation with our AI interviewer to share how they use AI, what they dream it could make possible, and what they fear it might do.
anthropic.com
From zero to a RAG system: successes and failures | Andros Fenollosa
A few months ago I was tasked with creating an internal tool for the company's engineers: a Chat that used a local LLM. Nothing extraordinary so far.
en.andros.dev

I built an AI research tool to study Substack creators I admire. Here’s what 3,000 notes show.
The most-posted format turns out to be the worst performer. Five data-backed patterns from notes across 9 AI and tech creators.
buildtolaunch.substack.com

Jury finds Meta and Google negligent in social media harms trial
The jury ordered the companies to pay $6 million in damages over defective design. The landmark verdict may influence the outcome of 2,000 other pending lawsuits.
npr.org

Chat SDK brings agents to your users - Vercel
Chat SDK is a unified TypeScript library for building chat bots that work across Slack, Discord, Teams, and more from a single codebase. Write once, deploy everywhere.
vercel.com

Resend adapter for Vercel Chat SDK
The official Resend adapter for Vercel Chat SDK turns email into a first-class channel for AI agents.
resend.com

Aggregation Theory
The disruption caused by the Internet in industry after industry has a common theoretical basis described by Aggregation Theory.
stratechery.com

A Small Figma Update and a Big Signal for SaaS
Why a small product update reflects a much larger industry shift.
metedata.substack.com

Thoughts on slowing the fuck down
It's been about a year since coding agents appeared on the scene that could actually build you full projects. There were precursors like Aider and early Cursor, but they were more assistant than agent. The new generation is enticing, and a lot of us have spent a lot of free time building all the projects we always wanted to build but never had time to.
mariozechner.at

I tried to prove I'm not AI. My aunt wasn't convinced
I asked experts if I'm real. Bad news. Even my aunt wasn't sure if I was a deepfake. AI is so convincing that a sitting prime minister struggled to prove he's alive. You might be next.
bbc.com

The uncomfortable truth that will always haunt the Ramones: ‘They sold more T-shirts than records’
It’s been 50 years since the debut album of the group that invented punk, although their legacy in style and merchandising eclipsed their actual success on stage
english.elpais.com

Issue tracking is dead – Linear
The next era of product development is built on context and agency. Here's how Linear is evolving. And what we're launching today.
linear.app

When Shipping Software Becomes Too Easy
AI is changing product development. When building becomes effortless, the real constraint is no longer code. It’s clarity, product judgment, and knowing when the right decision is not to ship yet.
blog.mozilla.ai

Modal vs. Separate Page: UX Decision Tree — Smashing Magazine
How to choose between modals and pages, when to avoid modals, and how to determine the right level of interruption or navigation. Brought to you by Smart Interface Design Patterns, a **friendly video course on UX** and design patterns by Vitaly.
smashingmagazine.com