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Introducing Structured Outputs in the API
The more that AI models can reliably return structured data, the more we can design interoperable and radically adaptive experiences with them.
music
Why I Finally Quit Spotify
A personal account of how algorithmic personalization can lead to a creeping blandness and a "corporation-centered” experience.
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AI Is Confusing — Here’s Your Cheat Sheet
A helpful glossary of fundamental AI terms from The Verge.
sentient design
Turning the Tables on AI
Oliver Reichenstein shares strategies for using AI to elevate your writing instead of handing the job entirely to the robots.
ai
Doctors Use A.I. Chatbots to Help Fight Insurance Denials
Is this an example of tech leveling the playing field, or part of an AI-weaponized red-tape arms race that no one can win?
ai
Still Trying to Sound Smart About AI? The Boss Is, Too
Execs feel pressure to move on AI, even though most admit they don’t have confidence in how to use it.
apple
WWDC 2024: Apple Intelligence
John Gruber shares an under-reported tidbit from Apple’s many “Apple Intelligence” reveals.
sentient design
Illuminate
This Google project uses AI to generate NPR-style podcast conversations from academic papers.
ai
I Will F***ing Piledrive You If You Mention AI Again
Has breathless AI mania primed you for a ragey rant about overhyped technology and huckster pitchmen? Nikhil Suresh has you covered.
ai
We Need To Talk About Our AI Fetish
In a powerful and historically grounded essay, Jeremy Wagstaff asks that we not abdicate the vision for AI solely to the companies who stand to gain from it.
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John Maeda: Josh Clark's 2019 talk on Design and AI
Design legend John Maeda discovers some old gold from Big Medium’s Josh Clark.
ai
Looking for AI Use Cases
What do we do with this thing? Benedict Evans writes that our imaginations haven’t quite caught up with truly useful applications for LLMs.
ai
AI + Design: Figma Users Tell Us What’s Coming Next
A survey of Figma users indicates that AI is making its way into most companies’ product pipelines, but the solutions they’re shipping are… uninspired.
sentient design
This is the Moment to Reinvent Your Product
Will you use AI to get better/faster at things you already do, or will you invent new ways to do things that weren’t previously possible?
sentient design
The 3 Capabilities Designers Need To Build for the AI Era
Designers have an opportunity to expand their roles and perspective in AI strategy, interaction design, and model design. How will we respond to the new problems and emerging interaction models that AI invites us to address and explore?
ai
A Coder Considers the Waning Days of the Craft
Writer and programmer James Somers shares his personal journey discovering just how good AI is at writing code—and what this might mean both individually and for the industry.
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Can AI Bridge the Dev/Design Gap?
Big Medium’s Kevin Coyle explores how AI can improve collaboration between product management, frontend and backend development, and design. Kevin shows how AI can bring us together instead of replacing or isolating us.