ai
agents
The Shape of the Thing
Ethan Mollick notes that AI has begun to unlock radical changes in the shape of work. What that shape will ultimately become is uncertain—which means now is the moment to influence it.
ai
Charlie's Fake Videos for AI Literacy
The banking app launched a fun and smart campaign to educate about the risks of deepfake scams.
workflow
The Cascade Effect in Context-Based Design Systems
TJ Pitre explains how to bake context into your design system, which pays dividends in AI-powered automation but also next-generation Sentient Design experiences.
ai
Boring Is Good
Scott Jenson suggests AI is likely to be more useful for “boring” tasks than for fancy outboard brains that do all our thinking for us.
ai
The 28 AI Tools I Wish Existed
Sharif Shameem pulled together a wishlist of fun ideas for AI-powered applications.
apple
How Developers Are Using Apple's Local AI Models with iOS 26
TechCrunch gathered a collection of apps that are using Apple’s on-device models to provide casual intelligence that’s free, easy, and priveate to the user.
ai
AI Will Happily Design the Wrong Thing for You
Anton Sten: While AI hardly created the problem of ill-considered products, it will certainly accelerate them.
ai
LLMs Get Lost In Multi-Turn Conversation
A research paper finds that the reliability of large language models plummet the longer a conversation continues.
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.