ai
agents
Is there a Half-Life for the Success Rates of AI Agents?
Toby Ord finds that an AI agent’s chance of success drops off exponentially the longer a task takes.
seo
AI Has Upended the Search Game
The Wall Street Journal: “Websites in general will evolve to serve primarily as data sources for bots that feed LLMs.”
ai
Values in the Wild
Anthropic researchers studied the “values” of Claude and how they manifest in actual conversation with users.
design
Welcome To the Era of MEH
Michal Malewicz explores what happens when AI commoditizes core design skills like research, craft, and taste—a race to the bottom. (But there’s an exciting way to move forward.)
design
Redesigning Design, the Cliff in Front of Us All
Greg Storey exhorts designers to recognize that it’s a new era, like it or not. Don’t look back, he says—reinvent.
chat
How AI and Human Behaviors Shape Psychosocial Effects of Chatbot Use
A study by MIT Media Lab finds that heavy use of chatbots correlates to loneliness, emotional dependence, and other negative social impacts.
algorithms
TikTok Will Never Die
TikTok might not be chit-chatting generative AI, writes Damon Beres, but it’s the most widely and deeply impactful AI application we’ve seen so far.
design
2025: The Year Ahead
AI shifts from tool to design material. Product design moves from consolidation to innovation. Generative AI loses its sparkle. Sentient Design comes to the fore. Josh Clark unpacks the signals reshaping design, strategy, and creativity in 2025.
sentient design
MS Copilot Flying Straight Into the Mountain
Vaclav Vincalek ponders what happens when anyone can casually create agents and set them loose.
sentient design
When Combinations of Humans and A.I. are Useful
A research study raises challenging questions about collaborative AI interfaces, including the value of “human in the loop” interfaces and explanations of AI logic and confidence scores.
sentient design
This AI Pioneer Thinks AI Is Dumber Than a Cat
AI pioneer Yann LeCun reminds us that just because LLMs are good at language doesn’t mean that they’re smart.
ai
Beware of Botshit
Botshit is hallucinated content that makes its way into human communications or screws up decision making.
sentient design
A Radically Adaptive World Model
A research project generates a world based on Counter-Strike, frame by frame in response to your actions. What happens when you apply the same thinking to the design of websites, dashboards, or canvas apps?
sentient design
Exploring the AI Solution Space
Jorge Arango explores what it means for machine intelligence to be “used well” and, in particular, questions the current fascination with general-purpose, open-ended chat interfaces.
sentient design
Introducing Generative Canvas
Salesforce is piloting a radically adaptive, AI-mediated dashboard for CRM users. Look out, enterprise, here comes Sentient Design.
ai
Change Blindness
Ethan Mollick shares striking visual reminders of how far generative AI has come in just 21 months.
ai
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.